[agents] IVA 2015 1st Call For Papers

[Joost Broekens]

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS
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Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2015 (IVA2015)
26 – 28 August
Delft, The Netherlands


http://iva2015.tudelft.nl




IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers and Poster Submissions
Submissions deadline:               15 March 2015
Author notification:                16 May 2015
Camera ready version:               31 May 2015


Workshop Submissions
Workshop proposals:                 16 January 2015
Workshop notifications:             16 February 2015


IVA 2015
Doctoral consortium:                Monday 24 Aug 2015
Workshops:                          Tuesday 25 Aug 2015
Main conference:                    Wednesday 26 Aug – Friday 28 Aug 2015




CONFERENCE
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Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit
human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using
natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture.
They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action which allows
them to participate in dynamic social environments.


IVA is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading
scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and
evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative
abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical
issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications.
Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are
also encouraged to share work with a relevance to intelligent virtual
agents.




SPECIAL TOPIC
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This year’s special topic is Social Training. Increasingly more research
aims at utilizing potential benefits of using intelligent virtual agents in
automated training systems in domains with a strong emphasis on the social
dimension of human-human interaction. Examples of such training domains
are:  negotiation, job interviewing, interrogation, aggression or conflict
management, patient or customer conversation, but also social environments
used for treatment of people with social anxiety or autism.  The conference
will encourage contributions (workshops, paper, demo’s, posters, and
keynotes) that address this special topic.




TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Design, Modeling and Evaluation


* design criteria and design methodologies
* evaluation methodologies and user studies
* ethical considerations and societal impact
* applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
* improvisational or dramatic interaction
* dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
* models of multimodal perception and action
* models of emotionally communicative behavior
* models of conversational behavior
* models of narrative and storytelling
* theoretical foundations and formal models
* learned, evolved or emergent behavior


Implementation and Applications of IVAs


* software engineering issues
* real-time integrated systems
* portability and reuse standards / measures to support interoperability
* specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
* specialized modeling and animation technologies
* applications in games, education, art, etc.
* delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented
or mixed reality, robots
* future or current experience in various fields, e.g. Interactive
narrative and story-telling, computer games, art and entertainment,
education and training, simulation and visualization




SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Paper and Poster Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12 pages),short
papers (8 pages), or poster papers (4 pages). We also
welcome demonstrations (please submit a 4 page description). Submissions
should be anonymous and in Springer LNCS format. Detailed author
instructions will become available on the conference website (
iva2015.tudelft.nl)


Workshop Submissions
Workshop proposals should consist of a 2 page description that clearly
indicates what the workshop is about and what the format will be, why the
workshop fits the IVA conference series, why the workshop topic is timely
and relevant, as well as potential contributors to the workshop.


All submissions should be made through the conference review system (see
iva2015.tudelft.nl)


Conference co-chairs
* Willem-Paul Brinkman        Delft University of Technology
* Joost Broekens              Delft University of Technology
* Dirk Heylen                 University of Twente

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