[iva] Call for participation: Workshop on Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST)

[j.m.linssen at utwente.nl]

Call for participation: Workshop on Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST)

This workshop will be held as part of the INTETAIN 2016 conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 28-30, 2016:http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/home

Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST) Workshop @ INTETAIN 2016
The VASST workshop aims to give an overview of recent developments of interactive virtual agent applications that are intended for training the social skills of the user. Here a virtual agent takes the role of a training actor in a role playing exercise enabling the user to practice his or her social skills. This technology requires thorough knowledge from multiple research domains, e.g., (serious) game mechanics, human factors, (social) signal processing, user-specific feedback mechanisms, and artificial intelligence. When successfully combined, these novel interaction paradigms can impact the serious gaming industry.

We welcome small, innovative, unpublished research describing the state-of-the-art for all factors relevant to interaction with VASST, such as literature studies, user studies, design concepts and position papers. The range of relevant topics includes, but is not limited to:
-          Dialogues with virtual agents;
-          The use of big data approaches to investigate and enrich interactions;
-          Recognition and interpretation of nonverbal social behaviors;
-          Design of feedback to improve user performance;
-          Social-emotional & cognitive computational models;
-          User profiling;
-          Knowledge representations of virtual agents and automatic improvement of these representations based on interactions;
-          Other topics dealing with innovations for VASST.

Workshop Organizers
Merijn Bruijnes - University of Twente, the Netherlands
Jeroen Linssen - University of Twente, the Netherlands

Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: 30 March, 2016
Deadline for position papers: 1 June, 2016
Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2016
Workshop: afternoon 30 June, 2016

Program Committee
- Merijn Bruijnes, UT
- Jeroen Linssen, UT
- Tibor Bosse, VU
- Joost Broekens, TUD
- Marieke Peeters, 4TU H&T
- Isabel Alexandre, ISCTE Portugal

Website
http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/vasst-2016


Jeroen Linssen | Researcher | Human Media Interaction | University of Twente | jmlin.eu/phd<http://jmlin.eu/phd> | +31 53 489 3996


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