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<span style="font-kerning: none"><b><i>The 1st International Workshop on Design Fiction for Intelligent Virtual Agents </i></b><b><i></i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">@ <a href="https://iva.acm.org/2025/"><span style="font-kerning: none; color: rgb(131, 75, 106);">IVA 2025</span></a>, Berlin, Germany *** 16th September 2025</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">The 1st International Workshop on Design Fiction for Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) should explore and anticipate ethical, aesthetic, and cultural implications, as well as explore possible evaluation methods for the future
of IVAs using design fiction. Participants will create speculative narratives to examine future interactions, stereotypes, and societal impact.</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Virtual companions, a type of intelligent virtual agent (IVA), have become more common and advanced in the past two years, driven by generative AI and large language models. There is a concern that commercial virtual companions
may lead to ethical issues, particularly regarding privacy, user data, emotional impact, and stereotypical visual representations. This concern has motivated us to propose a workshop on the theme of design fiction for IVA, a method for exploring the future
development of virtual companions to identify potential risks and opportunities. Design fiction can also be a co-design activity together with users.</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">We welcome submissions from a broad range of disciplines such as engineering, computer science, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, art, and design. Topics include, but are not limited to: </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">- Virtual Agent Design</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">- Ethics </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">- Speculative Explorations of the Futures of Virtual Agents</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">- Cultural Differences in Virtual Agent Acceptance</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none"><b>IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop Papers (2-4 pages)</b><b></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">22nd July 2025: Paper Submissions</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">28th July 2025: Notifications</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none"><b>ORGANIZERS</b><b></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Negin Hashmati, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Gemma Serrano, Collège des Bernardins, France</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Bordeaux University, France</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Florian Pecune, Bordeaux University, France</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Therése Skoog, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Mohammad Obaid, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none">Thommy Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</span></p>
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Kind Regards, </p>
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<div>Mohammad Obaid<br>
Associate Professor of HCI<br>
Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>
Chalmers University of Technology<br>
Gothenburg, Sweden</div>
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