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NEW DEADLINE: 26 May 2017 </div>
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Submissions Deadline: 14 April 2017 --> 26 May 2017 (NEW DEADLINE) </div>
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Author Notification: 3 July 2017 </div>
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Camera Ready Version: 10 July 2017 </div>
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CONFERENCE </div>
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IVAs are interactive digital characters that exhibit human-like qualities and can communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities like facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion
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The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for resenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) with a focus on
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IVA 2017's special topic is 'Situated Intelligent Agents', that is, agents that have awareness of and/or make use of their environment (physical or virtual). The theme will address the synergies between agents with different embodiments, from embodied virtual
characters to social robots. Advances in both domains require the development of computational capabilities that allow robots and virtual characters to engage in those direct, unstructured and dynamically evolving social interactions that characterise humans. </div>
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We will particularly welcome contributions that address the cross-fertilization of state-of-the-art insights and methods from the domains of embodied virtual characters, computer games, social robotics, and social sciences in order to support the development
of skills necessary to enable the vision of designing better machines capable of achieving better action, better awareness and better interaction to engage in intuitive, lifelike, sustained encounters with individuals and groups. </div>
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Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA </div>
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GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST </div>
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Design, Modeling and Evaluation </div>
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* design criteria and design methodologies </div>
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* evaluation methodologies and user studies </div>
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* ethical considerations and societal impact </div>
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* applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics) </div>
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* improvisational or dramatic interaction </div>
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* dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior </div>
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* models of multimodal perception and action </div>
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* models of emotionally communicative behavior </div>
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* models of conversational behavior </div>
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* models of narrative and storytelling </div>
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* theoretical foundations and formal models </div>
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* learned, evolved or emergent behavior </div>
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Implementation and Applications of IVAs </div>
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* software engineering issues </div>
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* real-time integrated systems </div>
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* portability and reuse standards / measures to support interoperability </div>
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* specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains </div>
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* specialized modeling and animation technologies </div>
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* applications in games, education, art, etc. </div>
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* delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented or mixed reality, robots </div>
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Jonas Beskow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology </div>
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Christopher Peters, KTH Royal Institute of Technology </div>
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Ginevra Castellano, Uppsala University </div>
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Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin </div>
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Candace Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute </div>
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Björn Thuresson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology </div>
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Maurizio Mancini, Università degli Studi di Genova </div>
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