[iva] Call for IVA steering committee

[Catherine Pelachaud]

Hello,

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 gestures, 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 venue for the ACM IVA conferences changes annually and is selected 
through a bidding process. The steering committee oversees this 
selection, aiming to support and strengthen the IVA community. 
Additionally, the committee defines the primary goals and focus areas of 
the conferences and ensures their consistency year after year.

We are calling for applications to join the IVA steering committee. 
Candidates should be active members of the IVA community. They should 
have regularly published and attended the IVA conferences. They should 
have been involved in organizing the IVA conferences.

If you are interested in participating in the IVA steering committee, 
please contact:

Catherine PELACHAUD <catherine.pelachaud at sorbonne-universite.fr>

Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson <hannes at ru.is>

Our best wishes for the holidays seasons!

IVA steering committee