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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Dear colleagues, </span></p>
<div class="">We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the annual ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, hosted this year at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. </div>
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<div class="">Please see below for further details. The submission portal is now open. </div>
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<div class="">Questions? Just ask!</div>
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<div class="">Best wishes,</div>
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<div class="">Dr. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D.<br class="">
Reader (Associate Professor)<br class="">
Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology<br class="">
School of Psychology <br class="">
University of Glasgow<br class="">
Scotland, G12 8QB<br class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">September 9-12th 2020 University of Glasgow, Scotland<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/" class="">https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="mailto:iva20@easychair.org" class="">iva20@easychair.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">SUBMISSION DATES<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Open now until Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Submission page: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva20" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva20</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific
focus on the ability to socially interact.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">*** IVA 2020 will be the 20th Annual Conference. It will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 9- 12th September 2020. ***<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception,
cognition, emotion and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social situations. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">IVA 2020 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social
perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">IVA 2020 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, including references) and Extended Abstracts (3 pages, including references).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings. Accepted full papers will be presented as a talk. Accepted extended
abstracts will be presented as a talk or a poster, depending on the outcome of the review process.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Agent design and modeling of:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Cognition<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Conversational behavior<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Social perception<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Machine learning approaches to agent modeling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Multimodal interaction:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Face-to-face communication skills<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Engagement<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Multi-party interaction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Data driven multimodal modeling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Social agent architectures:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Design criteria and design methodologies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Standards / measures to support interoperability<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Portability and reuse<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Evaluation methods and studies:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Evaluation methodologies and user studies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Ethical considerations and societal impact<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Applications:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Virtual agents in games and simulations<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Social agents as tools in psychology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Migration between platforms<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC: <br class="">
Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Across computer science, robotics, psychology and the commercial world, there has been a rapid growth in the research, development and application of artificial social agents. Computer scientists and roboticists
are researching graphics-based and physical social agents. Psychologists and neuroscientists are using these artifacts in laboratory experiments in order to study our interaction with them as well as to use them as confederates in the study of human behavior.
Companies are actively developing similar technologies. However, these communities too rarely interact even though there are close synergies between psychology, the study of human behavior, and artificial social agents, the engineering of human behavior. The
design of an artificial social agent involves the formalization of theories and data about human behavior, integration of resulting models into an agent and evaluation of its behavior, leveraging techniques derived from psychology. Each of these steps can
in return be of fundamental value to psychological research. For example, formalization and integration forces one to concretely specify theoretical constructs and thereby expose hidden assumptions and gaps in theories. IVA 2020’s Special Topic provides an
invitation to researchers and developers across disciplines to share their work on the challenges and uses of social agent research, in the hope to further trans-disciplinary collaboration.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- The LaTeX template for the “ACM Standard”/”SigConf” format can be found inside the official 2017 ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version available at: <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-latex-authors" class="">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-latex-authors</a><br class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- The “ACM Standard” Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the “Interim
Word Template” instead as per the instructions in: <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-word-authors" class="">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-word-authors</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Full papers: 8 pages (including references)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Extended abstracts: 3 pages (including references)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">All papers must be submitted in PDF-format.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Submission Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Camera-ready submission: August 2, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Stacy Marsella, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Program Chairs:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Pedro Sequeira, SRI International<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Emily Cross, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Contact: <a href="mailto:iva20@easychair.org" class="">iva20@easychair.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Contact: </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><a href="mailto:workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com" class="">workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Amol Deshmukh, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Jonathan Gratch, ICT/USC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Publicity Chair<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Volunteer Coordinator: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow</span></p>
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