<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div> <div> <o:p></o:p> *****************************************************************************<o:p></o:p> Call for Submissions<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> ACM 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> September 16-19, 2024, University of Glasgow, Scotland<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2024/">https://iva.acm.org/2024/</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> *****************************************************************************<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Submission Date: 5th April 2024<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ---------------<o:p></o:p> 2024 Intelligent Virtual Agents <o:p></o:p> ---------------<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference 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.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> IVA 2024, the 24th Annual Conference, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 16-19, 2024. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Note IVA 2024 will be co-located with the conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), with select joint sessions and social events and the ability to attend ACII paper sessions. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social interactions. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> IVA 2024 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications.<o:p></o:p> IVA 2024 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, not including references) and Extended Abstracts (3 pages, not including references).<o:p></o:p> All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by expert reviewers. All accepted full paper submissions will be presented orally and published in the proceedings. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented as a talk or a poster, depending on the outcome of the review process. Accepted extended abstracts will also be published in the proceedings, unless the authors do not want it published.<o:p></o:p> Interdisciplinary Format<o:p></o:p> IVA is traditionally a highly interdisciplinary conference. As part of ensuring that, IVA 2024 will account for different publication norms across disciplines. For example, conference publication is a norm in Computer Science whereas journal publications are the norm in Psychology. To accommodate these differences while fostering trans-disciplinary interaction, accepted extended abstracts may be selected for oral presentation in addition to the standard of a poster presentation. Also, authors of extended abstracts will have the option of whether their abstract publication is archival.<o:p></o:p> SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS<o:p></o:p> IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Agent design and modeling of:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Cognition<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Conversational behavior<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Social perception<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Machine learning approaches to agent modeling<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior <o:p></o:p></li><li class="li6" style="mso-list:l24 level1 lfo14">Models informed by theoretical and empirical research in psychology<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Multimodal interaction:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Face-to-face communication skills<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Engagement<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Multi-party interaction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li6" style="mso-list:l17 level1 lfo15">Data driven multimodal modeling<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Social agent architectures:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l15 level1 lfo16">Design criteria and design methodologies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l15 level1 lfo16">Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l15 level1 lfo16">Standards / measures to support interoperability<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l15 level1 lfo16">Portability and reuse<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li6" style="mso-list:l15 level1 lfo16">Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Evaluation methods and studies:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l23 level1 lfo17">Evaluation methodologies and user studies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l23 level1 lfo17">Ethical considerations and societal impact<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l23 level1 lfo17">Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li6" style="mso-list:l23 level1 lfo17">Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Applications:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo18">Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo18">Virtual agents in games and simulations<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo18">Social agents as tools in psychology<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li6" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo18">Migration of agents between platforms<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Special Theme<o:p></o:p> A special theme this year at IVA will be on the use of multimodal machine learning and large language/foundation models in agent design and implementation, as well as comparison of these techniques to alternative approaches. These advances promise to make virtual agents more robust, human-like and capable of autonomous open-ended interaction. At the same time these advances can raise critical ramifications for the design process�s ability to ensure the behavior of the agent is appropriately circumscribed for an application. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Note: IVA 2024 will as usual have a doctoral consortium, workshops and demos. Details on submissions can be found at the web site: <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2024/">https://iva.acm.org/2024/</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS<o:p></o:p> Paper and extended abstract submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the "ACM Standard" format, more specifically the "SigConf" format.<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li8" style="mso-list:l18 level1 lfo19">The LaTeX template for the "ACM Standard"/"SigConf" format can be found inside the official 2017 ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version (1.65) available at: <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="li8" style="mso-list:l18 level1 lfo19">The "ACM Standard" Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the "Interim Word Template" instead: <a href="https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout-.docx"> https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout-.docx</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="li8" style="mso-list:l18 level1 lfo19">By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li8" style="mso-list:l18 level1 lfo19">Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <o:p> </o:p> IVA 2024 accepts two types of submissions:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l21 level1 lfo20">Full papers: 8 pages (not including references)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l21 level1 lfo20">Extended abstracts: 3 pages (not including references)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> All submissions should be in PDF-format.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Important Dates<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l13 level1 lfo21">Preliminary abstract submissions (mandatory, to assign reviewers)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l12 level2 lfo22">Submission Deadline: 28th March 2024 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l10 level1 lfo23">Papers and Extended Abstracts Submission<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l4 level2 lfo24">Submission Deadline: 5th April 2024 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo25">Review Process<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle"> <li class="li1" style="mso-list:l22 level2 lfo26">Initial Review Notification/Start Rebuttal Phase: 10th May 2024<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l22 level2 lfo26">Rebuttals Due: 17th May 2024 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l22 level2 lfo26">Notification of acceptance: 7th June 2024<o:p></o:p></li><li class="li1" style="mso-list:l22 level2 lfo26">Camera Ready Due: 7th July 2024 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </ul> <o:p></o:p> General Chairs: <a href="mailto:generalchairs@iva.acm.org">generalchairs@iva.acm.org</a><o:p></o:p> Rachael Jack (University of Glasgow, UK) <o:p></o:p> Mathieu Chollet (University of Glasgow, UK) <o:p></o:p> Ruth Aylett (Heriot Watt University, UK)<o:p></o:p> Program Chairs: <a href="mailto:programmchairs@iva.acm.org">programmchairs@iva.acm.org</a><o:p></o:p> Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University, USA) Gale Lucas (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA) <o:p></o:p> Stacy Marsella (Northeastern University, USA)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Demo Chairs: <a href="mailto:demochairs@iva.acm.org">demochairs@iva.acm.org </a>Stef�n �lafsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland). <o:p></o:p> Pablo Arias Sarah (University of Glasgow, UK) <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Workshop Chairs: <a href="mailto:workshopchairs@iva.acm.org">workshopchairs@iva.acm.org</a><o:p></o:p> Beatrice Biancardi (LINEACT CESI, France) <o:p></o:p> Patrick Gebhard (DFKI Saarbr�cken, Germany) <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Proceedings Chairs: <a href="mailto:proceedingschairs@iva.acm.org">proceedingschairs@iva.acm.org </a>Thilina Latitharatne (Queen Mary University of London, UK) <o:p></o:p> Florian Pecune (University of Bordeaux, France) <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Doctoral Consortium Chairs: <a href="mailto:doctoralconsortiumchairs@iva.acm.org"> doctoralconsortiumchairs@iva.acm.org </a>Hannes H�gni Vilhj�lmsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland) <o:p></o:p> Laura Hensel (University of Glasgow, UK) <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Local Chairs: <a href="mailto:localchairs@iva.acm.org"> localchairs@iva.acm.org </a>Mary Ellen Foster (University of Glasgow, UK) <o:p></o:p> Sponsor Chairs: <a href="mailto:sponsorchair@iva.acm.org"> sponsorchair@iva.acm.org</a><o:p></o:p> Jonas Beskow (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, Sweden)<o:p></o:p> Web Chairs: <a href="mailto:webchair@iva.acm.org"> webchair@iva.acm.org</a><o:p></o:p> Brian Ravenet (LISN-CNRS, Universit� Paris-Saclay, France) <o:p></o:p> Tanja Schneeberger (DFKI Saarbr�cken, Germany ) <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> --<o:p></o:p> Timothy W. 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