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<span class="">ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents</span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC:<br class="">
<strong class="">Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology.</strong><br class="">
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<strong class="">Register now for the Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference!</strong><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> ***</span> In light of Covid-19, this year the IVA 2020 conference will be delivered online via Virtual Chair and GatherTown. Our goal is to ensure the spontaneous interactions that invigorate physical conferences
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Please see <a href="https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/attendees/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);">https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/attendees/</a> for more details <span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">***</span><br class="">
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IVA is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) – interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities
such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVA 2020 will showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, including basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social perception,
dialog modeling, and social behavior planning, as well as work on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications.<br class="">
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IVA 2020’s Special Topic was an invitation to researchers and developers across the disciplines of computer science, robotics, psychology and the commercial world to share their work on the challenges and uses of social agent research, in the hope to further
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- Professor Jodi Forlizzi: “HRI and HAI: Merging Perspectives from Two Fields”<br class="">
- Professor Lars Muckli: “Emotions and other contextual signals in early visual cortex and the computational role for AI”<br class="">
- Behnaz Farahi, Ph.D.: “Emotive Matter: Affective Computing from Fashion to Architecture”<br class="">
- Güvenç Özel: “Persuasion Machines: Networked Architectures in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism”<br class="">
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<li class="">Stacy Marsella, University of Glasgow</li><li class="">Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow</li></ul>
<strong class="">Program Chairs:</strong>
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<li class="">Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University</li><li class="">Pedro Sequeira, SRI International</li><li class="">Emily Cross, University of Glasgow</li><li class="">Contact: <a href="mailto:iva20@easychair.org" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);">iva20@easychair.org</a></li></ul>
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