[iva] IVA 2021: Call for Participation

[Hung-Hsuan Huang]

Dear Colleagues,
(Apologize for duplicates)

This year’s IVA is within two weeks! Please don’t forget to register
yourself and join the conference. The registration page is here:

https://sites.google.com/view/iva2021/registration

Conference period: September 14-17, 2021

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 three submission tracks. All accepted submission
were reviewed and included in the proceedings. Please check the conference’
technical program here:

https://sites.google.com/view/iva2021/program/technicalprogram

IVA 2021 features two invited talks from Dr. Mikio Nakano (CEO of C4A
Research Institute) who is very well-known in the field of dialogue
systems, and Dr. Youichiro Miyake (Lead AI Researcher, SQUARE ENIX) who is
very well-known researcher in Game AI field. For more details of the talks,
please check the following page:

https://sites.google.com/view/iva2021/program/invited

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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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