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<div style="text-align:center"><font size="+3"><b>Workshop
IVA 2019<br>
</b></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font size="+3"><b>Brain
correlates for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction <br>
</b></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><br>
</b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"
align="center"><i><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">At ACM International Conference
of Virtual Agents, <a
class="gmail-m_-6567490703498536283moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org</a></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"
align="center"><i><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">July 2nd 2019, Paris-6
University, Paris, France</span></i></p>
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<div style="text-align:center"><i><font size="4"><br>
</font></i></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font size="+2"><i>Submission
deadline: 8th May</i></font><br>
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</span><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span
class="gmail-im"><b><u>Keywords:</u></b> cerebral
activities in human-human and human-machine
interaction, neurophysiological data, brain-computer
interfaces, virtual agents.<br>
<br>
<b>Overview</b><br>
</span>There is a longstanding tradition of research on
the relationships between language, cognition and the
human brain. Until recently, however, investigations in
this domain were limited to studying language production
or comprehension in talkers individually exposed to
highly controlled linguistic material. Over the last few
years, major advances have been simultaneously
accomplished in language sciences, computer sciences
(and more precisely human-agent interaction), cognitive
sciences and neurosciences, which have brought us on the
verge of a new research paradigm. These advances now
make it possible to explore language and the brain in
the context in which they both primarily develop, i.e.
social interactions. A better understanding of the brain
correlates of humans' interaction with natural and
artificial agents, in particular their commonalities and
differences, will enable the IVA community to explore
different questions such as objective evaluation methods
of the interaction, real-time detection of brain
activity, automatic adaptation of the virtual agent’s
behavior based on user’s cerebral activity, etc. <br>
<br>
The objective of the workshop is to gather research
studies on the cerebral activity related to
interaction. We do not limit the workshop topic to
human-virtual agent interaction, considering also works
on human-human interaction that could be relevant to a
better understanding of user’s experience during an
interaction with a virtual agent: <br>
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<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial">Cerebral
underpinnings of interactions (human-machine,
human-human and human-environment)</font></li>
<span class="gmail-im">
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial">Cerebral
underpinning of interactions with artificial
agents (robots, virtual agents) in different
environment: virtual reality, mixed reality,
augmented reality, etc.</font></li>
</span>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial">EEG,
fMRI, MEG for studying interaction with virtual
agents</font></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal"></span>Brain
computer interfaces for interaction with virtual
agents</font></font></li>
<span class="gmail-im">
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal"></span>EEG
in virtual reality</font></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal"></span>New
methods for investigating interaction in
ecological context</font><i><font face="Arial"><br>
</font></i></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">...<br>
<br>
</li>
</span>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Program</b><br>
In order to encourage exchanges between
participants, the workshop will consist in a
general poster session, plus an invited speaker
and a discussion panel, aiming at a synthesis of
the different research studies, and discussions
focusing on the perspectives of the domain. <br>
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<p><br>
<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Submission</b><br>
Participants are invited to submit short
papers (</font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2 pages,
excluding references) </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">describing either
research works or ongoing projects work related to the
topics of the workshop. Paper format details can be
found at </span><font color="#000000"><a
class="gmail-m_-6567490703498536283moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/"
target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/</a></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Papers
should be submitted via the EasyChair
system at <a
class="gmail-m_-6567490703498536283moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brainhva2019"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brainhva2019</a>.
At least one author of each accepted
paper will be required to attend the
workshop to present their work.<br>
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Important
Dates</b></font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><br>
<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
color="#990000"><b>May </b></font></font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><font
color="#990000"><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">8th</b><b
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: Submission
deadline</b></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><br>
<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">May </font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">31th</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: Deadline for
notifications sent to authors</span><br>
<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">June </font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2nd</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: Camera ready
copies due</span><br>
<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">July </font></span></font></font></font></span></font></font><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2nd</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: Workshop</span>
<p><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><span
lang="EN"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Program
committee</b><br>
Marc Cavazza - University of Greenwich,<br>
Maureen Clerc - BCI-Lift project lab,
Inria Sophia Antipolis<br>
Fabien Lotte – Potioc team, Inria
Bordeaux Sud-ouest<br>
David Sanders – University de Genève<br>
Philippe Schyns - Centre for Cognitive
Neuroimaging, University of Glasgow<br>
Noel Nguyen – LPL, ILCB, Aix-Marseille
University<br>
Thierry Chaminade – INT, ILCB,
Aix-Marseille University<br>
Philippe Blache – LPL, ILCB,
Aix-Marseille University<br>
Magalie Ochs – LIS, ILCB, Aix-Marseille
University<br>
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif">For any question, contact :<br>
Magalie Ochs: <a href="mailto:magalie.ochs@lis-lab.fr"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">magalie.ochs@lis-lab.fr</a></font></div>
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