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

[Alafate Abulimiti]

Dear IVA community,

We are excited to invite you to our workshop *DEBP-PVA: Designing and 
Evaluating Behavioural Paradigms With Proactive Virtual Agents*. This is 
a workshop of IVA 2025 taking place in Berlin, Germany on September 
16th. *This year’s IVA will include workshop papers as part of the 
proceedings!* Also, we invited *Eva Wiese* as one of the speakers!

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> 
(https://sites.google.com/view/debp-pva2025/) for full information about 
the workshop.

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

  *

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

  *

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

  *

    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):*

Submission deadline:*July 14th, 2025*

Notification of acceptance:*July 21st, 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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