Dear colleagues See below for the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2020 program October 20-22th including this year’s special topic: Exploring connections between computer science, robotics, and psychology. All welcome! See registrations links below. Sharing widely much appreciated. Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [https://mcusercontent.com/b50a71cb719c1a4fecb313822/images/a7f52241-575b-44…] Call for Participation ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Online Conference, October 20th-22nd 2020 https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/ --------------------------------------------- 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents --------------------------------------------- SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC: Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology. Register now for the Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference! https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/registration/ *** 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 while realizing low attendance costs. Please see https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/attendees/ for more details *** 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. 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 trans-disciplinary collaboration. The invited talks this year will include a social roboticist, a neuroscientist and an artist panel: - Professor Jodi Forlizzi: “HRI and HAI: Merging Perspectives from Two Fields” - Professor Lars Muckli: “Emotions and other contextual signals in early visual cortex and the computational role for AI” - Behnaz Farahi, Ph.D.: “Emotive Matter: Affective Computing from Fashion to Architecture” - Güvenç Özel: “Persuasion Machines: Networked Architectures in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism” See https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/program/invited-speakers/ <https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/program/invited-speakers/%20> for more details. 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@easychair.org<mailto:iva20@easychair.org> Workshop/Demonstration Organization Chairs: * Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow * Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow * Contact: workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com<mailto:workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com> Web Site * Amol Deshmukh, University of Glasgow Doctoral Consortium Volunteer Coordinator: * Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow This email was sent to rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk> why did I get this?<x-msg://12/*|ABOUT_LIST|*> unsubscribe from this list<x-msg://12/*|UNSUB|*> update subscription preferences<x-msg://12/*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> *|LIST:ADDRESSLINE|* Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087