[iva] Deadline EXTENSION - Call for papers, IVA workshop REACT: viRtual agEnts Against disCriminaTion

[Magalie Ochs]

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 29 juin 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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