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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call for participation: Workshop on Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This workshop will be held as part of the INTETAIN 2016 conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 28-30, 2016:<a href="http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/home"><span style="color:#954F72">http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/home</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST) Workshop @ INTETAIN 2016</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The VASST workshop aims to give an overview of recent developments of interactive virtual agent applications that are intended for training the social skills of the user. Here a virtual agent takes the role of a training
actor in a role playing exercise enabling the user to practice his or her social skills. This technology requires thorough knowledge from multiple research domains, e.g., (serious) game mechanics, human factors, (social) signal processing, user-specific feedback
mechanisms, and artificial intelligence. When successfully combined, these novel interaction paradigms can impact the serious gaming industry.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We welcome small, innovative, unpublished research describing the state-of-the-art for all factors relevant to interaction with VASST, such as literature studies, user studies, design concepts and position papers. The
range of relevant topics includes, but is not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Dialogues with virtual agents;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">The use of big data approaches to investigate and enrich interactions;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Recognition and interpretation of nonverbal social behaviors;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design of feedback to improve user performance;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Social-emotional & cognitive computational models;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">User profiling;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge representations of virtual agents and automatic improvement
of these representations based on interactions;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Other topics dealing with innovations for VASST.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Workshop Organizers</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Merijn Bruijnes - University of Twente, the Netherlands</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jeroen Linssen - University of Twente, the Netherlands</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for submissions: 30 March, 2016</span></s><s><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for position papers: 1 June, 2016</span></s><s><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2016</span></s><s><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Workshop: afternoon 30 June, 2016</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Program Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Merijn Bruijnes, UT</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Jeroen Linssen, UT<br>
- Tibor Bosse, VU<br>
- Joost Broekens, TUD<br>
- Marieke Peeters, 4TU H&T<br>
- Isabel Alexandre, ISCTE Portugal</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Website</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/vasst-2016"><span style="color:#954F72">http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/vasst-2016</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:NL">Jeroen Linssen | Researcher | Human Media Interaction | University of Twente |
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