[iva] call for bid IVA'24

[Catherine Pelachaud]

CALL FOR BIDS for Organizing ACM IVA 2024

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 interact socially. 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 behavior simulation. IVAs are highly relevant for 
and widely applied in many societally important domains including 
health, education, training, entertainment, at the work place or for 
assisted living.

The 23^rd International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents will be 
held in presence, September 19^th – 22^nd 2023, organized at Würzburg 
University:

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

** We are calling for bids to organize the next conference in 2024, 
preferably in the 3^rd and 4^th week of September.

Interested groups should prepare an application consisting of:

-Conference location: description of the conference venue and nearby 
accommodations; description of public transportation and access from 
nearby airports

-Conference organization: description of the organizing committees; 
conference dates that fit best to avoid conflict with other conferences

-Conference budget: estimation of the budget with different numbers of 
participants, and including margins and fees by ACM: 
https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/conference-planning/table-of-contents 
<https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/conference-planning/table-of-contents>

-A special topic that may be featured in IVA 2024

The deadline to submit applications is: June 30^th 2023

Applications should be sent to:

·Catherine Pelachaud catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr 
<mailto:catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr>

·Stefan Kopp skopp at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de 
<mailto:skopp at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>

·Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson hannes at ru.is

Notification of acceptance will be shortly before IVA2023 so that the 
next conference venue can be announced at this year’s conference.
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