[iva] Fwd: IVA PEACH2017: Call for Papers

[Franziska Burger]

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Workshop on Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017)
27 August
Stockholm, Sweden

http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017
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This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent
Virtual agents (http://iva2017.org/). The workshop will take place on the
day before the main conference (27th of August 2017).


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Persuasive embodied agents can play an active role in supporting people in
changing their behavior, emotion, or attitude. These agents can be part of
training systems, ehealth systems, or decision systems. They help people in
establishing, reinforcing, or altering behaviors. Embodiment, such as in
physical robots or graphical characters, can help to elicit social
responses and make these systems more persuasive and accessible. Key in
their interaction with individuals are therefore agents' postures,
gestures, and emotions, but also their conversational dialogue styles.
Adaptiveness to users and situations is also pursued to strengthen their
effectiveness in teaching individuals new skills or modifying their
lifestyle.



This full day workshop focuses on embodied agents that are used for
assessment, coaching, training, rehabilitation, or treatment of
individuals, both professionals (e.g. doctors, soldiers, teachers, or
managers), or non-professionals (e.g. patients, children, or elderly).


We intend to structure the workshop in such a way that participants with
accepted contributions first present their research. We then split the
audience into smaller groups to brainstorm on a question/matter of concern
to the presenter. You can thus see this as a chance to get valuable input,
but also, for example, to have participants examine your questionnaire,
review your system, or reflect on your research vision. Note that it is for
this reason that we also welcome research at early stages.



PARTICIPATION

This is a full-day workshop. Researchers that are interested in attending
the workshop are asked to submit a position paper of their
work. Workshop members are invited to present their research and strongly
encouraged to demonstrate their agents. Submissions can be submitted at the
EasyChair website for the conference (https://easychair.org/confere
nces/?conf=peach2017). See the workshop website (
http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017) for further submission details. There will
be no workshop proceedings, but we will make accepted submissions available
on the workshop website upon request of the authors.




TOPICS



This workshop invites researchers, designers, and developers that are
interested in questions such as:


   - What are effective and acceptable strategies for these agents?
   - How can agents enhance adherence?
   - How to bootstrap agents’ adaptiveness when this is data driven?
   - What are effective strategies to establish a long-term relationship
   between the agent and individual?
   - Ethics and persuasion: how to balance them?
   - Do explainable agents contribute to persuasiveness?
   - What are easy and effective frameworks for establishing embodied
   agents?
   - How can professionals and agents work together in supporting users?
   - How do you create a natural interaction with an embodied agent?
   - When and how can agents use an enforcing and balancing feedback loop
   to regulate someone’s behavior?
   - How to establish alliance between agent and the user?
   - What kind of emotion models are helpful in human-agent interactions?


These agents can be part of systems, such as:


   - Simulated patient training systems
   - Care robots
   - Negotiation training systems
   - eLearning systems
   - Self-management health support systems
   - Financial coaching system
   - Virtual health agents
   - Therapeutic systems
   - Health apps
   - Social robots


IMPORANT DATES

Paper submission: July 19, 2017
Acceptance notification: July 26, 2017
Workshop: August 27, 2017


ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE



Femke Beute - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Robbert Jan Beun - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Timothy Bickmore - Northeastern University, USA

Tibor Bosse - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joost Broekens - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Franziska Burger - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

John-Jules Ch. Meyer - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Mark A. Neerincx - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Rifca Peters - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Albert 'Skip' Rizzo - University of Southern California, USA

Khiet Truong - University of Twente, The Netherlands

Roelof de Vries - University of Twente, The Netherlands
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