This year, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling will take place at ICT. It aslo features a collaboration with the ninth edition of Intelligent …

The Art Exhibition of International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2016 is an annual juried showcase of new creative works that integrate digital technologies, interaction, …

IVA 2016 is the 16th congregation of an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent …

YRRSDS 2016 is an open forum for spoken dialog researchers to discuss their work and research interests. This is the 12th edition of the annual …

The SIGdial venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing …

Games have become a very important medium for education, therapy and entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters move around, objects are …

The USC Institute for Creative Technologies, ReD Associates, and Harvard Business Review invite you to a panel discussion about the power of a human-centered approach …

Emotion is important in motivated performance scenarios such as negotiations. But studying complex interpersonal tasks is difficult with existing behavioral science research methods because of …

“VR is back!”, and while for most this means head-mounted displays and fantasy imagery, collective displays and realworld imagery are untapped both as a new …

On Friday evening, conference participants from the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference can enjoy a tour and reception at the University of Southern California’s Institute …

12:00 – 1:00PM | USC ICT Theater Abstract: Virtual reality has typically been used to induce an illusory transformation of location. Instead of being in, …

Abstract: The field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) has successfully delivered techniques and systems to provide student-adaptive support for problem solving in variety of domains. …

WHAT: A screening and Q&A with the creators of Friends you Haven’t Met Yet, a documentary short film exploring issues of ethics and online privacy …

Abstract: Many problems in computer graphics and computer vision involve high-dimensional 3D-8D visual datasets. Real-time image synthesis with changing lighting and view is often accomplished …

Rene LaRose, director of the the NATO Science and Coordination Office, visited ICT along with John Tangney from the Office of Naval Research and Paul …

Abstract: A wide swath of multidisciplinary areas in autonomous multiagent systems benefit from modeling interacting agents. However, the space of candidate mental models is generally …

Please join us next Thursday September 12 at 2pm in the large 2nd floor Amphitheater for a special talk by a luminary of the Los …

Sergey Levine, a Ph.D. candidate from Stanford, speaks about character animation and machine learning. Applications include motion controllers, quasi-physics, path planning and gesturing.

Game Theory and Human Behavior addresses problems of global interest such as energy, healthcare, financial markets and security necessarily involve understanding and influencing the behavior …

War is perhaps one of the most challenging situations that a human being can experience. The physical, emotional, cognitive and psychological demands of a combat …

Tuesday, October 30 from 12:30-1:30 PM Introduction by Randy Hill Get into the Halloween spirit with a lunchtime book talk with science journalist and author …

Jacki Morie will be reporting on how we are making advances in using Virtual Worlds as advanced telehealth care through the TOPSS-VW Project at ICT.

View the Workshop Agenda here.

Dialogue act labels are being used to represent a higher level intention of utterances during human conversation (Stolcke et al., 2000). Automatic dialogue act recognition …

In this work we study the effectiveness of speaker adaptation for Dialogue Act recognition in multiparty meetings. First, we analyze idiosyncracy in dialogue verbal acts …

Organizing Committee: David Traum, Jens Edlund, Nigel Ward Background Natural Human dialogue (especially multiparty dialogue) contains many instances of more than one person talking at …

In the study of human face-to-face communication, the patterning of interlocutor actions and interactions, moment-by-moment, is a matter of great scientific interest; and predictive models …

The purpose of the immersive training program is to introduce Army trainers to engaging and relevant instructional technologies such as highly realistic, interactive games and …

A virtual world (VW) is a social virtual environment depicted by a rich graphical landscape, where visitors come together to interact. The inhabitants of a …

Intelligent robots of the future are going to need to know a lot of stuff. They are going to need to know how a power …

In this paper, we present considerations for natural language processing for a lifelong learning companion. In the context of these considerations, we review related work …

In the study of human face-to-face communication, the patterning of interlocutor actions and interactions, moment-by-moment, is a matter of great scientific interest; and predictive models …

Examples of FML in use ICT Stefan Kopp Hannes Vilhjálmsson In this paper I reviewed the functions I have used in the past and am …

This study investigates whether humans perceive a higher degree of social presence when interacting with an animated character that displays natural as opposed to no …

The workshop agenda was designed to begin the process of overcoming the bias implicit in past learning and adaptability research and practice. Of the ten …

The StoryBox Workshop was held at ICT’s McConnell Facility, with Jeff Wirth, designer of the StoryBox format, several interactors from Orlando and Los Angeles, and …

The Institute for Creative Technologies is organizing a small, invitation-only “Virtual Human School”, intended for graduate students, junior researchers and Army personnel. It is designed …

Grounding is the process of adding to the “Common Ground” between interacting participants. There have been several approaches to these issues, including computational models of …

PROCAMS attendees are invited to tour the USC ICT graphics lab. The PROCAMS workshop series serves as an annual gathering place for researchers and practitioners …

Other presenters include David Devault – Rutgers, David Herrera – UTEP, Raquel Fernandez – Stanford, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson – Goteborg Univeristy

From online text games to YouTube, ethnographic insights have empirically challenged common sense assumptions about mediated interaction. These common sense notions include: 1) anonymity is …

A microscope allows us to capture scenes that are quite different from those we experience in our daily lives. At the limit of the smallest …

Reid is a 3rd year computer science PhD student here at ICT, and will be giving a talk on the work he did as part …

The Transactional Emotions Workshop brought together psychologists and technologists interested in “transactional emotions,” meaning those emotions that arise from an interaction between individuals. Discussion topics …

The Theory of Mind Workshop brought together researchers from several relevant disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, neural science, linguistics and computer science to discuss a range …

CBR has been proposed as a knowledge light methodology for building knowledge-based systems where problem solving is accomplished by reusing past experiences instead of reasoning …

Internet weblogs provide a huge source of stories that can be used as a large corpus to learn statistical regularities of narrative text. In this …

Concerns over the environment, terrorism, ethnic violence and state disintegration have placed greater emphasis on exploring the possible connections between resource scarcity and inter-group violence. …

Semantically annotated corpora are intended to capture semantic relations among elements in a text, but it is not known how uniform human intuitions are about …

This talk focuses on statistical methods for learning models of users interacting with a dialogue system. I will show how dialogue management strategies can be …

It is widely accepted that active, cognitive processing during learning results in a robust representation of the target material. For example, self-explanation is an active, …

In asymmetric information environments, the deliberate military decision making processes (MDMP) with all their linearity assumptions are generally regarded as inadequate. Generating courses of action …

My primary area of research lies in understanding the impact of social conversational behaviors in human-virtual human interaction. Specifically, the goal of my work is …

Throughout its history, the field of computer graphics has been striving towards increased realism. This goal has traditionally been described by the notion of photorealism, …

Students use interactive learning environments in a considerable variety of ways. In this talk, I will present research on developing learning environments that can automatically …

The Interactive Story Architecture for Training (ISAT) is designed to create an engaging and individualized training environment. ISAT combines interactive drama and intelligent tutoring techniques …

When people interact with each other, it is common to see indications of acknowledgment given with a simple head gesture or explicit turn-taking with eye …

On Wednesday December 20th, Antonio and Hanna Damasio will be visiting the ICT. Antonio Damasio will be giving a talk in the 6th floor amphitheater …

Effective face-to-face conversations are highly interactive. Participants respond to each other, engaging in nonconscious behavioral mimicry and backchanneling feedback. Such behaviors produce a subjective sense …

The designers of virtual agents often draw on a large research literature in psychology, linguistics and human ethology to design embodied agents that can interact …

The pursuit of moving targets in real-time environments such as computer games and robotics presents several challenges to situated agents. A priori unknown state spaces …

Knowledge based systems are capable of answering questions that have elaborate contexts and require deep reasonings. Unlike information retrieval based question answering, knowledge based systems …

Temporal plans play an important role in many real world applications. In this talk I will present my work on generating temporal plans and reasoning …

Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and videoconferences. Similarly, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) …

Head pose and gesture offer several key conversational grounding cues and are used extensively inface-to-face interaction among people. In this talk, we investigate how dialog …

Commonsense reasoning is fundamental to high-level cognition. The event calculus, which is based on first-order logic, is an effective method for commonsense reasoning. It supports …

The pursuit of Artificial Intelligence—from robotics to natural language processing to automated learning—has been held back by the “brittleness bottleneck” caused by the need for …