[iva] Call for papers! DEBP-PVA 25': Designing and Evaluating Behavioural Paradigms With Proactive Virtual Agents

[Paola Peña]

*Dear IVA community,*

We are excited to invite you to our workshop DEBP-PVA: Designing and
Evaluating Behavioural Paradigms With Proactive Virtual Agents. This a
workshop of IVA 2025 taking place in Berlin, Germany on September 16th.


DEBP-PVA examines the design and evaluation of behavioural paradigms that
effectively elicit and measure proactive behaviour in Intelligent Virtual
Agents (IVA) research. Current paradigms focus mainly on agent behaviour.
However, it remains unclear how these paradigms effectively help to elicit
and measure proactive agent interactions and produce ecologically valid
data, particularly for the paradigms that promote the use of different
modalities during interaction beyond text or speech.


We aim to bring together researchers to discuss methodologies for
developing tasks that not only structure agent behaviours but also provide
meaningful insights into the social and cognitive processes involved in
proactive interactions.


We invite researchers to contribute  2-4 pages long (including
references) papers
that include position statements, literature reviews, or in-progress
empirical studies. We are especially interested in short position papers
that make an argument for a viewpoint or perspective to advance the current
research landscape of the design and evaluation of behavioural paradigms of
IVAs in proactive scenarios.


All accepted papers should be prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more
specifically the “SigConf” format (see instructions for the IVA full
papers: https://iva.acm.org/2025/call-for-papers/).

Submission will be made in EasyChair using the link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=debppva25. Visit our website
<https://sites.google.com/view/debp-pva2025/home?authuser=0> for full
information about the workshop.


Suggested workshop topics may include, but are not limited to the following
areas:

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   Design and evaluation of experimental tasks (behavioural paradigms)
that effectively
   elicit and measure proactive behaviour in IVAs
   -

   Behavioural paradigms and methodologies are best suited to evaluate
   proactive interactions within realistic settings
   -

   How can gaze, motion, speech, and other multimodal cues be leveraged to
   both trigger and evaluate proactive agent behaviour?
   -

   Challenges when evaluating the fidelity of proactive behaviours within
   ecologically valid paradigms.
   -

   Key differences between proactive behaviour as intended in paradigms
   versus how it manifests in real-world scenarios.


*Keywords: *

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs), Proactive Behaviour, Behavioural
Paradigms, Evaluation Methods, Multimodal Interaction, Ecological Validity,
Task Design, Measuring Proactivity

*Important dates (AoE):*

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   Submission deadline: June 23th, 2025
   -

   Notification of acceptance: July 4th, 2025
   -

   Camera-ready versions for inclusion in proceedings: 28th of July
   -

   Workshop: September 16th, 2025


Organizing committee: Alafate Abulimiti, Paola R. Peña, Guy Laban, Tanja
Schneeberger, Jairo Pérez-Osorio, Tobias Thejll-Madsen, Nima Zargham, Smit
Desai, Justin Edwards, Matthias Kraus, Shashank Ahire, Fatemeh Alizadeh,
Yuan He, Alberto Jovane, Darragh L. Higgins, Jaisie Sin, Heloisa Candello,
Rachel McDonnell, Benjamin R. Cowan
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