The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents
20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics



Volume 2


The second volume of the handbook starts with perspectives on human-agent interaction, examined from different angles such as interaction in social space, group interaction, or long-term interaction. It continues with an extensive overview summarizing research and systems of human–agent platforms, alongside with some of the major application areas of socially interactive agents such as education, aging support, autism and games, highlighting the benefits of SIAs to individuals and society. It concludes with a challenge discussion containing an interview with international experts of their field, discussing the major challenges SIA research is facing today, and pointing out potential future directions.


A digital version of volume 2 of the book can be purchased in the ACM digital library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3563659
The printed version can be purchased in  in different online bookstores, e.g. Amazon.
We are grateful to ACM for allowing us to share the preprints of the chapters.



Foreword
Ruth Aylett

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Preface
Birgit Lugrin


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PART IV Modelling Interactivity

Chapter 14  Interaction in Social Space  | 3

Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson


Chapter 15 Dialogue for Socially Interactive Agents | 45
David Traum


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Chapter 16 The Fabric of Socially Interactive Agents — Multimodal Interaction Architectures | 77
Stefan Kopp and Teena Hassan

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16_Architectures.pdf (2.42MB)
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Chapter 17 Multiparty Interaction Between Humans and Socially Interactive Agents | 113
Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vázquez, Christopher Peters, Fangkai Yang and Iolanda Leite


Chapter 18 Adaptive Artificial Personalities | 155
Kathrin Janowski Hannes Ritschel and Elisabeth André


Chapter 19 Long-term Interaction with Relational Socially Interactive Agents | 195
Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park and Ishaan Grover

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19_LongtermInteraction.pdf (8.55MB)
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19_LongtermInteraction.pdf (8.55MB)


Chapter 20 Platforms and Tools for Socially Interactive Agent Research and Development | 261
Arno Hartholt and Sharon Mozgai

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20_Platforms.pdf (4.17MB)
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Part V Areas of Application

 

Chapter 21 Pegagogical Agents | 307

H. Chad Lane and Noah L. Schroeder

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Chapter 22 Socially Interactive Agents as Peers | 331
Justine Cassell

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22_Peers.pdf (777.48KB)
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Chapter 23 Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging | 367
Moojan Ghafurian, John Edison Munoz Cardona, Jennifer Boger, Jesse Hoey and Kerstin Dautenhahn

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23_agingSupport.pdf (593.96KB)
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Chapter 24 Health-Related Applications of Socially Interactive Agents | 403
Timothy Bickmore

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Chapter 25 Autism and Socially Interactive Agents | 437
Jacqueline Nadel, Ouriel Grynszpan and Jean-Claude Martin

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25_autism.pdf (850.13KB)
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Chapter 26 Interactive Narrative and Story-telling | 463
Ruth Aylett

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Chapter 27 Socially Interactive Agents in Games | 493
Rui Prada and Diogo Rato

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Chapter 28 Serious Games with Socially Interactive Agents | 527
Patrick Gebhard, Dimitra Tzovaltzi, Tanja Schneeberger and Fabrizio Nunnari

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Challenge Discussion | 561

Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, Elisabeth André, Ruth Aylett, Timothy Bickmore, Cynthia Breazeal, Joost Broekens, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Jonathan Gratch, Stefan Kopp, Jacqueline Nadel, Ana Paiva and Agnieszka Wykowska