Workshop on Socially Intelligent Virtual Agents

Explore the cutting-edge field of socially intelligent virtual agents in this 3-hour workshop from IEEE VR 2022. Delve into innovative projects and emerging challenges in developing individualized, social human-agent relationships enabled by recent AI advancements. Learn about user-controlled avatars, conversational agents' functional aspects, and topics such as transformed social interaction, synchronization engines, and artificial elements. Examine research on hybrid technologies, motion capture, and MRI studies, while considering ethical issues and potential drawbacks. Gain insights from keynote speakers, participate in interactive discussions, and discover experimental setups and results that shape the future of virtual agent technology.

Introduction
Workshop Overview
Keynote Speaker
Background
Interaction
Reality
Hybrids
Transformed Social Interaction
Synchronization Engine
Input Types
End State
Artificial Elements
Synthesised Links
Looking away
Mimic
Blending
Machine Learning
Social Information Processing
Creating New Languages
Eye Contact
Grouping
Initial Evidence
Research Hybrid Technologies
Motion Capture
MRI Study
COVID Replication
Continuous Presence
Team
Questions
Adaptability
Potential drawbacks
Ethical issues
Impact on users sense of veracity
Short question
Short break
Virtual Agents
Experimental Setup
Experimental Results
Conclusions