[iva] [CFP] Call for LBR at IVA 2021

[Hung-Hsuan Huang]

*IVA 2021 Call for Late Breaking Reports*
(apologies for multiple postings)

The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference 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. IVAs are interactive
characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using
natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture.

IVA 2021 will be held ONLINE as a Virtual Conference and is organized by
the University of Fukuchiyama.

The special theme of IVA 2021 is: Intelligent Virtual Agents in a Global
Pandemic. COVID-19 has shown that interaction between users and socially
intelligent agents is essential to improve the design of interactive
applications and to support technology that aims at user-friendly socially
competent solutions. Through deeper understanding of the mechanisms that
underlie human cognition, emotion, and action in various human-human and
human-agent interactive situations, it is possible to advance the state of
the art, gain knowledge, and develop applications that address socially
important issues such as how to counter feelings of loneliness or break
information bubbles.

We invite submissions on cutting-edge research on the design, application,
and evaluation of IVAs, as well as basic research on 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. For a longer list of topics
see the IVA 2021 website. Special theme topics include but are not limited
to: experiments and methodological issues with Socially Interactive Agents
(SIA) and HRI research when interaction is restricted (such as during
Covid-19), IVAs for behavior change, IVAs for social inclusion/feelings of
loneliness, mental helper IVAs, IVA’s for deliberation and information
understanding, Cognitive aid IVA’s, and IVA aided education (remote)
education.

IVA 2021 offers the opportunity to submit late breaking reports this year.
These are 2 pages, excluding 1 optional extra page for references only. LBR
should present latest results, new ideas, or preliminary research that
would benefit from discussion at the conference.

IMPORTANT: IN EASYCHAIR USE THE *LBR* *PAPER TYPE* WHEN SUBMITTING.

LBR submissions will be assessed for novelty and suitability for
presentation at the conference during a special LBR session. Accepted LBR
submissions will *not* be published in the IVA ACM proceedings. They will
be collected and published online at the IVA website. For each accepted LBR
contribution at least one of the authors must register for the conference.
The presentation type will be either a poster or talk format depending on
what is the most appropriate format for the contribution. All posters have
to be pitched during a plenary poster booster session (poster madness).

*LBR Deadlines (anywhere on earth)*

LBR Submission deadline: August 15, 2021
LBR acceptance notification: September 1, 2021.
Conference: September 14-17, 2021

*Website and submission instructions*
http://www.iva2021.org

Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva2021

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Hung-Hsuan Huang (黄 宏軒) Ph.D.
Professor,
Faculty of Informatics,
The University of Fukuchiyama,
Azahori 3370, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto 620-0886, Japan
Tel: +81-773-24-7110
E-mail: hhhuang at acm.org
Homepage: http://iislab-fukuchiyama-u.jpn.org/
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