<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" 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=utf-8"> <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"> NEWS : DEADLINE EXTENSION! ***************************************************************************** Call for Submissions <o:p> </o:p> ACM 25th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents <o:p> </o:p> September 16-19, 2025, HTW, Berlin, Germany <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/">https://iva.acm.org/2025/</a> <o:p> </o:p> Important Dates <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Preliminary Full Paper Abstract Submission<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Submission Deadline: <s>4th April 2025</s> 14th April 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Full Paper Submissions<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Submission Deadline: <s>11</s><s>th</s><s> April 2025</s> 21st April 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Review Process<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Review Notification: <s>23</s><s>th</s><s> May 2025</s> 30th May 2025<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> For Conditionally Accepted Papers:<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="square"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level3 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Deadline Revised Version: <s>30</s><s>th</s><s> May 2025</s> 7th June 2025<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level3 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Final Notification of Acceptance:<s> 13</s><s>th</s><s> June 2025</s> 20th June 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Camera Ready Due: 14th July 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Scientific Demos and Artistic Projects <o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Submissions Deadline: May 30th, 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Scientific and Artistic Posters<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"> Submissions Deadline: June 6th, 2025<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </ul> All deadlines are anywhere on earth (23:59 UTC−12) <o:p> </o:p> Please refer to the poster and demo CFPs. <o:p> </o:p> ***************************************************************************** <o:p> </o:p> --------------- 2025 Intelligent Virtual Agents ----------- <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 Virtual Agents with social interaction capabilities.. <o:p> </o:p> IVA 2025, the 25th Annual Conference, will be held in Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2025. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities, including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, and gestures. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion, and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social interactions. IVA 2025 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. Aesthetics and Culture: This year’s theme explores how exploiting aesthetic principles and cultural nuances for Socially Interactive Agents fosters user trust, comfort, and willingness to engage. It also examines how culturally informed design cues reduce barriers and promote more intuitive, socially meaningful human-machine collaboration. IVA 2025 offers the following submission tracks: <o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"> Full papers: 4 to 8 pages (not including references): <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers">https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"> Posters: 2 to 3 pages (not including references): <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-scientific-and-artistic-posters-submissions/"> https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-scientific-and-artistic-posters-submissions/</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"> Demo & Artwork: 2 pages + visuals: <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-demos/">https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-demos</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul> <o:p> </o:p> CALL FOR FULL PAPERS 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. Interdisciplinary Format IVA is a highly interdisciplinary conference that recognizes varying publication norms across disciplines. For instance, conference publications are standard in Computer Science, while journal publications prevail in Psychology. To promote trans-disciplinary interaction, authors can decide whether their accepted full paper with the supplemental material will be included in the ACM Digital Library or not. SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: <o:p> </o:p> Agent design and modeling of:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Cognition<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Conversational behavior<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Social perception<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Machine learning approaches to agent modeling<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"> Models informed by theoretical and empirical research in psychology<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <h3 style="mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"> Multimodal interaction:<o:p></o:p></h3> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Face-to-face communication skills<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Engagement<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Multi-party interaction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"> Data-driven multimodal modeling<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <h3 style="mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"> Social agent architectures:<o:p></o:p></h3> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline"> Design criteria and design methodologies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline"> Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline"> Standards / measures to support interoperability<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline"> Portability and reuse<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline"> Specialized tools, toolkits and toolchains<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <h3 style="mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"> Evaluation methods and studies:<o:p></o:p></h3> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline"> Evaluation methodologies and user studies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline"> Ethical considerations and societal impact<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline"> Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline"> Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <h3 style="mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"> Applications:<o:p></o:p></h3> <ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline"> Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline"> Virtual agents in games and simulations<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline"> Social agents as tools in psychology<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline"> Migration of agents between platforms<o:p></o:p></li></ul> Note: IVA 2025 will as usual have workshops/tutorials and a doctoral consortium. Details on submissions can be found at the web site: <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/">https://iva.acm.org/2025/</a> <o:p> </o:p> <h2 style="margin:0in;text-align:justify">INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS</h2> <o:p> </o:p> Full paper 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;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline"> The LaTeX template for the "ACM Standard"/"SigConf" format can be found inside the official ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version (2.12) 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="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline"> 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="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline"> “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="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline"> “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. 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> All submissions should be in PDF-format. Please refer to the poster and demo CFPs for instructions for these formats. <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>