<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body dir="auto"> <div></div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2016 (IVA2016) </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">September 20-23, 2016</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Los Angeles, California</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://iva2016.ict.usc.edu">http://iva2016.ict.usc.edu</a></div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">----------------------------------------------------------------------- </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">IMPORTANT DATES </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">GALA: Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents Video Gala </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Submission deadline: Extended until August 15, 2016</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">August 8, 2016</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Author notification: August 19, 2016</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://iva2016.ict.usc.edu/video-gala/">http://iva2016.ict.usc.edu/video-gala/</a></div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">CONFERENCE </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Intelligent virtual agents are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also encouraged to share work with a relevance to intelligent virtual agents. </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">VIDEO GALA</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">The GALA, "Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents," is an annual festival to showcase the latest animated lifelike agents created by university students, academic and/or industrial research groups. The goals of the GALA are manifold:</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">• To provide a forum to present and evaluate the state-of-the-art in the technology of virtual humans and innovative applications;</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">• To disseminate research, by establishing an ever evolving GALA Gallery (a repository at a permanent web location) of virtual humans for study and re-use;</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">• To stimulate students to work on virtual humans.</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">An international jury will select entries for the GALA Gallery. The presentation of the best entries and announcement of the awards will take place at the GALA Final, which is coupled with a prestigious conference each year. This year the GALA Final will take place at the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA 2016, 20-23 September 2016, in Los Angeles, California, United States.</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">SUBMISSION DETAILS</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">The GALA event is primarily a video showcase of "short" projects involving animated lifelike agents (under one of the topics of the main conference). The main submission is a video, with an optional short paper. It is open to students and industry as well as academic institutions. Researchers are also encouraged to submit demos, which will feature particular applications of Intelligent Virtual Agents, as well as tools for their development. The submission should include a short paper explaining the main contributions of the demo, and a small video illustrating the demo to be conducted at IVA.</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">Submit a one page PDF with a description of the video and details of the encoding, author names, affiliations, and a download link. The international jury will invite the selected entries to be demonstrated at the GALA Final in public, as well as a high quality version of the video for the GALA presentation.</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">PDF papers and links to videos should be sent to GALA chair, Ari Shapiro, <a href="mailto:shapiro@ict.usc.edu">shapiro@ict.usc.edu</a>. The GALA event will host a Jury Award as well as an Audience Award.</div> <div id="AppleMailSignature">You are welcome to submit a GALA video even if you have already submitted a paper or poster with similar content.</div> <div><br> </div> </div> </blockquote> <style></style> </body> </html>