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id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a52a9670-7fff-f7bc-6980-90754f88c033">
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a
            href="https://react.lis-lab.fr/"
            style="text-decoration-line:none"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://react.lis-lab.fr/</span></a></p>
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        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Aim
            of the workshop.</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Intelligent
            Virtual Agents are increasingly used to embody roles
            potentially involving strong socio-emotional relationships,
            such as friends, companions, or therapists. As IVAs enter
            society, they should act ethically toward humans.</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
          </span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The
            workshop objective is to gather researchers and developers
            of IVAs to discuss and identify the ethical issues in the
            modelization, implementation, and evaluation of IVAs to
            prevent discrimination. </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We
            consider all types of discrimination (gender, race, age,
            disabilities, etc.). At the workshop, we aim to investigate
            different aspects by exploring the risks and benefits of
            IVAs concerning discrimination.</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
          </span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The
            workshop’s objective is to learn about each other’s work and
            collaboratively address challenges in particular concerning:</span></p>
        <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr" role="presentation"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the present and prospective risks of IVAs in terms of discrimination; </span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr" role="presentation"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the present and prospective benefits of using IVAs to prevent discrimination; </span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr" role="presentation"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">guidelines and principles on how IVAs should behave and be used, and the study of the potential socio-cultural biases behind such guidelines;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr" role="presentation"
          style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">guidelines and principles on how to model the appearance and behavior of IVAs to prevent bias, stereotypes, and discriminating behavior</span></p></li>
        </ul>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call
            for paper</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We
            encourage contributions of (ongoing) research from different
            fields, including human-computer interaction, psychology,
            and education, concerning studies on:</span></p>
        <br>
        <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the stereotypes that virtual agents can convey through their multimodal behavior  and the discriminating behaviors that may be adopted by virtual agents;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the stereotypes that users attribute to IVAs depending on their multimodal behavior;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the potential impacts of interactions with stereotyped or discriminating virtual agents on the user’s behaviors outside the virtual worlds;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the detection of biases and stereotypes in the models integrated into virtual agents (e.g. LLM-based dialog model) ;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the discriminations of users against virtual agents;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the perspectives on the use of IVAs to prevent stereotypes and discrimination (for instance with training systems) ;</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
          dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
          role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The impact of socio-cultural characteristics (e.g. age, gender, culture) on the perception of stereotypes and discriminations. </span></p></li>
        </ul>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Important
            dates</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop
            paper submission deadline: </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strike>June
              29, 2024</strike>  </span><font color="#ff0000"><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
              July 20th</span><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike><br>
              </strike></span></font></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notifications:
            August 16, 2024</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Deadline
            for Camera ready version: September 02, 2024</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop:
            September 19, 2024</span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submission
            format: max 6 pages (excluded references).</span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The
            submitted contribution must be written in English and should
            be anonymized. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by two
            anonymous, independent reviewers. </span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please
            submit your contribution via e-mail to  </span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a
              href="mailto:react@lis-lab.fr"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">react@lis-lab.fr</a></span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">as
            a PDF, using the predefined using the predefined CEUR
            template (<a href="https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip</a>)
            (an Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available: </span><a
            href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt"
            style="text-decoration-line:none"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt</span></a><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">).
            The accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s
            proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (<a
              href="http://ceur-ws.org/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://ceur-ws.org/</a>).</span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Authors
            of accepted submissions will be invited to give an oral
            presentation or to present a poster of their work.</span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In
            submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors
            acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content
            has been submitted to another conference or workshop.</span></p>
        <br>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Organizers
            : </span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Magalie
            Ochs - Aix Marseille Université (contact person)</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Chloé
            Clavel - INRIA Paris</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Catherine
            Pelachaud</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
          </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">-
            CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université</span></p>
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