<div dir="ltr"> <h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt" id="m_-8540415344224239455gmail-m_3846972609348089125m_1714870886054135169gmail-docs-internal-guid-7cf47cd8-7fff-25d3-d1ff-481967ddacdb"><span style="font-size:23pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IVA2021<span style="font-size:23pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:23pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Workshops<span style="font-size:23pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </h1> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*****************************************************************************<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2nd call for Workshops <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACM 21th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">14th -17th September 2021<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Fukuchiyama, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, Japan:<a href="http://www.iva2021.org/?fbclid=IwAR0eNFt5swwhNPKBu5H7YNniuq9lUdeOZcPE6S4AT59LunWViX3Mm4CW9_Y" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(228,230,235);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.iva2021.org/</a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*****************************************************************************<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Convention is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVA 2021 will be held in Fukuchiyam<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a, Japan, 14th - 17th September 2021. <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WORKSHOPS<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The IVA 2021 organizing committee solicits proposals for full-day and half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The purpose of workshops is to provide an opportunity for participants from academia, industry, government and other related parties to present and discuss novel ideas on current and emerging topics relevant to intelligent virtual agents, their applications and emergent technologies.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops are scheduled for the first day of the conference, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">September 14, 2021. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Each workshop should be organized under a well-defined theme that focuses on emergi<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ng research areas,challenging problems and applications. Organizers have free control on the format, style as well as the building blocks of the workshop. Possible contents of a workshop include but are not limited to invited talks, regular papers/posters,panels, and other pragmatic alternatives. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage organizers to avoid a mini-conference format by <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(i) encouraging the submission of position papers and extended abstracts, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(ii) allowing plenty of time for discussions and debates, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(iii) organizing workshop panels. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers of accepted workshops are expected to announce the workshop and disseminate their call for papers,maintain the workshop website, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final workshop program. They are also required to prepare an informal set of workshop proceedings to be distributed with the registration materials at the main conference, with a proceedings format template provided by IVA 2021. Online hosting for the workshop papers should also be decided by workshop organizers. Workshop organizers may choose to form organizing or program committees to accomplish these tasks successfully. Workshop proposals should be sent to the IVA 2021. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops chairs and should contain the following information: <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">　The names, affiliations, and short bios of all the organizers, including the main contact organizer’s e-mail<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topic:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The title of the workshop and a maximum of four paragraphs that motivates the workshop, describe its topic, its target audience, and its relevance to IVA. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pre-Workshop Info: <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tentative names of invited speakers, reviewers, and panelists (if a panel will be organized) .</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For workshops previously held at IVA or other conferences, details on venue, attendance and number of submissions/accepted papers from past editions. </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For new workshops, a list of possible attendees/submissions and/or a justification of the expected attendees/submissions</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Info: <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The desired length of the workshop: full-day (~8 hours) or half-day (~4 hours). </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tentative program sketch, </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tentative descriptions of all the workshop components (panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions,invited talks, etc.)</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Post-Workshop Info:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The plan for the creation of a tangible outcome for this workshop. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Dates: <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop proposals: March 1, 2021 (23:59 UTC) <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2021 <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submit Workshop Proposals to: <a href="http://iva2021_workshops_at_ml.jaist.ac.jp" target="_blank">iva2021_workshops_at_ml.jaist.ac.jp</a> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Chairs <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick) <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shogo Okada (JAIST) </div>