<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="SV" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> Apologies for any unintended cross-mailing -----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 3rd Call for Papers<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> August 27-30<o:p></o:p> Stockholm, Sweden<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> http://iva2017.org<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paper, Poster and Demo Submissions <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Submissions Deadline: 14 April 2017 <o:p> </o:p> Author Notification: 5 June 2017 <o:p></o:p> Camera Ready Version: 10 July 2017<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Video Gala<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Submission Deadline: 1 June 2017<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IVAs are interactive digital characters that exhibit human-like qualities and can <o:p></o:p> communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities like facial <o:p></o:p> expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, <o:p></o:p> emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is an <o:p></o:p> interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting <o:p></o:p> research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) with <o:p></o:p> a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> SPECIAL TOPIC<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IVA 2017's special topic is 'Situated Intelligent Agents', that is, agents that <o:p></o:p> have awareness of and/or make use of their environment (physical or virtual). The <o:p></o:p> theme will address the synergies between agents with different embodiments, from <o:p></o:p> embodied virtual characters to social robots. Advances in both domains require the <o:p></o:p> development of computational capabilities that allow robots and virtual characters <o:p></o:p> to engage in those direct, unstructured and dynamically evolving social interactions <o:p></o:p> that characterise humans.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> We will particularly welcome contributions that address the cross-fertilization of <o:p></o:p> state-of-the-art insights and methods from the domains of embodied virtual <o:p></o:p> characters, computer games, social robotics, and social sciences in order to support <o:p></o:p> the development of skills necessary to enable the vision of designing better machines <o:p></o:p> capable of achieving better action, better awareness and better interaction to engage <o:p></o:p> in intuitive, lifelike, sustained encounters with individuals and groups.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA<o:p></o:p> Iain Matthews, Oculus Research, USA<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Design, Modeling and Evaluation <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * design criteria and design methodologies <o:p></o:p> * evaluation methodologies and user studies <o:p></o:p> * ethical considerations and societal impact <o:p></o:p> * applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics) <o:p></o:p> * improvisational or dramatic interaction <o:p></o:p> * dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior <o:p></o:p> * models of multimodal perception and action <o:p></o:p> * models of emotionally communicative behavior <o:p></o:p> * models of conversational behavior <o:p> </o:p> * models of narrative and storytelling <o:p> </o:p> * theoretical foundations and formal models <o:p></o:p> * learned, evolved or emergent behavior <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Implementation and Applications of IVAs <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * software engineering issues <o:p></o:p> * real-time integrated systems <o:p></o:p> * portability and reuse standards / measures to support interoperability <o:p></o:p> * specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains <o:p></o:p> * specialized modeling and animation technologies <o:p></o:p> * applications in games, education, art, etc. <o:p></o:p> * delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented or <o:p></o:p> mixed reality, robots<o:p></o:p> * future or current experience in various fields, e.g. Interactive narrative <o:p></o:p> and story-telling, computer games, art and entertainment, education and training, <o:p></o:p> simulation and visualization<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> SUBMISSION DETAILS<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paper, Demo and Poster Submissions<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12 pages), short papers<o:p></o:p> (8 pages), or poster papers (4 pages). We also welcome demonstrations (4 pages; please <o:p></o:p> submit a short description including any requests for space or equipment). <o:p></o:p> Submissions should be anonymous and in Springer LNCS format. Detailed paper <o:p></o:p> author instructions will be available on the IVA 2017 website (http://iva2017.org). <o:p></o:p> All submissions should be made through the conference review system.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Workshops and Video Gala<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IVA will also feature workshops and a video Gala, which is a video <o:p></o:p> showcase of projects involving animated like-life agents. See this link for <o:p></o:p> examples of the Gala entries from IVA 2016: http://iva2016.ict.usc.edu/video-gala/. <o:p></o:p> The respective submission details for these events will be available nearer to the <o:p></o:p> conference date and will be announced in upcoming calls for papers on the conference<o:p></o:p> website (http://iva2017.org).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ORGANIZATION<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Conference Chairs<o:p></o:p> Jonas Beskow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p> Christopher Peters, KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p> Ginevra Castellano, Uppsala University <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Program Chairs<o:p></o:p> Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin<o:p></o:p> Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p> Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p> Candace Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute<o:p></o:p> Bj�rn Thuresson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Sponsorship Chair <o:p></o:p> Andr� Pereira, Furhat Robotics <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Posters & Demo Chair <o:p></o:p> Catharine Oertel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Gala Chair <o:p></o:p> Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Publications Chairs<o:p></o:p> Maurizio Mancini, Universit� degli Studi di Genova <o:p></o:p> Giovanna Varni, Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Publicity Chair <o:p></o:p> Maike Paetzel, Uppsala University <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Webmaster <o:p></o:p> Fangkai Yang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Senior Program Committee <o:p></o:p> Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University <o:p> </o:p> Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University <o:p></o:p> Joost Broekens, Delft University of Technology <o:p></o:p> Dirk Heylen, University of Twente <o:p></o:p> Jill Lehman, Disney Research Pittsburgh <o:p> </o:p> James Lester, North Carolina State <o:p></o:p> Stacy Marsella, Northeastern University <o:p> </o:p> Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University <o:p></o:p> Michael Neff, UC Davis <o:p></o:p> Ana Paiva, INESC-ID and University of Lisbon <o:p></o:p> Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Pierre et Marie Curie University<o:p></o:p> Laurel Riek, UC San Diego <o:p></o:p> Stefan Scherer, University of Southern California <o:p></o:p> Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p> Hannes Vilhj�lmsson, Reykjav�k University <o:p></o:p> Michael Young, University of Utah<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>