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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">ACM 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">September 16-19, 2024, University of Glasgow, Scotland</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">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.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>IVA 2024, the 24th Annual Conference, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 16-19,
2024. </b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Note IVA 2024 will be co-located with the conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent
Interaction (ACII), with select joint sessions and social events and the ability to attend ACII paper sessions.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities including communicating using
natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social interactions. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVA 2024 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs,
as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as 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.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVA 2024 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, not including references) and Extended Abstracts
(3 pages, not including references).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by expert reviewers. All accepted full paper submissions
will be presented orally and published in the proceedings. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented as a talk or a poster, depending on the outcome of the review process. Accepted extended abstracts will also be published in the proceedings, unless the
authors do not want it published.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Interdisciplinary Format</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVA is traditionally a highly interdisciplinary conference. As part of ensuring that, IVA 2024 will
account for different publication norms across disciplines. For example, conference publication is a norm in Computer Science whereas journal publications are the norm in Psychology. To accommodate these differences while fostering trans-disciplinary interaction,
accepted extended abstracts may be selected for oral presentation in addition to the standard of a poster presentation. Also, authors of extended abstracts will have the option of whether their abstract publication is archival.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> Agent design and modeling of:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Cognition</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Conversational behavior</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Social perception</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Machine learning approaches to agent modeling</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Models informed by theoretical and empirical research in psychology</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Multimodal interaction:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Face-to-face communication skills</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Engagement</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Multi-party interaction</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Data driven multimodal modeling</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Social agent architectures:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Design criteria and design methodologies</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Standards / measures to support interoperability</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Portability and reuse</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Evaluation methods and studies:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Evaluation methodologies and user studies</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Ethical considerations and societal impact</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Virtual agents in games and simulations</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Social agents as tools in psychology</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 18.65pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Migration of agents between platforms</span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">A special theme this year at IVA will be on the use of multimodal machine learning and large language/foundation
models in agent design and implementation, as well as comparison of these techniques to alternative approaches. These advances promise to make virtual agents more robust, human-like and capable of autonomous open-ended interaction. At the same time these advances
can raise critical ramifications for the design process’s ability to ensure the behavior of the agent is appropriately circumscribed for an application. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Note: IVA 2024 will as usual have a doctoral consortium, workshops and demos. Details on submissions
can be found at the web site: </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2024/" id="OWAdc349869-3beb-1ffe-883e-4c34c94158aa" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://iva.acm.org/2024/</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">IVA 2024 accepts two types of submissions:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Full papers: 8 pages (not including references)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Extended abstracts: 3 pages (not including references)</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">All submissions should be in PDF-format.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Important Dates</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Preliminary abstract submissions (mandatory, to assign reviewers)</span></li><ul style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; padding-left: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Submission Deadline: 28</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> March
2024 (23:59 UTC-12)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Papers and Extended Abstracts Submission</span></li><ul style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; padding-left: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Submission Deadline: 5</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> April
2024 (23:59 UTC-12)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Review Process</span></li><ul style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; padding-left: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Initial Review Notification/Start Rebuttal Phase: 10</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> May
2024</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Rebuttals Due: 17</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> May
2024 (23:59 UTC-12)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Notification of acceptance: 7</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> June
2024</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Camera Ready Due: 7</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"> July
2024 (23:59 UTC-12)</span></li></ul>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>General Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:generalchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWAb8d47d4f-d684-553d-7605-b9b18ad6324f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">generalchairs@iva.acm.org</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Rachael Jack (University of Glasgow, UK) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Mathieu Chollet (University of Glasgow, UK) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 16pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Ruth Aylett (Heriot Watt University, UK)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Program Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:programmchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA288434ed-734f-b10e-8a53-e02510c39e2c" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">programmchairs@iva.acm.org</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University, USA)
</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Gale Lucas (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Stacy Marsella (Northeastern University, USA)</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Demo Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:demochairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA8757624e-2c5f-35c7-56a1-57da43f399f3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">demochairs@iva.acm.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><u><a href="mailto:demochairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA8757624e-2c5f-35c7-56a1-57da43f399f3" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></u></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Stefán
Ólafsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland). </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Pablo Arias Sarah (University of Glasgow, UK) </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Workshop Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:workshopchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA50faa76f-bf05-067c-1445-fa81b483b57f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">workshopchairs@iva.acm.org</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Beatrice Biancardi (LINEACT CESI, France) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Patrick Gebhard (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany) </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Proceedings Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:proceedingschairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA5026a30f-3149-6b52-cdad-6ffebd9f171c" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">proceedingschairs@iva.acm.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><u><a href="mailto:proceedingschairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA5026a30f-3149-6b52-cdad-6ffebd9f171c" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></u></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Thilina
Latitharatne (Queen Mary University of London, UK) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Florian Pecune (University of Bordeaux, France) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Doctoral Consortium Chairs:</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:doctoralconsortiumchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA40a5afd9-887a-ccc6-6e32-887c6e6d0b8e" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">doctoralconsortiumchairs@iva.acm.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><u><a href="mailto:doctoralconsortiumchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA40a5afd9-887a-ccc6-6e32-887c6e6d0b8e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></u></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Hannes
Högni Vilhjálmsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Laura Hensel (University of Glasgow, UK) </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 16pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Local Chairs:</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:localchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA61966f7f-ebf0-41df-f139-90ddb1ada526" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">localchairs@iva.acm.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><u><a href="mailto:localchairs@iva.acm.org" id="OWA61966f7f-ebf0-41df-f139-90ddb1ada526" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></u></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Mary
Ellen Foster (University of Glasgow, UK) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Sponsor Chairs:</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:sponsorchair@iva.acm.org" id="OWA288bb0d6-aaf4-d4fd-ee0d-de21e9239b09" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">sponsorchair@iva.acm.org</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 16pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Jonas Beskow (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, Sweden)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"><b>Web Chairs:
</b></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:webchair@iva.acm.org" id="OWA82dcd52c-b979-d921-762f-c586faa188ed" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">webchair@iva.acm.org</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Brian Ravenet (LISN-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France) </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14.5pt; color: black;">Tanja Schneeberger (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany ) </span></p>
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