[iva] Call for Workshops - International Conference on Virtual Agents (IVA2021)

[Daniel Rea]

 IVA2021
Call for Workshops(tentative based on CFW of IVA2020)



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1st call for Workshops
ACM 21th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
14th -17th September 2021

University of Fukuchiyama, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, Japan:

http://www.iva2021.org/
<http://www.iva2021.org/?fbclid=IwAR0eNFt5swwhNPKBu5H7YNniuq9lUdeOZcPE6S4AT59LunWViX3Mm4CW9_Y>

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Convention is the premier
international event for interdisciplinary research on the design,
application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a
specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVA 2021 will be held
in Fukuchiyama, Japan, 14th - 17th September 2021.



WORKSHOPS

The IVA 2021 organizing committee solicits proposals for full-day and
half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The
purpose of workshops is to provide an opportunity for participants from
academia, industry, government and other related parties to present and
discuss novel ideas on current and emerging topics relevant to intelligent
virtual agents, their applications and emergent technologies.

Workshops are scheduled for the first day of the conference, September 14,
2021.

Each workshop should be  organized under a  well-defined theme that
focuses on  emerging research areas,challenging problems and applications.
Organizers have free control on the format, style as well as the building
blocks of the workshop. Possible contents of a workshop include but are not
limited to invited talks, regular papers/posters,panels, and other
pragmatic alternatives.

We encourage organizers to avoid a mini-conference format by

(i) encouraging the submission of position papers and extended abstracts,

(ii) allowing plenty of time for discussions and debates,

(iii) organizing workshop panels.



Organizers of accepted workshops are expected to announce the workshop and
disseminate their call for papers,maintain the  workshop website, gather
submissions, conduct the  reviewing process and  decide upon  the  final
workshop program. They are also required to prepare an informal set of
workshop proceedings to be distributed with the  registration materials at
the  main  conference, with  a  proceedings format template provided by
IVA  2021. Online hosting for the workshop papers should also be decided by
workshop organizers. Workshop organizers may choose to form organizing or
program committees to accomplish these tasks successfully. Workshop
proposals should be sent to the IVA 2021.



Workshops chairs and should contain the following information:



Organizers: The names, affiliations, and  short  bios  of  all  the
organizers, including the  main  contact organizer’s e-mail

Topic: The title of the workshop and a maximum of four paragraphs that
motivates the workshop, describe its topic, its target audience, and its
relevance to IVA.

Pre-Workshop Info:

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   Tentative names of invited speakers, reviewers, and panelists (if a
   panel will be organized) .
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   For workshops previously held at IVA or other conferences, details on
   venue, attendance and number of submissions/accepted papers from past
   editions.
   -

   For new workshops, a list of possible attendees/submissions and/or a
   justification of the expected attendees/submissions

Workshop Info:

   -

   The desired length of the workshop: full-day (~8 hours) or half-day (~4
   hours).
   -

   Tentative program sketch,
   -

   Tentative descriptions of all the workshop components (panels,
   discussion sessions, poster sessions,invited talks, etc.)

Post-Workshop Info: The plan for the creation of a tangible outcome for
this workshop.



Submission Dates:

Workshop proposals: February 1, 2020 (23:59 UTC)

Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2021



Submit Workshop Proposals to: iva2021_workshops_at_ml.jaist.ac.jp



Best regards,

Workshop Chairs

Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick)

Shogo Okada (JAIST)
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