We hope that this message finds you healthy and that you and your
families are safe and well during these difficult times!
Since many countries are still under heavy pressure from COVID-19
together with the fact the Southern Hemisphere is just entering winter,
we have decided to reschedule the conference to the 28th to the 30th of
October. The conference will be hybrid, hosting both onsite and online
participants. Online participants will have a reduced fee.
We have also extended the submission deadline, and already submitted
papers can be modified.
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED:
10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
(This is the follow-up of the previous ICDL-EpiRob conference series)
28th-30th October 2020, Valparaiso, Chile
https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/
An IEEE Computational Society-sponsored conference
==== Important Dates ====
Paper Submission Deadline: 14th June 2020
Paper Author Notification: 13th July 2020
Final Paper Version Due: 16th August 2020
Conference: 28th-30th October 2020
==== Overview ====
The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),
previously referred to as ICDL-EpiRob, is the premier gathering of
professionals dedicated to the advancement of cognitive and
developmental learning. As such, ICDL is a unique conference gathering
researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and
developmental studies.
ICDL is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to
showcase and share the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions.
ICDL community focusses on the understanding of how biological agents
take advantage of interaction with social and physical environments to
develop their cognitive capabilities. Moreover, how this knowledge can
be used to improve future computing and robotic systems.
We invite submissions for the conference to explore, extend, and
consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research
field.
==== Scope and Topics ====
The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to:
- principles and theories of development and learning;
- development of skills in biological systems and robots;
- nature vs nurture, developmental stages;
- models on the contributions of interaction to learning;
- verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;
- models on active learning;
- architectures for lifelong learning;
- emergence of body and affordance perception;
- analysis and modelling of human motion and state;
- models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
- models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
- emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;
- epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
- robot prototyping of human and animal skills;
- ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;
- social learning in humans, animals, and robots.
==== Submissions ====
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of six
pages with the possibility of two-extra pages at a fee. Submissions are
in the IEEE conference template. Submission will be selected for either
oral or poster presentation based on the reviews. Accepted and presented
regular six-page paper submissions will be included in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE Xplore after the conference.
For more information about submissions, travel grants, social events,
etc. visit the conference webpage under https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/
ICDL-EpiRob: Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics » ICDL 2020<https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/>
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==== Organizing committee ====
General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
Program and Finance Chairs: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, and María-José Escobar
Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Frédéric Alexandre, and Linda Smith
Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie
Nagai, and Emre Ugur
Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu
Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis
Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz
Local chairs: Mauricio Araya
Webpage Chairs: Cristóbal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo
Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro
Best regards from the organizing committee,
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Dr. Pablo Barros
Postdoctoral Researcher - CONTACT Unit
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Center for Human Technologies
Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy
email: pablo.alvesdebarros(a)iit.it
website: https://www.pablobarros.net<http://www.pablobarros.net><https://www.p>
twitter: @PBarros_br
Tl;dr: Have you recently (since roughly 2015) published a new test designed to assess the face identity processing abilities of those with developmental prosopagnosia? Particularly with the goal of establishing better sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis?
We are looking for:
- Tests of face memory (unfamiliar and familiar faces) eg. CFMT and famous faces
- Tests of face discrimination eg CFPT
- Tests of other face identity processing ability (e.g. holistic processing) eg part-whole test
- Self-report measures of face recognition ability eg PI20
- Tests of object recognition that are intended to be used as an object control (within class object recognition test modelled after face memory tests) eg CBMT
In particular, we are looking to compile a fairly comprehensive list of the latest and greatest tests of face identity out there! We want to make sure we haven’t missed any. Do you have a recently published test that you think ought to be included? Or maybe something that isn’t published yet but it’s close? If so, I would be grateful if you could share the reference with me.
Thanks,
Sherryse
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ICMI 2020: Call for Long and Short Papers
http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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COVID-19 announcement
Dear all,
We hope you are healthy in these worrying times. We are closely monitoring
the COVID-19 situation in the Netherlands and around the world. There are
many uncertainties, but we will try to give you more information about the
format of the conference as soon as possible. What we do know for certain,
is that we will publish ICMI2020 proceedings this year.
Also note that we have extended the submission deadline for Long and Short
papers to 29 May 2020.
Take care,
the organizing team of ICMI2020.
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Call for Long and Short Papers
The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020)
will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier
international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal
human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system
development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical
foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing
techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions
to the ICMI community. ICMI 2020 will feature a single-track main
conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short
papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits
and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops
and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2020 will be published by ACM
as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital
Library.
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social
sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to
increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting
technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria
used during ICMI 2020 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e.,
scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted
papers at ICMI 2020 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In
other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution
but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that
is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the
scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that
are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to
children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the
authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the
novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include
novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or
modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction
algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation.
Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach.
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors
https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors for detailed submission
instructions.
This year’s conference theme: In this information age, technological
innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and
impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science
as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and
computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal
processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art,
culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and
society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing?
As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal
processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and
Society.
Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Affective computing and interaction
- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
- Gesture, touch and haptics
- Healthcare, assistive technologies
- Human communication dynamics
- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
- Interaction with smart environment
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behavior generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Speech behaviors in social interaction
- System components and multimodal platforms
- Visual behaviours in social interaction
- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Important Dates
Paper Submission: *May 29, 2020 (EXTENDED)*
Reviews to authors: July 15, 2020
Rebuttal due: July 20, 2020
Paper notification: TBA
Camera ready paper: TBA
Presenting at main conference: October 25-29, 2020
ICLD-EpiRob 2020 Journal Track - Call for Journal Articles for Oral or
Poster Presentation
The program committee of the 10th IEEE International Conference on
Development and Learning (ICDL) invites published journal articles to be
presented in the Journal Track of ICDL.
7th-10th September 2020, Valparaiso, Chile
https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/
==== Important Dates ====
Submission deadline: 25th May 2020
Author notification: 8th of June 2020
Conference: 7th-10th September 2020
==== Overview ====
The Journal Track is designed to provide a forum to discuss important
results related to cognitive and developmental systems recently published
as journal articles, but have not been previously presented as conference
papers. Thus, the journal track offers an opportunity to present
outstanding results that might otherwise not be submitted to a conference
due to their length and complexity.
All accepted journal presentations will be selected for either oral or
poster presentation during the conference based on the reviews - at least
one author is expected to register to ICDL 2020 and to present the paper in
person.
==== Submissions ====
Candidate papers must be original research articles published in a journal
relevant to the research area during 2019 or 2020. Papers that are in press
may be submitted as long as the final camera-ready version is available
online. Extensions of papers that have been previously presented as
conference papers may NOT be submitted to this track.
All submissions must be made by email to Francisco Cruz, including (in a
single PDF):
- Title of the original journal paper.
- Abstract of the paper.
- A complete reference to the original paper in APA format.
- URL where the paper can be downloaded from the publisher if available, or
proof of the final acceptance.
- A copy of the paper with its final camera-ready contents.
Submissions will go through an expedited selection process led by the
conference chairs. Selection criteria include the significance of the
results and relevance to the ICDL community.
==== Scope and Topics ====
The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to:
- principles and theories of development and learning;
- development of skills in biological systems and robots;
- nature vs nurture, developmental stages;
- models on the contributions of interaction to learning;
- verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;
- models on active learning;
- architectures for lifelong learning;
- emergence of body and affordance perception;
- analysis and modeling of human motion and state;
- models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
- models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
- emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;
- epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
- robot prototyping of human and animal skills;
- ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;
- social learning in humans, animals, and robots.
==== Organizing committee ====
General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
Program and Finance Chairs: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, and María-José Escobar
Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Frédéric Alexandre, and Linda Smith
Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie
Nagai, and Emre Ugur
Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu
Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis
Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz
Local chairs: Mauricio Araya
Webpage Chairs: Cristóbal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo
Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro
Best regards from the organizing committee,
Francisco Cruz
Research Fellow in Reinforcement Learning
School of Information Technology
Deakin University
Locked Bag 20000, Geelong, VIC 3220
francisco.cruz(a)deakin.edu.au
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has directly or indirectly affected
countries how typically are well represented at the conference, we are
extending the deadline submission.
The health and safety of our conference participants is our top
priority. Therefore, we are closely monitoring any travel advisories and
governmental recommendations. Please check our website where we will
post any relevant information as quickly as possible.
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED:
10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
An IEEE Computational Society-sponsored conference
(This is the follow-up of the previous ICDL-EpiRob conference series)
7th-10th September 2020, Valparaiso, Chile
https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/
==== Important Dates ====
Submission deadline: 15th March 2020 -> New deadline: 12th April 2020
Author notification: 15th May 2020 -> moved to 31st of May 2020
Camera ready due: 1st July 2020
Conference: 7th-10th September 2020
==== Overview ====
The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),
previously referred to as ICDL-EpiRob, is the premier gathering of
professionals dedicated to the advancement of cognitive and
developmental learning. As such, ICDL is a unique conference gathering
researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and
developmental studies.
ICDL is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to
showcase and share the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions.
ICDL community focusses on the understanding of how biological agents
take advantage of interaction with social and physical environments to
develop their cognitive capabilities. Moreover, how this knowledge can
be used to improve future computing and robotic systems.
We invite submissions for the conference to explore, extend, and
consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research
field.
==== Scope and Topics ====
The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to:
- principles and theories of development and learning;
- development of skills in biological systems and robots;
- nature vs nurture, developmental stages;
- models on the contributions of interaction to learning;
- verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;
- models on active learning;
- architectures for lifelong learning;
- emergence of body and affordance perception;
- analysis and modelling of human motion and state;
- models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
- models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
- emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;
- epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
- robot prototyping of human and animal skills;
- ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;
- social learning in humans, animals, and robots.
==== Submissions ====
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of six
pages with the possibility of two-extra pages at a fee. Submissions are
in the IEEE conference template. Submission will be selected for either
oral or poster presentation based on the reviews. Accepted and presented
regular six-page paper submissions will be included in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE Xplore after the conference.
For more information about submissions, travel grants, social events,
etc. visit the conference webpage under https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/
==== Organizing committee ====
General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
Program and Finance Chairs: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, and María-José Escobar
Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Frédéric Alexandre, and Linda Smith
Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie
Nagai, and Emre Ugur
Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu
Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis
Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz
Local chairs: Mauricio Araya
Webpage Chairs: Cristóbal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo
Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro
Kind regards on behalf of the Organizing Committee,
--
Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering, and
School of Culture and Society
Aarhus University, Denmark
E-mail: nng(a)eng.au.dk
https://au.dk/en/nng@eng.au.dkhttps://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/
Aarhus University
Finlandsgade 22, building 5125
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark
Tel.: +45 8715 0000
eng(a)au.dk
www.eng.au.dk/en/
--
Best regards,
Nicolás
--
Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
https://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/
Call for Long and Short Papers
***************************************
ICMI 2020: 3rd Call for Long and Short Papers
http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
***************************************
Call for Long and Short Papers
The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020)
will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier
international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal
human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system
development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical
foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing
techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions
to the ICMI community. ICMI 2020 will feature a single-track main
conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short
papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits
and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops
and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2020 will be published by ACM
as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital
Library.
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social
sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to
increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting
technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria
used during ICMI 2020 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e.,
scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted
papers at ICMI 2020 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In
other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution
but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that
is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the
scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that
are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to
children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the
authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the
novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include
novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or
modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction
algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation.
Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach.
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors
https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors for detailed submission
instructions.
This year’s conference theme: In this information age, technological
innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and
impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science
as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and
computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal
processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art,
culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and
society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing?
As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal
processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and
Society.
Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Affective computing and interaction
- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
- Gesture, touch and haptics
- Healthcare, assistive technologies
- Human communication dynamics
- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
- Interaction with smart environment
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behavior generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Speech behaviors in social interaction
- System components and multimodal platforms
- Visual behaviours in social interaction
- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Important Dates
Paper Submission: *May 4, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7)*
Reviews to authors: July 3, 2020
Rebuttal due: July 10, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7)
Paper notification: July 20, 2020
Camera ready paper: August 17, 2020
Presenting at main conference: October 25-29, 2020
Call for Challenge participation
Eight Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Challenge
https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2020
@ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2020, Utretch,
Netherlands
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The Emotion Recognition in the Wild 2020 Challenge consists of multimodal
classification challenges, which mimics real-world conditions.
Traditionally, affect recognition has been performed on laboratory
controlled data. While undoubtedly worthwhile at the time, such lab
controlled data poorly represents the environment and conditions faced in
real-world situations. With the increase in the number of video clips
online, it is worthwhile to explore the performance of affect recognition
methods that work ‘in the wild’.
Challenge sub-challenges:
1. Audio-video based Group Emotion Recognition
2. Driver Gaze Prediction
3. Engagement prediction in the Wild
4. Physiological Signal based Emotion Recognition
Timeline:
Train and validate data available - 7th March 2020
Test data available - 1st June 2020
Paper submission deadline - July 2020
Paper notification - July 2020
Organisers:
Abhinav Dhall, Monash University and IIT Ropar
Roland Goecke, University of Canberra
Tom Gedeon, Australian National University
Data Chairs:
Garima Sharma, Monash University
Yang Liu, Australian National University
Contact: emotiw2014(a)gmail.com
Hello,
My lab is searching for a postdoctoral fellow who will work on an exciting
four-year project investigating the cognitive and neural basis of
developmental prosopagnosia. Please see ad below.
We're also looking for a lab manager/research assistant to work on the
project. The lab manager position will require strong programming skills
and an interest in perception, neuroscience, and neuropsychology. If you're
interested in the lab manager position, please email me.
Thanks,
Brad
The Social Perception Lab in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth
College is searching for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow. We
encourage applications from creative scientists who are eager to develop an
independent research program involving psychophysics, neuroimaging, and
neuropsychology. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to play
a key role in a four-year NIH-funded project investigating the cognitive
and neural basis of developmental prosopagnosia (DP). The project will
examine the extent and nature of cognitive and neural anomalies in DP using
behavioral tests and a rich set of neuroimaging data involving of
selectivity measures, functional connectivity, population receptive field
estimates, and diffusion tensor imaging.
The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the PI (Brad Duchaine) and
the Co-I (Caroline Robertson), and both are committed to the training and
career development of the fellow. The Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences has a concentration of laboratories working in two research areas
that are highly relevant to this project – high-level vision and space
perception/navigation. Moore Hall houses a research-dedicated scanner, and
because of the department’s emphasis on neuroimaging, excellent support and
resources are available for imaging work. For more information about the
Social Perception Lab, please visit: https://lab.faceblind.org/ and
https://www.faceblind.org/
Dartmouth College is an Ivy League university located in picturesque
Hanover, NH that has graduate programs in the sciences, engineering,
medicine, and business. The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
is a premier psychology and neuroscience department, with 26 faculty
members studying topics that range from place cell codes to social norms.
The ideal candidate for the position will have experience with both
perceptual research and neuroimaging as well as an interest in
neuropsychology, but we encourage enquires from candidates with other
backgrounds. To apply, please send a cover letter outlining your research
interests and qualifications, a CV, and contact information for two
references to bradley.c.duchaine(a)dartmouth.edu
Dear colleagues,
Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
The Governing Board of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) is pleased to invite nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-research-in-memory-and… <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-research-in-memory-and…>)
The Governing Board is seeking nominations from distinguished scholars in any area of applied memory and cognition to lead the Journal for a 5-year term beginning January 1, 2021. Nominees should preferably have a record of managing a scholarly journal process as an Associate Editor or Editor, possess effective communication skills, demonstrate the ability to work effectively with authors (particularly junior faculty and graduate students), and employ a team-based approach to collaborating with Associate Editors and the SARMAC Publications Committee. Preference will be given to candidates who support and encourage improved research and methodological practices.
Self-nominations will be accepted. SARMAC is an international society and the Governing Board encourages nominations from members of underrepresented groups.
Nominees should submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, the names of three referees who may be contacted by the Selection Committee, and a 2-page vision statement that addresses the preferred criteria noted above. Nomination packets should be submitted by email to the SARMAC Executive Director, Dr. Kim Wade (executivedirector(a)sarmac.org <mailto:executivedirector@sarmac.org>), no later than March 15, 2020.
For further information see the Call for Nominations on our website (http://www.sarmac.org/call-for-nominations-editor-in-chief <http://www.sarmac.org/call-for-nominations-editor-in-chief>) or contact the Chair of SARMAC's Publication Committee, Chris Meissner at cameissn(a)iastate.edu <mailto:cameissn@iastate.edu>
Best wishes,
Kim Wade - Executive Director of SARMAC
Dear colleagues,
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.
Please see below for further details. The submission portal is now open.
Questions? Just ask!
Best wishes,
Dr. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D.
Reader (Associate Professor)
Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology
School of Psychology
University of Glasgow
Scotland, G12 8QB
+44 (0) 141 330 5087
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Call for Submissions
ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
September 9-12th 2020 University of Glasgow, Scotland
https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/
iva20(a)easychair.org<mailto:iva20@easychair.org>
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SUBMISSION DATES
Open now until Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva20
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2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents
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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.
*** IVA 2020 will be the 20th Annual Conference. It will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 9- 12th September 2020. ***
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.
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.
IVA 2020 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, including references) and Extended Abstracts (3 pages, including references).
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.
SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Agent design and modeling of:
- Cognition
- Emotion (including personality and cultural differences)
- Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits)
- Conversational behavior
- Social perception
- Machine learning approaches to agent modeling
- Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior
- Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology
Multimodal interaction:
- Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination
- Face-to-face communication skills
- Engagement
- Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation
- Multi-party interaction
- Data driven multimodal modeling
Social agent architectures:
- Design criteria and design methodologies
- Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction
- Standards / measures to support interoperability
- Portability and reuse
- Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
Evaluation methods and studies:
- Evaluation methodologies and user studies
- Ethical considerations and societal impact
- Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)
- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior
Applications:
- Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.
- Virtual agents in games and simulations
- Social agents as tools in psychology
- Migration between platforms
SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC:
Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology.
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.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format.
- 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: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-latex-authors
- 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: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-word-authors
IVA 2020 accepts two types of submissions:
- Full papers: 8 pages (including references)
- Extended abstracts: 3 pages (including references)
All papers must be submitted in PDF-format.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)
- Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2020
- Camera-ready submission: August 2, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Conference Chairs:
- Stacy Marsella, University of Glasgow
- Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow
Program Chairs:
- Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University
- Pedro Sequeira, SRI International
- Emily Cross, University of Glasgow
Contact: iva20(a)easychair.org<mailto:iva20@easychair.org>
Workshop/Demonstration Organization Chairs:
- Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow
- Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow
Contact: workshopsdemos.iva2020(a)gmail.com<mailto:workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com>
Web Site
- Amol Deshmukh, University of Glasgow
Doctoral Consortium
- Jonathan Gratch, ICT/USC
Treasurer
- Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS
Publicity Chair
- Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow
Volunteer Coordinator:
- Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow