[iva] Final Call for Papers -- ACM IVA 2023 - NEW DEADLINE

[Catherine Pelachaud]

CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM IVA 2023

*NEW DEADLINE*
* Abstract submission: April 14, 2023*
* Paper submission: April 28, 2023*

  The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the 
premier international event for  interdisciplinary research on the 
development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents 
with the specific focus on the ability to socially interact. Such agents 
can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied 
conversational agents) or physically (e.g. robots). They are capable of 
real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action allowing them to 
participate in dynamic social  environments. This includes human-like 
interaction qualities such as multimodal communication using facial 
expressions, speech, and gesture, conversational interaction, socially 
assistive and affective interaction, interactive task-oriented 
cooperation, or social behaviour simulation. IVAs are highly relevant 
and widely applied in many important domains including health, tutoring, 
training, games, or assisted living.

We invite submissions of research on a broad range of topics, including 
but not limited to: theoretical foundations of intelligent virtual 
agents, agent and interactive behaviour modelling, evaluation, agents in 
simulations, games, and other applications. Please see the detailed list 
of topics below.


VENUE
======
IVA 2023 will take place in Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg is a vibrant 
town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt 
and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young 
population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 
students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate 
is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a 
beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or 
taking a stroll through one of the parks.

IVA is targeted to be an in-person conference. In case of extraordinary 
circumstances, such as visa problems or health issues, video 
presentation will be possible. However, there is no digital or hybrid 
conference system planned, thus it is not possible to attend this year’s 
IVA conference remotely.


  IMPORTANT DATES
  ===================
  Abstract submission: April 14, 2023
  Paper submission: April 18, 2023
  Review notification / start of rebuttal: May 31, 2023
  Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2023
  Camera ready deadline: July 18, 2023
  Conference: September 19-22, 2023
  All deadlines are anywhere on earth (UTC−12).


  TYPES OF SUBMISSION
  ===================
  - Full Papers (7 pages + 1 additional page for references): Full 
papers should present significant, novel, and substantial work of high 
quality.
  - Extended Abstracts (2 pages + 1 additional page for references): 
  Extended abstracts may contain early results and work in progress.
  - Demos (2 pages + 1 additional page for references +1 one page with 
demo requirements): Demos submissions focus on implemented systems and 
should contain a link to a video of the system
  with a maximum length of 5 minutes.

  All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by a group of 
external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in 
the ACM proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Accepted full papers 
will be presented either in oral sessions or as posters during the 
conference (depending on the nature of the contribution), extended 
abstracts will be presented as posters, and demos will be showcased in 
dedicated sessions during the conference. For each accepted 
contribution, at  least one of the authors must register for the conference.

  IVA 2023 will also feature workshops and a doctoral consortium. Please 
visit the website (https://iva.acm.org/2023) for more details and updates.


  TRACKS
========
For full paper submissions, IVA will have different paper tracks with 
different review criteria. Authors need to indicate which one of the 
following tracks they want to submit their paper to:

1. Empirical Studies — criteria: methodology, theoretical foundation, 
originality of result etc.
2. Computational Models and Methods — criteria: technical soundness, 
novelty of the model or approach, proof of concept, etc.
3. Operational Systems and Applications —  criteria: innovation of the 
application, societal relevance, evaluation of effects, etc.


  SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
  ========================
  IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not 
limited to:

  AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING:
  - Cognition (e.g. task, social, other)
  - Emotion, personality and cultural differences
  - Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, 
relationship)
  - Conversational and dialog behavior
  - Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits
  - Machine learning approaches to agent modeling
  - Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics
  - Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology

  MULTIMODAL INTERACTION:
  - Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis)
  - Multimodal/social behavior processing
  - Face-to-face communication skills
  - Interaction qualities engagement, rapport, etc.)
  - Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation
  - Multi-party interaction
  - Data-driven modeling

  SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURES:
  - Design criteria and design methodologies
  - Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction
  - Standards / measures to support interoperability
  - Portability and reuse
  - Specialized tools, toolkits, and toolchains

  EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES:
  - Evaluation methodologies and user studies
  - Metrics and measures
  - Ethical considerations and societal impact
  - Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual 
agents)
  - Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior

  APPLICATIONS:
  - Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, 
games, art, etc.
  - Virtual agents in games and simulations
  - Social agents as tools in psychology, neuroscience, social 
simulation, etc
  - Migration between platforms


  SPECIAL SESSION
  ===================
In addition to the traditional IVA topics, this year’s conference plans 
a special session on “IVAs in future mixed realities”, e.g., in social 
VR and potential incarnations of a Metaverse. Immersive and potentially
  distributed artificial virtual worlds provide new forms of full-size 
embodied human-human interaction via avatars of arbitrary looks, 
enabling interesting intra- and interpersonal effects. They also enable 
hybrid
  avatar-agent interactions between humans and A.I.s, unlocking the full 
potential of non-verbal behavior in digital face-to-face encounters, 
significantly enhancing the design space for IVAs to assist, guide, help
  but also to persuade and affect interacting users. We welcome all 
kinds of novel research on technological, psychological, and 
sociological determinants of such immersive digital 
avatar-agent encounters for this special session.


  INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
  =========================
Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” 
format, more specifically the “SigConf” format. Please consult 
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
for the Latex template, word interim template, or connection to the 
overleaf platform. All papers need to be submitted in PDF-format.

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Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you 
can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has 
been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a 
commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The 
collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement 
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The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made 
available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks 
prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date 
affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

This event is sponsored by SIGAI.

Please visit the conference website for detailed information on how to 
submit your paper.


CONFERENCE WEBSITE
===================

https://iva.acm.org/2023/
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