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href="https://react.lis-lab.fr/"
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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>
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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"><br>
</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">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>
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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"
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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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