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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Submissions</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ACM 25th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">September 16-19, 2025, HTW, Berlin, Germany</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/" title="https://iva.acm.org/2025/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://iva.acm.org/2025/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission Deadline: 4th April 2025</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission Deadline: 11</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th</span></sup><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Review Notification: 23</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th</span></sup><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deadline Revised Version: 30</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th</span></sup><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Notification of Acceptance: 13</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th</span></sup><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Camera Ready Due: 14</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th</span></sup><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July
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<span style="font-family:"Hoefler Text",serif">Submissions Deadline: May 30</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th, 2025</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Hoefler Text",serif">Submissions Deadline: J</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">une 6th, 2025</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2025 Intelligent Virtual Agents</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Virtual Agents with social interaction
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVA 2025, the 25th Annual Conference, will be held in Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2025. </span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities, including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, and gestures. IVAs are also capable of
real-time perception, cognition, emotion, and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social interactions. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVA 2025 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><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Aesthetics and Culture</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This
year’s theme explores how exploiting aesthetic principles and cultural nuances for Socially Interactive Agents fosters user trust, comfort, and willingness to engage. It also examines how culturally informed design cues reduce barriers and promote more intuitive,
socially meaningful human-machine collaboration.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVA 2025 offers the following submission tracks: </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full papers: 4 to 8 pages (not including references):<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers" title="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Posters: 2 to 3 pages (not including references):<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-scientific-and-artistic-posters-submissions/" title="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-scientific-and-artistic-posters-submissions/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-scientific-and-artistic-posters-submissions/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Demo & Artwork: 2 pages + visuals:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-demos/" title="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-demos/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-demos</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CALL FOR FULL PAPERS</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;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. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Interdisciplinary Format</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVA is a highly interdisciplinary conference that recognizes varying publication norms across disciplines. For instance, conference publications are standard in Computer Science, while journal publications
prevail in Psychology. To promote trans-disciplinary interaction, authors can decide whether their accepted full paper with the supplemental material will be included in the ACM Digital Library or not.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Agent design and modeling of:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conversational behavior</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Social perception</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Machine learning approaches to agent modeling</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Models informed by theoretical and empirical research in psychology</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Engagement</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multi-party interaction</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Portability and reuse</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Specialized tools, toolkits and toolchains</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Migration of agents between platforms</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Note: IVA 2025 will as usual have workshops/tutorials and a doctoral consortium. Details on submissions can be found at the web site:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/" title="https://iva.acm.org/2025/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://iva.acm.org/2025/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Full paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the "ACM Standard" format, more specifically the "SigConf" format.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The LaTeX template for the "ACM Standard"/"SigConf" format can be found inside the official ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version (2.12) available at: <br>
<a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" title="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template"><span style="color:#666666">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The "ACM Standard" Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the "Interim Word Template"
instead:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx" title="https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving
Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.” </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment
to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All submissions should be in PDF-format.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please refer to the poster and demo CFPs for instructions for these formats.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Detailed information about the review process, large language policy, and plagiarism can be found on the conference’s web page</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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