<html dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" id="owaParaStyle" class="--apng-checked"></style> </head> <body fpstyle="1" ocsi="0"> <div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"> <div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Workshop on Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change</div> <div>Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017)</div> <div>27 August</div> <div>Stockholm, Sweden</div> <div><br> </div> <div>http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017</div> <div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div> <div><br> </div> <div>This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual agents (http://iva2017.org/). The workshop will take place on the day before the main conference (27th of August 2017).</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Persuasive embodied agents can play an active role in supporting people in changing their behavior, emotion, or attitude. These agents can be part of training systems, ehealth systems, or decision systems. They help people in establishing, reinforcing, or altering behaviors. Embodiment, such as in physical robots or graphical characters, can help to elicit social responses and make these systems more persuasive and accessible. Key in their interaction with individuals are therefore agents' postures, gestures, and emotions, but also their conversational dialogue styles. Adaptiveness to users and situations is also pursued to strengthen their effectiveness in teaching individuals new skills or modifying their lifestyle.</div> <div> </div> <div>This full day workshop focuses on embodied agents that are used for assessment, coaching, training, rehabilitation, or treatment of individuals, both professionals (e.g. doctors, soldiers, teachers, or managers), or non-professionals (e.g. patients, children, or elderly).</div> <div><br> </div> <div>We intend to structure the workshop in such a way that participants with accepted contributions first present their research. We then split the audience into smaller groups to brainstorm on a question/matter of concern to the presenter. You can thus see this as a chance to get valuable input, but also, for example, to have participants examine your questionnaire, review your system, or reflect on your research vision. Note that it is for this reason that we also welcome research at early stages.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>PARTICIPATION</div> <div><br> </div> <div>This is a full-day workshop. Researchers that are interested in attending the workshop are asked to submit a (position) paper of their work. Workshop members are invited to present their research and strongly encouraged to demonstrate their agents. Submissions can be submitted at the EasyChair website for the conference (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peach2017). See the workshop website (http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017) for further submission details. There will be no workshop proceedings, but we will make accepted submissions available on the workshop website upon request of the authors.</div> <div><br> </div> <div> </div> <div>TOPICS</div> <div> </div> <div>This workshop invites researchers, designers, and developers that are interested in questions such as:</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What are effective and acceptable strategies for these agents?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How can agents enhance adherence?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How to bootstrap agents’ adaptiveness when this is data driven?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What are effective strategies to establish a long-term relationship between the agent and individual?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Ethics and persuasion: how to balance them?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Do explainable agents contribute to persuasiveness?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What are easy and effective frameworks for establishing embodied agents?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How can professionals and agents work together in supporting users?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How do you create a natural interaction with an embodied agent?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- When and how can agents use an enforcing and balancing feedback loop to regulate someone’s behavior?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How to establish alliance between agent and the user?</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What kind of emotion models are helpful in human-agent interactions?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>These agents can be part of systems, such as:</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Simulated patient training systems</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Care robots</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Negotiation training systems</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- eLearning systems</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Self-management health support systems</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Financial coaching system</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Virtual health agents</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Therapeutic systems</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Health apps</div> <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Social robots</div> <div><br> </div> <div>IMPORANT DATES</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Paper submission: July 19, 2017</div> <div>Acceptance notification: July 26, 2017</div> <div>Workshop: August 27, 2017</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div> <div> </div> <div>Femke Beute - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>Robbert Jan Beun - Utrecht University, The Netherlands</div> <div>Timothy Bickmore - Northeastern University, USA</div> <div>Tibor Bosse - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div> <div>Joost Broekens - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>Franziska Burger - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>John-Jules Ch. Meyer - Utrecht University, The Netherlands</div> <div>Mark A. Neerincx - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>Rifca Peters - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</div> <div>Albert 'Skip' Rizzo - University of Southern California, USA</div> <div>Khiet Truong - University of Twente, The Netherlands</div> <div>Roelof de Vries - University of Twente, The Netherlands</div> </div> </body> </html>