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<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">Call for Participation</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">ACM 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>September 16-19, 2024</strong>, University of Glasgow, Scotland</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">2024 Intelligent Virtual Agents </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">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><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>IVA 2024, the 24th Annual Conference, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 16-19, 2024. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>Note IVA 2024 will be co-located with the conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII).</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">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>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">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><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: inherit;"> Agent design and modeling of:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Cognition</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Conversational behavior</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Social perception</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Machine learning approaches to agent modeling</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Models informed by theoretical and empirical research in psychology</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: inherit;">Multimodal interaction:</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Face-to-face communication skills</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Engagement</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Multi-party interaction</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Data driven multimodal modeling</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: inherit;">Social agent architectures:</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Design criteria and design methodologies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Standards / measures to support interoperability</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Portability and reuse</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: inherit;">Evaluation methods and studies:</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Evaluation methodologies and user studies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Ethical considerations and societal impact</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: inherit;">Applications:</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Virtual agents in games and simulations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Social agents as tools in psychology</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Migration of agents between platforms</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>Special Theme</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">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>
<p><span style="font-size: inherit;">Note: IVA 2024 will as usual have a doctoral consortium, workshops and demos. Details can be found at the web site: </span><a id="menur20jo" class="fui-Link ___1rxvrpe f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv f19f4twv f1tyq0we f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f fqv5qza f1vmzxwi f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fiva.acm.org%2f2024%2f&data=05%7c01%7cstacy.marsella%40glasgow.ac.uk%7c8a2fcc24d37b4ddf0bf108dbf019ebf1%7c6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7c1%7c0%7c638367766343003973%7cunknown%7ctwfpbgzsb3d8eyjwijoimc4wljawmdailcjqijoiv2lumziilcjbtii6ik1hawwilcjxvci6mn0%3d%7c3000%7c%7c%7c&sdata=8o5kksx0d0dkqkrchhf7hqn2qs0%2br0ijdatqu9tb2v4%3d&reserved=0" href="https://iva.acm.org/2024/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link https://iva.acm.org/2024/">https://iva.acm.org/2024/</a></p>
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