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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Merijn
Bruijnes, University of Twente</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="mailto:m.bruijnes@utwente.nl" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">m.bruijnes@utwente.nl</span></a></p>
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Linssen, University of Twente</span></p>
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Heylen, University of Twente</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:d.k.j.heylen@utwente.nl" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline"></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#800080; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Interactive
technology, such as virtual agents, to </span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">train social skills</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">
can improve training curricula. For example police officers can train for interviewing suspects or detecting deception with a virtual agent. Other examples of application areas include (but are not limited to) social workers (training for dealing with broken
homes), psychiatrists (training for interviewing people with various difficulties / vulnerabilities / personalities), training of social skills such as job interviews, or social stress management.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">We
invite all researchers who investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of technology to submit their work to this special issue on Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST). With this technology we mean virtual agents for social skills training
and any supporting technology. The aim of this special issue is to give an overview of recent developments of interactive virtual agent applications with the goal: improving social skills. Research on VASST reaches across multiple research domains: intelligent
virtual agent, (serious) game mechanics, human factors, (social) signal processing, user-specific feedback mechanisms, automated education, and artificial intelligence.
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Scope</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">We
welcome (literature) studies describing the state-of-the-art for sensing user behaviour, reasoning about this behaviour, and generation of virtual agent behaviour in training scenarios. Topics related to VASST include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Recognition
and interpretation of (non)verbal social user behaviours;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Training
and fusion of user's signs detected in different modalities</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">User/student
profiling, such as level or training style preference;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Anonymously
processing of user data;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Dialogue
and turn-taking management;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Social-emotional
and cognitive models;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Automatic
improvement of knowledge representations;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Coordination
of signs to be displayed by the virtual agents in several modalities, </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Mechanics
to support learning, for example</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Feedback
or after action review;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Personalised
scenarios and dialogues;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Big
data approaches to enrich social interactions;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Other
topics dealing with innovations for VASST.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Paper
submission deadline: 30th October 2017</span></p>
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notifications: 15th January 2018</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Final
papers: 15th March 2018<br>
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Instructions</span></p>
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should be around 8-16 pages and must not have been previously published.</span></p>
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are requested to follow instructions for manuscript submission to the Journal of Multimodal User</span></p>
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(</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">)
and to submit manuscripts at the</span></p>
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link: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmui/. The article type to be selected is “Special</span></p>
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S.I. : VASST”.<br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Editor-in-Chief: Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, Univ. Paris South</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">2015 Impact Factor = 1.017</span><br>
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