Publications

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During the COVID, my research activities (and therefore my publication activities) have been strongly impacted by COVID, as for many women in the research world (Scientific articles on the decline of women’s research production during the coronavirus pandemic: The Conversation, Nature, Plos One).

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2020 – 2019 – 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 and before

2024

[journal] Interpretable Prediction of Brain Activity during Conversations from Multimodal Behavioral Signals.
Youssef Hmamouche, Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prévot et Thierry Chaminade
Plos One, March 2024

[journal] A multimodal model for predicting feedback position and type during conversation
Auriane Boudin, Roxane Bertrand, Stéphane Rauzy, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache
Speech Communication,Volume 159, 2024.

Impact of the Nonverbal Behavior of Virtual Audience on Users’ Perception of Social Attitudes
Marion Ristorcelli, Alexandre D’Ambra, Jean-marie Pergandi, Remy Casanova and Magalie Ochs
ACM International Conference on Advanced Visual Intercaes (AVI), Italy, 2024
25% acceptance rate for long research papers

The Distracted Ear: How Listeners Shape Conversational Dynamics
Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs and Philippe Blache
The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING) 2024

Be persuasive ! Automatic transformation of virtual agent’s head and facial behavior
Afef Cherni, Roxane Bertrand et Magalie Ochs
IEEE International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Feb. 2024

Cognitive Planning for Persuasive Multimodal Interaction
Emiliano Lorini, Magalie Ochs and Nicolas Sabouret
AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), 12th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems., May. 2024

2023

[journal] A Forum Theatre Corpus for Discrimination Awareness.
Magalie Ochs, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Alain Ghio, Carine Andre, Patrick Sainton, Emmanuel Ayad, Aurianne Boudin and Roxane Bertrand
Frontiers in Computer Science, in Press.

SMYLE: A new multimodal resource of talk-in-interaction including neuro-physiological signal.
Auriane Boudin, Roxane Bertrand, Stéphane Rauzy, Matthis Houlès, Thierry Legou, Magalie Ochs et Philippe Blache.
Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data In-the-Wild, International Conférence on multimodal Interaction , Oct 2023, Paris, France.

Toward a Tool Against Stereotype Threat in Math: Children’s Perceptions of Virtual Role Models.
Marjorie Armando, Isabelle Régner, Magalie Ochs.
ICMI 2023 International Workshop on Multimodal, Interactive Interfaces for Education, Oct 2023, Paris, France.

Towards the generation of synchronized and believable non-verbal facial behaviors of a talking virtual agent.
Alice Delbosc, Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret, Brian Ravenet, Stéphane Ayache.
ICMI 2023, International Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents (GENEA), Oct 2023, Paris, France.

Investigating the impact of a virtual audience’s gender and attitudes on a human speaker.
Marion Ristorcelli, Emma Gallego, Kévin Nguy, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Rémy Casanova et Magalie Ochs.
ICMI 2023 International Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH), Oct 2023, Paris, France.

Classification of Feedback Functions in Spoken Dialog Using Large Language Models and Prosodic Features
Carol Figueroa, Magalie Ochs and Gabriel Skantze
Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), August 2023, University of Maribor, Slovenia

2022

[journal] The impact of pedagogical agents’ gender on academic learning: a systematic review
Marjorie Armando, Magalie Ochs and Isabelle Régner
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence-AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change, 2022

[journal] Multimodal behavioral cues analysis of the sense of presence and social presence during a social interaction with a virtual patient
Magalie Ochs, Jérémie Bousquet, Jean-Marie Pergandi, and Philippe Blache
Frontiers in Computer Science, section Human-Media Interaction, 2022.

Listen and tell me who the user is talking to: Automatic detection of the interlocutor’s type during a conversation
Youssef Hmamouche, Magalie Ochs, Thierry Chaminade, Laurent Prévot
IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Annotation of Communicative Functions of Short Feedback Tokens in Switchboard 
Carol Figueroa, Adaeze Adigwe, Magalie Ochs and Gabriel Skantze
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2022

Are you Smiling When I am Speaking?
Auriane Boudin, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache and Stéphane Rauzy
Workshop “Smila: Smiling and Laughter across contexts and the life-span”, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2022

From neutral human face to persuasive virtual face, a new automatic tool to generate a persuasive attitude.
Afef Cherni, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs.
Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI 2022), Oct 2022, Corfou, Greece.

Automatic facial expressions, gaze direction and head movements generation of a virtual agent – REPRODUCIBILITY AWARD
Alice Delbosc, Stéphane Ayache, Magalie Ochs
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), The GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop, 2022

Predicting Local Brain Activity from Conversational Behaviours: A new Experimental Approach to Investigate the Neural Bases of Natural Social Interactions 
Thierry Chaminade, Youssef Hmamouche, Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prevot
International neuroscience conference, Paris, France, 2022

Réussite en maths : lutter contre les stéréotypes de genre avec le numérique (lien)
Marjorie Armando, Isabelle Regner et Magalie Ochs
Revue française “The Conversation”, sept. 2022

2021

A Multimodal Model for Predicting Conversational Feedbacks. Auriane Boudin, Roxane Bertrand, Stéphane Rauzy, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache. International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD), 2021, Olomouc, Czech Republic

La persuasion dans les interactions humain-humain et humain-machine: une revue de la littérature
Océane Granier, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2021, France

Les effets du genre des agents virtuels sur l’apprentissage
Marjorie Armando, Isabelle Régner, Magalie Ochs Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2021, France

Utiliser les agents virtuels pour lutter contre les discriminations sociales
Morgane Peirolo, Isabelle Régner, Magalie Ochs Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2021, France

2020

[journal] Classifying User Experience based on the Intention to Communicate.
Silviana Aciar and Magalie Ochs
IEEE Latin American Transactions (Journal). ISSN 15480992. , May 2020.

[book chapter] Une Intelligence Artificielle Anthropocentrée
Magalie Ochs
Chapter in “L’intelligence artificielle – Dans toutes ses dimensions”, B. Barraud, dir.,L’Harmattan, coll. Europe and Asie, mars 2020.

[book chapter] Vers une Intelligence Socio-Emotionnelle Artificielle des Systèmes Interactifs
Magalie Ochs
Chapter in “Que prêtons-nous aux machines ? Approches interdisciplinaires des interactions homme-robot.” Collectif Psyphine (ed.) Nanterre : Presses Universitaires Paris Nanterre,  2020.

Identifying Causal Relationships Between Behavior and Local Brain Activity During Natural Conversation
Youssef Hmamouche, Laurent Prévot, Magalie Ochs and Thierry Chaminade
Interspeech, 2020

Two-level classification for dialogue act recognition in task-oriented dialogues
Philippe Blache, Massina Abderrahmane, Stéphane Rauzy, Magalie Ochs, Houda Oufaida
COLING-2020, Oct 2020, Barcelona, Spain

The Brain-IHM Dataset: a New Resource for Studying the Brain Basis of Human-Human and Human-Machine Conversations
Magalie Ochs, Roxane Bertrand, Aurélie Goujon, Deirdre Bolger, Anne-Sophie Dubarry and Philippe Blache
LREC International Conference, may 2020, Marseille, France

BrainPredict: a Tool for Predicting and Visualising Local Brain Activity
Youssef Hmamouche, Laurent Prévot, Magalie Ochs and Thierry Chaminade
LREC International Conference, May 2020 Marseille, France

Multimodal corpus of bidirectional conversation of human-human and human-robot interaction during fMRI scanning
Birgit Rauchbauer, Youssef Hmamouche, Laurent Prévot, Magalie Ochs and Thierry Chaminade
LREC International Conference, May 2020 Marseille, France

Exploring the Dependencies between Behavioral and Neuro-physiological Time-series Extracted from Conversations between Humans and Artificial Agents
Youssef Hmamouche,Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prévot and Thierry Chaminade
International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 2020, Malte. France

Neuroscience to Investigate Social Mechanisms Involved in Human-Robot Interactions.
Youssef Hmamouche, Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prévot, Chaminade Thierry. 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), ACM, Oct 2020, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Et si les machines pouvaient nous rendre plus humains ? (lien)
Magalie Ochs, Noël NGuyen, Philippe Blache et Roxane Bertrand
Revue française “The Conversation”, nov. 2020

Comparer les activités cérébrales lors de conversations humain-humain et humain-agent artificiel avec BrainPredict
Youssef Hmamouche, Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prévot, and Thierry Chaminade
Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2020, France

Le jeu de données Brain-IHM : une nouvelle ressource pour l’analyse des bases cérébrales des conversations humain-humain et humain-agent-virtuel
Magalie Ochs, Roxane Bertrand, Aurélie Goujon, Deirdre Bolger, Anne-Sophie Dubarry and Philippe Blache
Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2020, France

Des agents virtuels pour un monde meilleur
Magalie Ochs
Workshop WACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions), sept. 2020, France

Evaluation des systèmes interactifs humanoïdes socio-émotionnels
Magalie Ochs
Drôles d’objets – Un nouvel art de faire – Avril 2020 (reportée en avril 2021)

2019

[journal] Training doctors’ social skills to break bad news: Evaluation of the impact of virtual environment displays on the sense of presence
Magalie Ochs, Daniel Mestre, Grégoire de Montcheuil, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Jorane Saubesty, Evelyne Lombardo, Daniel Francon and Philippe Blache
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI), janvier 2019.

[journal] Brain activity during reciprocal social interaction investigated using conversational robots as control condition
Birgit Rauchbauer, Bruno Nazarian, Morgane Bourhis, Magalie Ochs, Laurent Prévot and Thierry Chaminade
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Mars 2019.

[book chapter] Cross-fertilisation between human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
Kolski C, Boy G., Mélançon G., Ochs M., Vanderdonckt J.
Chapter in “A Guided Tour of Artificial Intelligence Research” edited by P. Marquis, O. Papini, H. Prade,  2019.

Multimodal cues of the sense of presence and co-presence in human-virtual agent interaction
Magalie Ochs, Jérémie Bousquet and Philippe Blache
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA), 2019, Paris, France

Evaluating temporal predictive features for virtual patients feedbacks
Bruno Penteado, Magalie Ochs, Roxane Bertrand and Philippe Blache
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA), 2019, Paris, France

2018

Toward an Automatic Prediction of the Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality Environment
Magalie Ochs, Sameer Jain, Jean-Marie Pergandi, and Philippe Blache
International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Dec. 2018, Southampton, UK (acceptation rate for long paper: 29%)

A Semi-autonomous System for Creating a Human-Machine Interaction Corpus in Virtual Reality: Application to the ACORFORMed System for Training Doctors to Break Bad News
Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache, Grégoire de Montcheuil, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Jorane Saubesty, Daniel Francon and Daniel Mestre
11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki (Japan)

Role of prosody on the perception of the “oui”/”yes” feedback in medical context
Maria Camilla Mastriani, Caterina Petrone, Roxane Bertrand and Magalie Ochs
Speech Prosody 2018 conference, 13-16 June 2018, Poland

From Emoji Usage to Categorical Emoji Prediction – Verifiability, Reproductibility and Working Description Award
Gaël Guibon, Magalie Ochs and Patrice Bellot
19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2018, March 18 – 24, 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam

Investigating the dimensions of conversational agents’ social competence using objective neurophysiological measurements (Late breaking results poster)
Thierry Chaminade, Birgit Rauchbauer, Bruno Nazarian, Morgane Bourhis, Magalie Ochs, and Laurent Prévot
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Oct. 2018, Colorado.

Emoji Recommendation in Private Instant Messages – Best Poster for the social media track
Gaël Guibon, Magalie Ochs and Patrice Bellot
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), p. 1810-1813, 2018

Challenges in linking physiological measures and linguistic productions in Conversations
Thierry Chaminade, Laurent Prévot, Magalie Ochs, Birgit Rauchbauer and Noël Nguyen
LiNCR Workshop,  11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki (Japan)

Neurophysiological mechanisms of verbal communication investigated with fMRI
Birgit Rauchbauer, Laurent Prévot, Magalie Ochs, Noël Nguyen, Thierry Chaminade
MeeTo 2018 – From moving bodies to interactive minds, IntoBrain Association.

The Acorformed Corpus: Investigating Multimodality in Human-Human and Human-Virtual Patient Interactions
Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache, Grégoire de Montcheuil, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Roxane Bertrand, Jorane Saubesty, Daniel Francon and Daniel Mestre
CLARIN Annual Conference 2018, Pise, Italie

2017

[journal] Methodology for the Automatic Extraction and Generation of Non-Verbal Signals Sequences Conveying Interpersonal Attitudes
Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), 2017.

[journal] A user-perception based approach to create smiling embodied conversational agents
Magalie Ochs, Gary Mckeown and Catherine Pelachaud
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), Volume 7 Issue 1, January 2017.

Do You Speak to a Human or a Virtual Agent? Automatic Analysis of User’s Social Cues during Mediated Communication
Magalie Ochs, Nathan Libermann, Axel Boidin, and Thierry Chaminade
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2017.

Mining a Multimodal Corpus of Doctor’s Training for Virtual Patient’s Feedbacks
Chris Porhet, Magalie Ochs, Jorane Saubesty, Grégoire de Montcheuil, and Roxane Bertrand
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2017.

Une plateforme de recommandation automatique d’emojis (papier de démo)
Gaël Guibon, Magalie Ochs et Patrice Bellot
Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Orléans, France, 2017

An architecture of virtual patient simulation platform to train doctors to break bad news
Magalie Ochs, Grégoire de Montcheuil, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Jorane Saubesty, Catherine Pelachaud, Daniel Mestre and Philippe Blache
Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), 2017, Séoul, Korea.

Prediction automatique d’emojis sentimentaux
Gaël Guibon, Magalie Ochs, Patrice BelloConférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications (CORIA), 2017, Marseille, France.

2016

[journal] The Effects of Interpersonal Attitude of a Group of Agents on User’s Presence and Proxemics Behavior
Angelo Cafaro, Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson  and Catherine Pelachaud
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), Volume 6 Issue 2, July 2016.

Perceiving Attitudes Expressed Through Nonverbal Behaviors in Immersive Virtual Environments (short paper)
Brian Ravenet, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Angelo Cafaro, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud
Motion in Games (MIG) 2016, San Francisco

Data-driven model of virtual patient for doctor social training
Magalie Ochs, Evelyne Lombardo, Soisik Verbog, Marie-Christine Moll, José Hureaux, Daniel Francon, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Daniel Mestre, Gregoire De Montcheuil, Catherine Pelachaud, Brice Donval, Jorane Saubesty, Chloé Clavel and Philippe Blache
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agent – GREATS Workshop (Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems) , Los Angeles,California,  Sept.  2016

Evaluating Social Attitudes of a Virtual Tutor
Florian Pecune, Angelo Cafaro, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud
Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agent – Los Angeles,California,  Sept.  2016

Vers un environnement de réalité virtuelle d’apprentissage : la formation des médecins à l’annonce d’évènements indésirables graves
Magalie Ochs, Daniel Francon, Jorane Saubesty et Philippe Blache
Congrès Francophone d’Oncologie Multidisciplinaire 2016, Marseille, France

SOCRATES : from SOCial Relations to ATtitude ExpressionS
Florian Pecune, Magalie Ochs, Stacy Marsella, Catherine Pelachaud
Proc. of the International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2016  – Acceptance rate for long paper : 25 % 

Virtual Reality for Training Doctors to Break Bad News
Magalie Ochs and Philippe Blache
EC-TEL 2016 – European Conference on Technology Enhanced learning, Adaptive and Adaptable Learning – Sept. 2016 – Acceptance rate : 33%

From Emojis to Sentiment Analysis
Gael Guibon, Magalie Ochs and Patrice Bellot
WACAI 2016 – Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnons Artificiels et Interaction – ENIB, Brest, Juin 2016

A Virtual Patient to Train Doctors to Break Bad News
Magalie Ochs, Brice Donval and Philippe Blache
WACAI 2016 – Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnons Artificiels et Interaction – ENIB, Brest, Juin 2016

Vers des ordinateurs dotés d’une intelligence sociale et émotionnelle
Magalie Ochs
La recherche scientifique et ses interfaces disciplinaires – Actes du Colloque CIRUISEF – Villa Méditérranée, Marseille, Mai 2016

2015

2014

[book chapter] Fertilisation croisée entre interaction personne-système et intelligence artificielle
Kolski C, Boy G., Mélançon G., Ochs M., Vanderdonckt J.
Chapter in ” Panorama de l’intelligence artificielle, Ses bases méthodologiques ses développements, Tome 3″ edited by P. Marquis, O. Papini, H. Prade, Cépaduès Editions, Toulouse, France, 2014.

From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression.
Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’14), August 2014, Boston, USA ***Nominated for best paper award*** . 

Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations
Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conferenceon Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA2014), Boston, USA, August 2014.

Architecture of a Socio-Conversational Agent in Virtual Worlds
Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2014), Paris, France, October 2014.

A Computational model of Social Attitudes for a Virtual Recruiter
Zoraida Callejas, Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Paris, 2014 – Acceptance rate: 24 % 

Expressing social attitudes in virtual agents for social coaching (poster)
Hazael Jones, Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Paris, 2014 – Acceptance rate for poster : 46 %

A model to generate adaptive multimodal job interviews with a virtual recruiter
Zoraida Callejas, Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik (Iceland), 2014

Mining a multimodal corpus for non-verbal signals sequences conveying attitudes
Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik (Iceland), 2014 

Expressing social attitudes in virtual agents for social training games
Hazael Jones, Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret and Catherine Pelachaud
2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI) 2014, Haifa (Israel) 

Virtual conversational agents and social robots: converging challenges
Gerard Bailly, Magalie Ochs, Alexandre Pauchet and Humbert Fiorino
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, June 2014, Rouen, France. 

Nonverbal behavior of a virtual agent expressing attitudes in a group
Brian Ravenet, Angelo Cafaro, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, June 2014, Rouen, France. 

Modélisation de l’influence de la personnalité d’un compagnon artificiel sur ses attitudes sociales
Florian Pecune, Caroline Faur, Magalie Ochs, Céline Clavel, Catherine Pelachaud and Jean-Claude Martin
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, June 2014, Rouen, France. 

Expressing social attitudes in virtual agents for social coaching
H. Jones, M. Chollet, M. Ochs, N. Sabouret, C. Pelachaud
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, June 2014, Rouen, France. 

2013

[journal] Socially Aware Virtual Characters: The Social Signal of Smiles
Magalie Ochs et Catherine Pelachaud
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol 30 (2), p. 128-132, March 2013 (IEEE-SPM).

[book chapter] Modélisation et simulation des émotions dans des entités artificielles
Magalie Ochs
Chapitre dans le livre “Modéliser & simuler. Epistémologies et pratiques de la modélisation et de la simulation. Tome 1.” Sous la direction de Franck Varenne & Marc Silberstein, Editions Matériologiques, 2013

[book chapter] La compréhension machine à travers l’expression non-verbale
Magalie Ochs, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ken Prepin, Quoc Anh Le, Yu Ding, Jing Huang, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud
Chapitre dans le livre “Intercompréhensions comparées dans trois types d’interactions : Homme-Homme, Animal-Homme-Machine et Homme-Machine” Sous la direction de Marine Grandgeorge, Brigitte Le Pévédic, Frédéric Pugnière-Saavedra E.M.E. Editions, 2013

A Formal Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions
Florian Pecune, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Toulouse, 2013 – Acceptance rate: 38 % 

Investigating non-verbal behaviors conveying interpersonal stances (abstract)
Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
European Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Malte, 2013 

Pour un agent virtuel poétique
David Christoffel, Magalie Ochs et Chloé Clavel
Journée Neurosciences, Esthétique et Complexité, Université Paris Descartes, sept. 2013 

A crowdsourcing method for a user-perception based design of social virtual actors
Magalie Ochs, Brian Ravenet, and Catherine Pelachaud
International Workshop “Computers are Social Actors” (CASA), Intelligent Virtual Agent Conference (IVA) (impact factor: 1.76),  Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013 

The TARDIS Framework: Intelligent Virtual Agents for Social Coaching in Job Interviews
K. Anderson, E. André, T. Baur, S. Bernardini, M. Chollet, E. Chryssafidou, I. Damian, C. Ennis, A. Egges, P. Gebhard, H. Jones, M. Ochs, C. Pelachaud, K. Porayska-Pomsta, P. Rizzo, and N. Sabouret
Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE’13), November 2013, Enschede , Netherlands. 

Vers des Agents Conversationnels Animés Socio-Affectifs
M. Ochs, Y. Ding, N. Fourati, M. Chollet, B. Ravenet, F. Pecune, N. Glas, K. Prépin, C. Clavel et C. Pelachaud
Interaction Humain-Machine (IHM’13), November 2013, Bordeaux, France – Taux d’acceptation : 37 %
(article nominé pour le best paper)

From a User-Created Corpus of Virtual Agent’s Non-Verbal Behavior to a Computational Model of Interpersonal Attitudes
Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Intelligent Virtual Agent Conference (IVA) (impact factor: 1.76), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013 

From emotions to interpersonal stances: Multi-levels analysis of smiling virtual characters
Magalie Ochs, Ken Prepin, and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Geneva, Switzerland, 2013 

A multimodal corpus approach to the design of virtual recruiters
Matthieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs, and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Geneva, Switzerland, 2013 

User’s sentiment analysis in face-to-face human-agent interactions – prospects
Chloé Clavel, Catherine Pelachaud and Magalie Ochs
1st Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals, Grenoble, France, 2013 

A multimodal corpus for the study of non-verbal behavior conveying interpersonal stance
M. Chollet, M. Ochs, C. Pelachaud
IVA’13 Workshop Multimodal Corpora: Beyond Audio and Video, September 2013, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

De l’intercompréhension à la complémentarité des relations sociales humain-machine
Florian Pecune, Magalie Ochs, et Catherine Pelachaud
Conférence III – Intercompéhension de l’intraspécifique à l’interspécifique, Lorient, France, 2013 

Social Stances by Virtual Smiles
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud, and Ken Prepin
International Workshop on Image and Audio Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Paris, july 2013 

Beyond backchannels: co-construction of dyadic stancce by reciprocal reinforcement of smiles between virtual agents
Ken Prepin, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
International Conference CogSci (Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society), Berlin, july 2013 – Acceptance rate : 28% on 910 submissions.

A Framework for Human-like Behavior in an Immersive Virtual World
Fons Kuijk, Sigurd Van Broeck, Claude Dareau, Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs, Konstantinos Apostolakis, Petros Daras, David Monahan, Noel E O’Connor, Julie Wall, Ebroul Izquierdo
International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP2013), Greece, july 2013.

2012 and before

[journal] Susciter l’émotion dans la narration automatique
Roman Miletitch, Nicolas Sabouret et Magalie Ochs
Technique et sciences informatiques (TSI), Numéro spécial “Agents conversationnels et Affective Computing”, vol. 31 (4), pages 477-501, 2012.

[journal] Smiling Virtual Agent in Social Context
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Paul Brunet, and Catherine Pelachaud
Cognitive Processing, Special Issue on “Social Agents. From Theory to Applications”, vol. 13 (22), pages 519-532, 2012.

[journal] A Formal Model of Emotions for an Empathic Rational Dialog Agent
Magalie Ochs, David Sadek and Catherine Pelachaud
Journal of Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 24 (3), pages 410-440,  2012, (JAAMAS)

[journal] Simulation of the dynamics of Non-Player Characters’ emotions and social relations in games
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret et Vincent Corruble
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAG, impact factor: 1,62), p. 281-297, Vol. 1(4), 2009.

[journal] Simulation de la dynamique des émotions et des relations sociales de personnages virtuels
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret et Vincent Corruble
Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle (RIA), Editions spéciale “Jeux vidéo”, 23(2), mars 2009.

[journal] Expressions Intelligentes des Emotions
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud et David Sadek
Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle (RIA), Editions spéciale “Interaction Emotionnelle”, 20(4-5) : 607-620, sept. 2006.

[book chapter] The role of emotions in human-machine interaction
Magalie Ochs et Valérie Maffiolo
Chapitre dans le livre “Emotion-oriented systems” édité par Catherine Pelachaud, p. 249-278, Hermes, Octobre 2011

[book chapter] Le rôle des émotions dans les interactions humain-machine
Magalie Ochs et Valérie Maffiolo
Chapitre dans le livre “Systèmes d’interaction émotionnelle” édité par Catherine Pelachaud, p. 249-278, Hermes, 2010

[book chapter] Towards a Socially and Emotionally Attuned Humanoid Agent”, in Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue
C. Peters, C. Pelachaud, E. Bevacqua, M. Ochs, N. Ech Chafai and M.Mancini
NATO Security through Science Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics – Vol. 18, Edited by A. Esposito M. Bratanic, E. Keller and M. Marinaro, IOS Press, 2007, pages 332-342

[book chapter] Intelligent Virtual Agents nell’e-learning
Elisabetta Bevacqua, Maurizio Mancini, Christopher Peters, Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Ech Chafai and Catherine Pelachaud
Eds E. Magno-Caldognetto, Aspetti emotivi e relazionali nell’e-learning, CNR, 2007

[book chapter] Using Machine-Learning Techniques to Recognize Emotions for On-Line Learning Systems
Mohammed A. Razek, Soumaya Chaffar, Claude Frasson and Magalie Ochs
Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction – Game-Based and Innovative Learning Approaches, Edited by Maja Pivec, vol. 1, p. 255-265, 2006

A computational model of social attitude effects on the nonverbal behavior for a relational agent
Brian Ravenet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI), Research Report, (RR-LIG-039), p. 94-101, LIG, Grenoble, France, 2012.

Interpersonal stance recognition using non-verbal signals on several time windows
Matthieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI), Research Report, (RR-LIG-039), p. 19-26, LIG, Grenoble, France, 2012.

Vers un modèle computationnel de l’influence de la personnalité d’un ACA sur son comportement
Florian Pecune, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI), Research Report, (RR-LIG-039), p. 54-61, LIG, Grenoble, France, 2012.

AFFIMO: Toward an open-source system to detect AFFinities and eMOtions in user’s sentences
Magalie Ochs, Jeremy Ollivier, Brieuc Coic,Thomas Brien and Fabien Majeric
Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI), Research Report, (RR-LIG-039), p. 183-190, LIG, Grenoble, France, 2012.

Vers un monde virtuel plus souriant
Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Societé Francophone de Classification, oct. 2012, Marseille, France.

Mutual Stance Building in Dyad of Virtual Agents: Smile Alignement and Synchronisation
Ken Prepin, Magalie Ochs, and Catherine Pelachaud
Proceedings of International Workshop on Exploring Stances in Interactions,  International Conference SocialCom (impact factor: 2.6), 2012, Amsterdam.

Smiling Virtual Characters Corpora
Magalie Ochs,  Paul Brunet, Gary McKeown, Catherine Pelachaud, and Roddy Cowie
Proceedings of International Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion, Sentiment and Social Signals (impact factor: 1.37),  LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Model of the Perception of Smiling Virtual Character
Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (impact factor: 3.12), June 2012, Valencia, Spain (taux de selection : 20.4%)

2011

From Biologically Inspired Model of Emotions to Strategic Expressions for a Virtual Agent
Pierre Philippe, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop “Standards in Emotion Modeling”, august 2011

La compréhension de la machine à travers l’expression non-verbale
Magalie Ochs, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ken Prepin, Quoc Anh Le, Yu Ding, Jing Huang, Radoslaw Nieviadomski, et Catherine Pelachaud
Congrès III – Intercompréhension – de l’Intraspécifique à l’Interspécifique, nov. 2011

From socio-emotional scenarios to expressive virtual narrators
Roman Miletitch, Nicolas Sabouret, and Magalie Ochs
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence, 2011  

2010

Towards a smiling ECA: Studies on mimicry, timing and types of smiles
Radek Niewiadmoski, Ken Prepin, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Magalie Ochs, and Catherine Pelachaud
ACM Multimedia 2010 Workshop – Social Signal Processing (SSPW 2010)

How a virtual agent should smile? Morphological and dynamic characteristics of virtual agent’s smiles (Acceptance rate for long papers: 23 %)
Magalie Ochs, Radek Niewiadmoski, and Catherine Pelachaud
Intelligent Virtual Agent Conference (IVA) (impact factor: 1.76), 2010, Philadelphia.

Corpus-based analysis of users’ emotional strategies to convince virtual characters
Magalie Ochs and Rui Prada
Workshop Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality, Conference LREC, 2010, Malte.

Virtual Character’s Emotional Persuasiveness
Magalie Ochs and Helmut Prendinger
International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER), 2010, Paris.

De la description de scénarios socio-émotionnels au narrateur virtuel expressif.
Roman Miletitch, Nicolas Sabouret et Magalie Ochs
Workshop Francophone sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés (WACA), 2010, Paris, France.

2009

Emotional Gaming: Win by Emotion Expression
Magalie Ochs and Helmut Prendinger
International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), 2009, Athens.

Toward a polite smiling behavior for ECA
Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Foundation of Social Signals, 2009, Rome.

Simulation of the Dynamics of Virtual Characters’ Emotions and Social Relations
Magalie Ochs and Nicolas Sabouret
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2009, Amsterdam.     

OSSE: an Open Source Socio-Emotional simulator (demo paper)
Nicolas Sabouret and Magalie Ochs
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2009, Amsterdam.

2008

Modeling the Dynamics of Non-Player Characters’Social Relations in Video Games
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret and Vincent Corruble
Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE), 2008,California, USA.

Expressions of Empathy in ECAs
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud
Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) (impact factor: 1.76), 2008, Tokyo, Japan.

Using facial expressions to display empathy in ECAs
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud
Speech and Face to Face Communication Workshop, 2008 Grenoble, France.

An Empathic Virtual Dialog Agent to Improve Human-Machine Interaction
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud and David Sadek
Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) (impact factor: 3.12), 2008 Estoril, Portugal.

OSSE : un Outil pour la Simulation du contexte Socio-Emotionnel d’un personnage virtuel
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret et Vincent Corruble
Workshop Francophone sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés (WACA), 2008, Paris, France.

Un modèle de la dynamique des relations sociales pour des agents virtuels
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret et Vincent Corruble
Journées Francophones des Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA), 2008, Brest, France.

2007

An Empathic Rational Dialog Agent
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud and David Sadek
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2007 Lisbonne, Portugal.

Emotion Elicitation in an Empathic Virtual Dialog Agent
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud, and David Sadek
The Second European Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci), 2007, Delphes, Grèce.

Vers un modèle formel des émotions d’un agent rationnel dialoguant empathique
Magalie Ochs, David Sadek et Catherine Pelachaud
Conférence sur les modèles formels de l’interaction (MFI), 2007, Paris, France.

Des agents virtuels sociaux et émotionnels pour l’interaction humain-machine
Nicolas Ech Chafai, Magalie Ochs, Christopher Peters, Maurizio Mancini, Elisabetta Bevacqua et Catherine Pelachaud
19ème Conférence francophone sur l’interaction homme-machine (IHM), Paris, 2007.

2006

A Coding Scheme for Designing Computational Model of Emotion Elicitation
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud and David Sadek
Workshop Emotion: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect – Conference LREC, 2006, Gènes, Italie

A Computational Model of Capability-Based Emotion Elicitation for Rational Agent
Magalie Ochs, Karl Devooght, David Sadek, and Catherine Pelachaud
Workshop Emotion and Computing -German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), 2006, Bremen, Allemagne.

Social Capabilities for Autonomous Virtual Characters
C. Peters, C. Pelachaud, E. Bevacqua, M. Ochs, N. Ech Chafai, M. Mancini
Conférence Games, 2006, Portugal

Les conditions de déclenchement des émotions d’un agent empathique
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud et David Sadek
Workshop Francophone sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés (WACA), 2006, Toulouse, France

2005

Intelligent Expressions of Emotions
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud, and David Sadek
The First International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2005), p. 707-714, 2005, Pékin, Chine

La représentation des émotions d’un Agent Rationnel
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud et David Sadek
Premier Workshop Francophone sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés (WACA 2005), 2005, Grenoble, France

2004

Optimal Emotional Conditions for Learning with an Intelligent Tutoring System
Magalie Ochs and Claude Frasson
Conférence Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), p. 845-847, 2004, Maceo, Brésil.

Emotionally Intelligent Tutoring Systems (EITS)
Magalie Ochs and Claude Frasson
Conférence FLAIRS (The Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference), 2004, Miami, Floride, Etats-Unis.

Autres publications

Modélisation, formalisation et mise en oeuvre d’un agent rationnel dialoguant émotionnel empathique
Thèse de doctorat, Université Paris 8, décembre 2007.

Systèmes Tutoriels Émotionnellement Intelligents
Mémoire de Maîtrise ès Science d’informatique, Université de Montréal, juillet 2004.