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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/

SUBMISSION DATES
Papers: Sunday 5th April 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)
Extended Abstracts: Sunday 24th May 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)
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2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents
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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Convention 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 Convention, 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 papers will be presented at 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 (1.65) available at:https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
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: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx
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:

Papers

---> Submission Deadline: Sunday 5th April 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)

---> Notification of acceptance: 15th May, 2020

Extended Abstracts

---> Submission Deadline: Sunday 24th May 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)

---> Notification of acceptance: 21st June, 2020

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

Workshop/Demonstration Organization Chairs:

Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow
Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow
Contact: 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

IVA 2020

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