Announcement and Call for Papers
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10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA 2010
20-22 September 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://iva2010.org
Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-
like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural
human modalities such as behavior, gesture and speech. IVAs are capable of
real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in a
dynamic social environment.
IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for
presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual
agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. The
conference encourages a spectrum of presentations from theoretical issues to
working applications. Research on human-human and human-robot interaction
adapted to intelligent embodied agents is also welcome.
Special topic for 2010: Virtual Human Communities
IVA-2010 particularly encourages submissions on this year’s special topics of
virtual human communities. IVA achievements to date lead naturally to studies
involving the formation, simulation and understanding of ever widening social,
cultural and cognitive interactions among humans and virtual humans.
Computer graphics techniques now permit the visual simulation of large
collections of individual agents, offering real-time visualization platforms for
expanding social units to families, co-worker teams, building inhabitants and
even an entire virtual populace. Mobile interactive devices and emergent
human interests in real-time social networking provide some additional economic
incentives and a growing industry presence. This special topic also builds on
the special theme of IVA 09, games, in that participants in virtual environments
will need to interact not just with the space or with individual IVAs, but
perhaps with a community of IVAs in order to achieve desired situations or goal
states. IVA 2010 offers the opportunity for further interdisciplinary cross-
fertilization between the IVA and virtual populace simulation fields.
Submission details
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (10-14 pages), short
papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) format. For details on how to submit your paper,
consult the IVA 2010 website:
http://iva2010.org
GALA 2010
The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (GALA) will once again take place at
IVA; please visit the website http://iva2010.org/gala
Chairs
Norman Badler: University of Pennsylvania, USA Catherine Pelachaud: CNRS,
Télécom ParisTech, France Jan Allbeck: George Mason University, USA Timothy
Bickmore: Northeastern University, USA
Important Dates
15 April 2010: Paper submission deadline
1 June 2010: Notification of acceptance
15 June 2010: Camera-ready copies
1 June 2010: GALA submission
20-22 September 2010: Conference!
Topics
Design and modeling of IVAs
* design criteria and design methodologies
* evaluation methodologies and user studies
* ethical considerations and social impact
* applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
* dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
* models of personality and cultural awareness
* models of social competence
* models of multimodal perception and action
* models of emotional communicative behavior Implementation of IVAs
* 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 of IVAs
* future role and/or current experience in various fields, e.g.,
computer games, art and entertainment, education and training,
simulation and visualization
* delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi-user,
virtual/augmented/mixed reality
Conceptual frameworks for IVAs
* learned, evolved or emergent behavior
* improvisational or dramatic interaction
* stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents) Virtual human communities
* virtual populace simulation
* authoring tools
* cultural models
* spatiotemporal data
Best Paper Chair
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Submissions Chair
Alla Safonova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Poster and Demo Chairs
Chris Czyzewicz, University of Pennsylvania, USA Daniel Schulman,
Northeastern University, USA
Local Organization Chair
Catherine Stocker, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Senior Program Committee
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt
University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Stephane Donikian,
IRISA, France Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Stacy Marsella, Univ.
of Southern California, USA Nuria Pelechano, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Mark Riedl, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Thomas Rist, University of
Augsburg, Germany Zsofia Ruttkay, University of Twente , The Netherlands
Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland
www.iva2010.org
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