[iva] 1st Call for paper IVA workshop REACT viRtual agEnts Against disCriminaTion

[Chloe Clavel]

[ https://react.lis-lab.fr/ | https://react.lis-lab.fr/ ] 


Aim of the workshop. 

Intelligent Virtual Agents are increasingly used to embody roles potentially involving strong socio-emotional relationships, such as friends, companions, or therapists. As IVAs enter society, they should act ethically toward humans. 

The workshop objective is to gather researchers and developers of IVAs to discuss and identify the ethical issues in the modelization, implementation, and evaluation of IVAs to prevent discrimination. We consider all types of discrimination (gender, race, age, disabilities, etc.). At the workshop, we aim to investigate different aspects by exploring the risks and benefits of IVAs concerning discrimination. 

The workshop’s objective is to learn about each other’s work and collaboratively address challenges in particular concerning: 

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the present and prospective risks of IVAs in terms of discrimination; 
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the present and prospective benefits of using IVAs to prevent discrimination; 
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guidelines and principles on how IVAs should behave and be used, and the study of the potential socio-cultural biases behind such guidelines; 
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guidelines and principles on how to model the appearance and behavior of IVAs to prevent bias, stereotypes, and discriminating behavior 



Call for paper 

We encourage contributions of (ongoing) research from different fields, including human-computer interaction, psychology, and education, concerning studies on: 

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the stereotypes that virtual agents can convey through their multimodal behavior and the discriminating behaviors that may be adopted by virtual agents; 
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the stereotypes that users attribute to IVAs depending on their multimodal behavior; 
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the potential impacts of interactions with stereotyped or discriminating virtual agents on the user’s behaviors outside the virtual worlds; 
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the detection of biases and stereotypes in the models integrated into virtual agents (e.g. LLM-based dialog model) ; 
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the discriminations of users against virtual agents; 
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the perspectives on the use of IVAs to prevent stereotypes and discrimination (for instance with training systems) ; 
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The impact of socio-cultural characteristics (e.g. age, gender, culture) on the perception of stereotypes and discriminations. 





Important dates 

Workshop paper submission deadline: June 23, 2024 

Notifications: July 22, 2024 

Deadline for Camera ready version: September 02, 2024 

Workshop: September 19, 2024 


Submission format: max 6 pages (excluded references). 


The submitted contribution must be written in English and should be anonymized. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by two anonymous, independent reviewers. 


Please submit your contribution via e-mail to 

react at lis-lab.fr 

as a PDF, using the predefined using the predefined CEUR template (https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip) (an Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available: [ https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt | https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt ] ). The accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). 


Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to give an oral presentation or to present a poster of their work. 


In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop. 




Organizers : 

Magalie Ochs - Aix Marseille Université (contact person) 

Chloé Clavel - INRIA Paris 

Catherine Pelachaud - CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université 
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