Program

Times in the schedule are in Japan Standard Time (GMT+9:00).

Day 1 (9th, Nov.)

6:00–6:30	Welcome
6:30-7:20	Keynote 1	Ghost Engineering: Technologies for designing ourselves via embodied interaction Prof. Takuji Narumi, The University of Tokyo Session chair: Hirotaka Osawa Session co-chair: Kohei Ogawa
7:20–7:35	Yoga Break
7:35–8:50	Session 1	Telepresence Session chair: Eduardo Sandoval Session co-chair: Itaru Kuramoto Kazuaki Tanaka, Reo Mayuzumi, Tomomi Takahashi, Sho Takaki, Natsuki Oka. Robot Mediated Handholding Combined with a Mobile Video Call Makes the Users Feel Nearer and Closer Ayaka Ueda, Hamed Mahzoon, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro. Expression of Robot’s Emotion and Intention Utilizing Physical Positioning in Conversation Pourya Aliasghari, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn. How do Different Modes of Verbal Expressiveness of a Student Robot Impact Human Teachers’ Intention to Use the Robot?
8:50–15:30	Online Video Presentations	You can play the video presentations by yourselves
15:30–16:00	Social Event 1	Icebreaking Japan QUIZ and  Yoga Break
16:00–17:10	Poster 1	Poster 1-1 (core time: 16:00-16:35) Marked with 1 Balloon hai24p Put that Away and Talk to me – the Effects of Smartphone induced Ostracism while Interacting with an Intelligent Virtual Agent by Elisabeth Ganal hai25p When No One is Watching: Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand Situated Social Robot Use in Healthcare by Casey C Bennett hai27p Trust, but Verify: Autonomous Robot Trust Modeling in Human-Robot Collaboration by Basel Alhaji hai28p Strategic Recommendation in Short-Horizon MABs by Or Zipori hai29p Towards an Adaptive Game to Promote Public Engagement by Muneeb Ahmad hai30p Towards a Cognitive Framework for Multimodal Person Recognition in Multiparty HRI by Jonas Gonzalez hai31p Internal-state-based parameterized model of robot’s touching manners based on subjective evaluation by Tomoko Yonezawa hai32p Conveying the Perception of Humor Arising from Ambiguous Grammatical Constructs in Human-Chatbot Interaction by Juan Carlos Farah hai33p HMI-based Communication Methods for Negotiation between a Manually Driven Vehicle Driver and an Autonomous Vehicle in an Ambiguous Traffic Scenario by Yang Li hai34p Younger and Older Adults’ Perceptions on Role, Behavior, Goal and Recovery Strategies for Managing Breakdown Situations in Human-Robot Dialogues by Maitreyee Maitreyee hai35p Why Do We Delegate to Intelligent Virtual Agents? Influencing Factors on Delegation Decisions by Ningyuan Sun Poster 1-2 (core time: 16:35-17:10) Marked with 2 Balloons hai36p On the Effect of User Faults on her Perception of Agent’s Faults in Collaborative Settings by Reut Asraf hai38p Agent’s Internal State Expression Related to Desire and Suppress Based on Behavior and Physiological Expression by Naoto Yoshida hai39p Crowd-Worker Skill Improvement with AI Co-Learners by Takumi Nakayama hai41p Perceptions of Anthropomorphism in a Chatbot Dialogue: The Role of Animacy and Intelligence by Guy Laban hai42p Cognitive Models Leading to Behavior-Reading in a Card Game by Atsushi Hosokawa hai43p Initial Assessment of Job Interview Training System using Multimodal Behavior Analysis by Nao Takeuchi hai44p Enhancing sense of attention by drawing the user’s face in the co-communicator’s thought bubble in the video conferencing system by Yuta Nitada hai20p Towards the Applicability of the Robot in the Role of an Invigilator by Muneeb Ahmad hai22p Exposure to robotic virtual agent affects adoption of intentional stance by Lorenzo Parenti hai23p Inferring Human Beliefs and Desires from their Actions and the Content of their Utterances by Yuta Watanabe
17:10–17:35	Yoga Break
17:35–18:50	Session 2	Behavior Design and Model Session chair: Naoto Yoshida Session co-chair:Jean Botev Yu Liu, Gelareh Mohammadi, Yang Song, Wafa Johal. Speech-based Gesture Generation for Robots and Embodied Agents: A ScopingReview Diogo Rato, Marta Couto, Rui Prada. Fitting the room: social motivations for context-aware agents Masanari Ichikawa, Takafumi Sakamoto, Yugo Takeuchi. Proposing an Inferential Model for Indebtedness Arising from Agents’ Helping Behavior Using Bayesian Model Eshtiak Ahmed, Aino Ahtinen. Design Implications for a Virtual Language Learning Companion Robot: Considering the Appearance, Interaction and Rewarding Behavior

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Day 2 (10th, Nov.)

6:00–6:50	Keynote 2	Material mind and enrobotment: living humans vs robots Prof. Irini Giannopulu, Institute of Clinical Research and Technological Innovation, RCIT & Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW
6:50-7:15	Yoga Break
7:15–8:25	Poster 2	Poster2-1 (core time: 7:15-7:50) Marked with 1 Balloon hai01p Development of an Evaluation System for Outdoor Advertising Using Smartphone Eye Tracking by Takuya Soejima hai02p A Study of Voice Comments in Video Posting Services by Kazuya Tamura hai03p A Proposal for an Automatic Door Opening and Closing Interface Based on Speech Recognition and Pose Estimation by Tatsuki Terashima hai04p “How to best say it?” : Translating Directives in Machine Language into Natural Language in the Blocks World by Sujeong Kim hai05p Power of Gijinka: Designing Virtual Teachers for Ecosystem Conservation Education by Tetsuya Matsui hai06p The Effect of the Repetitive Utterances Complexity on User’s Perceived Empathy and Desire to Continue Dialogue by a Chat-oriented Dialogue System by Jie YANG hai07p A Subtle Effect of Inducing Positive Words by Playing Web-Based Word Chain Game by Naoki Osaka hai08p Analysis of Role-Based Gaze Behaviors and Gaze Aversions, and Implementation of Robot’s Gaze Control for Multi-party Dialogue by Taiken Shintani hai09p Examining the factors that make co-watching with agents effective by Masaki Abe hai10p Designing a Chatbot System for Recommending College Students to Counseling and Collecting Dialogue Data by Kento Yasuda hai13p Identifying User Personas for Engagement with a COVID-19 Health Service Delivery Relational Agent by Ashraful Islam Poster2-2 (core time: 7:50-8:25) Marked with 2 Balloons hai14p Impression evaluation of interaction among robots based on collision avoidance behaviors by Fumio Hamanaka hai15p Tele-Nininbaori: Intentional Harmonization in Teleoperation Avatar with Simultaneous Operation by Two-persons by Hirotaka Osawa hai16p Improving Engagement in Virtual Experiences by Inducing Intentional Stance Based on Based on the Retention of Temporal-Continuous User’s Information by Yoshimasa Ohmoto hai17p Study of Interviewee’s Impression Made by Interviewer Wearing Digital Full-face Mask Display During Recruitment Interview by Kureha Noguchi hai18p Japanese Dictionary for Sentiment Analysis of Counseling Text by Masataka Nakayama hai19p Smart Agents and Devices of Today and Tomorrow: Surveying Use and Desires by Samantha Reig hai21p Relationship between Users’ Trust in Robots and Belief in Paranormal Entities by Tetsuya Matsui hai26p The Effect of Robot Decision Making on Human Perception of a Robot in a Collaborative Task – A Remote Study by Ali Noormohammadi Asl hai37p “I See You!”: A Design Framework for Cues about Agent Visual Perception from a Thematic Analysis of Video Games by Matthew Rueben hai40p Constellation: a Multi-User Interface for Remote Drone Tours by Jiannan Li
8:25–8:40	Special Help desk for Audience
8:40–15:30	Online Video Presentations	You can play the video presentations by yourselves
15:30–16:00	Social Event 2	Birds of Feather and Fast preview of 1-min videos
16:00–17:15	Session 3	Emotion and Personality Session Chairs Tomoko Yonezawa Session co-chair: Casey Bennett Chihiro Takayama, Mitsuhiro Goto, Shinichirou Eitoku, Ryo Ishii, Hajime Noto, Shiro Ozawa, Takao Nakamura, How People Distinguish Individuals from their Movements: Toward the Realization of Personalized Agents Ryo Yoneda, Junya Morita, The Internal State Mediating Between Decision-Making and Arousal Tomomi Takahashi, Kazuaki Tanaka, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Natsuki Oka, Melodic Emotional Expression Increases Ease of Talking to Spoken Dialog Agents Yucheng Jin, Li Chen, Wanling Cai, Pearl Pu, Key Qualities of Conversational Recommender Systems: From Users’ Perspective
17:15–17:30	Yoga Break
17:30–18:45	Session 4	Chatbots and Conversational Agents Session chair: Tomoko Koda Session co-chair: Muneeb Ahmad Shashank Ahire, Aaron Priegnitz, Oguz Önbas, Michael Rohs, Wolfgang Nejdl, How Compatible is Alexa with Dual Tasking? – Towards Intelligent Personal Assistants for Dual-Task Situations Emma Mainza Chilufya, Mattias Arvola, Conceptual Designing of a Virtual Receptionist: Remote Desktop Walkthrough and Bodystorming in VR Walid El Hefny, Alia El Bolock, Cornelia Herbert, Slim Abdennadher, Applying the Character-Based Chatbots Generation Framework in Education and Healthcare Halim-Antoine Boukaram, Micheline Ziadee, Majd Sakr,  Mitigating the Effects of Delayed Virtual Agent Response Time Using Conversational Fillers

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Day 3 (11th, Nov.)

6:00–7:15	Session 5	Driving Session chair: Drazen Brscic Session co-chair: Kazuaki Tanaka Rachel Phinnemore, Gabriele Cimolino, Pritam Sarkar, Ali Etemad, T.C. Nicholas Graham, Happy Driver: Investigating the Effect of Mood on Preferred Style of Driving in Self-Driving Cars Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser L. Azad, Kerstin Dautenhahn, What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Takahiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Kanamori, Yuki Yoshihara, Kazuhiro Fujikake, Should a driving support agent provide explicit instructions to the user? Video-based study focused on politeness strategies
7:15-7:35	Yoga Break
7:35–8:50	Session 6	Group Collaboration Session chair: Kazunori Terada Session co-chair: Moojan Ghafurian Naveen Ram, Tanay Gummadi, Rahul Bhethanabotla, Richard J. Savery, Gil Weinberg, Say What? Collaborative Pop Lyric Generation Using Multitask Transfer Learning Quentin Roy, Moojan Ghafurian, Wei Li, Jesse Hoey, Users, Tasks, and Conversational Agents: A Personality Study Armel Ayimdji Tekemetieu, Helene Pigot, Carolina Bottari, Mireille Gagnon-Roy, Sylvain Giroux, Modeling an Adaptive Resident-System interaction for cognitive assistance in Ambient Assisted Living Danielle Olson, Yan Xu, Building Trust Over Time in Human-Agent Relationships
8:50–15:30	Online Video Presentations	You can play the video presentations by yourselves
15:30–16:00	Social Event 3	Short-time and cocktail party for research discussion in random Zoom breakout rooms (small rooms)
16:00–17:15	Session 7	Trust and Persuasion Session chair: Martina Ruocco Session co-chair: Takuya Iwamoto Tomoyuki Ueda, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Cyberbullying mitigation by a proxy persuasion of a chat member hijacked by a chatbot Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Kotaro Nishi, Taishi Unokuchi, Daisuke Endo, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, The Effectiveness of Self-Recommending Agents in Advancing PurchaseBehavior Steps in Retail Marketing Kasper Hald, Katharina Weitz, Elisabeth André, Matthias Rehm, “An Error Occurred!” – Trust Repair With Virtual Robot Using Levels of Mistake Explanation Martina Ruocco, Wenxuan Mou, Angelo Cangelosi, Caroline Jay, Debora Zanatto, Theory of Mind Improves Human’s Trust in an Iterative Human-Robot Game
17:15–17:45	Closing / Award Ceremony