The Sixteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

September 20 - 23, 2016

Los Angeles, California

Call For Papers

Intelligent virtual agents are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments.The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also encouraged to share work with a relevance to intelligent virtual agents.

Topics of Interest

SPECIAL TOPIC

For our special theme of IVA 2016 we encourage submissions in the following non-exclusive submission areas:
• Entertaining Pedagogical Agents
• Entertaining Agents for Companionship
• Advancements in the Entertainment Value of Intelligent Agents
• Narrative Story-telling With Virtual Agents
• The Role of Entertainment in Virtual Applications


GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST

Design, Modeling and Evaluation
• Design criteria and design methodologies
• Evaluation methodologies and user studies
• Ethical considerations and societal impact
• Applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
• Improvisational or dramatic interaction
• Dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
• Models of multimodal perception and action
• Models of emotionally communicative behavior
• Models of conversational behavior
• Models of narrative and storytelling
• Theoretical foundations and formal models
• Learned, evolved or emergent behavior


Implementation and Applications of Intelligent Virtual Agents
• Software engineering issues
• Real-time integrated systems
• Portability and reuse standards / measures to support interoperability
• Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
• Specialized modeling and animation technologies
• Applications in games, education, art, etc.
• Delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented or mixed reality, robots
• Future or current experience in various fields, e.g. interactive narrative and story-telling, computer games, art and entertainment, education and training, simulation and visualization

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: August 2, 2016

Notification Due: August 9, 2016.

                       

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