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<div><font face="Helvetica">Workshop on Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017)</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">27 August</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Stockholm, Sweden</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">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).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">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).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">PARTICIPATION</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">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 <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peach2017" target="_blank">
EasyChair website</a> for the conference (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peach2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peach2017</a>). See the
<a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017" target="_blank">workshop website</a> (<a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017" target="_blank">http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017</a>) for further submission details. There will be no workshop proceedings, but we will make
accepted submissions available on the workshop website after the workshop upon request of the authors.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">TOPICS</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">This workshop invites researchers, designers, and developers that are interested in questions such as:</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What are effective and acceptable strategies for these agents?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How can agents enhance adherence?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How to bootstrap agents’ adaptiveness when this is data driven?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><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?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Ethics and persuasion: how to balance them?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Do explainable agents contribute to persuasiveness?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What are easy and effective frameworks for establishing embodied agents?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How can professionals and agents work together in supporting users?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How do you create a natural interaction with an embodied agent?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><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?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- How to establish alliance between agent and the user?</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- What kind of emotion models are helpful in human-agent interactions?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">These agents can be part of systems, such as:</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Simulated patient training systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Care robots</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Negotiation training systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- eLearning systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Self-management health support systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Financial coaching system</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Virtual health agents</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Therapeutic systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Health apps</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Social robots</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">IMPORANT DATES</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">Paper submission: July 19, 2017</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Acceptance notification: July 26, 2017</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Workshop: August 27, 2017</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">Femke Beute - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Robbert Jan Beun - Utrecht University, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Timothy Bickmore - Northeastern University, USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Tibor Bosse - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Joost Broekens - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Franziska Burger - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">John-Jules Ch. Meyer - Utrecht University, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Mark A. Neerincx - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Rifca Peters - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Albert 'Skip' Rizzo - University of Southern California, USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Khiet Truong - University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica">Roelof de Vries - University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div>
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