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<p>Hello,</p>
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lang="EN-US">The second volume of our handbook came out:</span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20
years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent
Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics <br>
</span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">Volume
2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application, can be found </span>in
digital form: </span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a
href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3563659"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3563659</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">The ACM Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents
provides a comprehensive overview of the research fields of
Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and
Social Robotics. Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs), whether
virtually or physically embodied, are autonomous agents that are
able to perceive an environment including people or other
agents, reason, decide how to interact, and express attitudes,
emotions, engagement, or even empathy. They are capable of
interacting with people and one another in a socially
intelligent manner using multimodal communicative behaviors,
with the goal to support humans in various domains.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">Written by international experts in their
respective fields, the book summarizes research in the many
important research communities pertinent for SIAs, while
discussing current challenges and future directions. The
handbook provides easy access to modeling and studying SIAs for
researchers and students and aims at further bridging the gap
between the research communities involved. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">In 2 volumes, the book clearly structures the vast
body of research. The first volume starts by introducing what is
involved in SIAs research, in particular research methodologies
and ethical implications of developing SIAs. It further examines
research on appearance and behavior, focusing on multimodality.
Finally, social cognition for SIAs is investigated by different
theoretical models and phenomena such as theory of mind or
pro-sociality. The second volume starts with perspectives on
interaction, examined from different angles such as interaction
in social space, group interaction, or long-term interaction. It
also includes an extensive overview summarizing research and
systems of human-agent platforms and of some of the major
application areas of SIAs such as education, aging support,
autism or games.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
lang="EN-US">Kind regards,</span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, David Traum</span>
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