[agents] IVA 2021 Second Call for Papers

[Joost Broekens]

*IVA 2021 Second Call for Papers*

(apologies for multiple postings)

The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier
international event for interdisciplinary research on the design,
application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a
specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive
characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using
natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture.

IVA 2021 will be held ONLINE as a Virtual Conference and is organised by
the University of Fukuchiyama.

The special theme of IVA 2021 is: Intelligent Virtual Agents in a Global
Pandemic. COVID-19 has shown that interaction between users and socially
intelligent agents is essential to improve the design of interactive
applications and to support technology that aims at user-friendly socially
competent solutions. Through deeper understanding of the mechanisms that
underlie human cognition, emotion, and action in various human-human and
human-agent interactive situations, it is possible to advance the state of
the art, gain knowledge, and develop applications that address socially
important issues such as how to counter feelings of loneliness or break
information bubbles.

We invite submissions on cutting-edge research on the design, application,
and evaluation of IVAs, as well as basic research on social perception,
dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions
on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological
research and showcases of working applications. For a longer list of topics
see the IVA 2021 website. Special theme topics include but are not limited
to: experiments and methodological issues with Socially Interactive Agents
(SIA) and HRI research when interaction is restricted (such as during
Covid-19), IVAs for behavior change, IVAs for social inclusion/feelings of
loneliness, mental helper IVAs, IVA’s for deliberation and information
understanding, Cognitive aid IVA’s, and IVA aided education (remote)
education. IVA 2021 offers three submission tracks. All accepted submission
will be reviewed and included in the proceedings.

*Full papers (7 pages, excluding 1 optional extra page for references
only). Full papers should present significant, novel and substantial work
of high quality that needs proceedings space to explain and replicate the
work.

*Extended Abstracts (2 pages, excluding 1 optional extra page for
references only). Extended abstracts should either discuss the relevance
for IVA of recently published important work by the authors, or early
results, or standard studies and approaches that do not need significant
proceedings space to explain and replicate.

*Demos (2 pages, excluding 1 optional extra page for references only, a
hyperlink to a video of the demo must be present in the pdf). Demo
abstracts focus on demo-ability and application of an implemented system.
Each demo should be accompanied by one demo submission.

All submission types (full papers, extended abstracts and demo submissions)
will be double-blind peer-reviewed by the expert reviewer committee.
Accepted submissions will be published in the IVA ACM proceedings, and all
accepted papers must be presented at the conference. For each accepted
contribution at least one of the authors must register for the conference.
The presentation type will be either a poster or talk format depending on
what is the most appropriate format for the paper. The authors can
themselves choose a preferred presentation type but the final decision will
be made by the programme chairs. All posters have to be pitched during a
plenary poster booster session (poster madness).
Besides the main conference presentations, IVA 2021 also features
workshops, the GALA event and Doctoral Consortium. See a specific call for
participation in these events, and the website for more details on the
contributions to these events.

IVA features a unique submission process for full papers, extended
abstracts and demos. Submissions that are of high quality but that need a
revision according to the reviewers and SPC can be invited for a revised
resubmission. This means that your notification will be either *accept*,
*reject* or *revise*. Note that the revision deadline is only for papers
with a *revise* decision. No new submissions or resubmissions of rejected
submissions will be possible. Also note that a revision will be reviewed
again, following either an accept or reject decision. All decisions are
final.

*Deadlines (anywhere on earth)*

All paper submissions: May 1, 2021
Notifications: June 1, 2021
Revisions (no new submissions): June 15, 2021
Notification of revisions: July 1, 2021
Camera ready: August 1, 2021
Conference: September 14-17, 2021

*Website and submission instructions*

https://sites.google.com/view/iva2021

Submission site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva2021

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Joost Broekens
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Associate professor Affective Computing & HRI @ LIACS @ University of
Leiden.
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Co-founder @ Interactive Robotics
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CTO & Co-founder @ Daisys.ai
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*Contact details*
Office: LIACS (Snellius building) Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, Room 132.
Phone: 071-5277139
Skype: joost.broekens
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