Appel: IVA2010 CFP - deadline 5/7

Wed Apr 28 16:00:26 UTC 2010

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:08:33 -0400
From: Timothy Bickmore <bickmore at ccs.neu.edu>
Message-ID: <4BD84161.9000500 at ccs.neu.edu>
X-url: http://iva2010.org
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Final Announcement and Call for Papers
    ** Deadline extended to 5/7 **
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10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA 2010

20-22 September 2010

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

http://iva2010.org

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that
exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each
other using natural human modalities such as behavior, gesture and
speech.  IVAs are capable of real-time perception, cognition and
action that allow them to participate in a dynamic social environment.

IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum
for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating
intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and
social behavior.  The conference encourages a spectrum of
presentations from theoretical issues to working applications.
Research on human-human and human-robot interaction adapted to
intelligent embodied agents is also welcome.

Special topic for 2010: Virtual Human Communities

IVA-2010 particularly encourages submissions on this year’s special
topics of virtual human communities.  IVA achievements to date lead
naturally to studies involving the formation, simulation and
understanding of ever widening social, cultural and cognitive
interactions among humans and virtual humans.  Computer graphics
techniques now permit the visual simulation of large collections of
individual agents, offering real-time visualization platforms for
expanding social units to families, co-worker teams, building
inhabitants and even an entire virtual populace.  Mobile interactive
devices and emergent human interests in real-time social networking
provide some additional economic incentives and a growing industry
presence.  This special topic also builds on the special theme of IVA
09, games, in that participants in virtual environments will need to
interact not just with the space or with individual IVAs, but perhaps
with a community of IVAs in order to achieve desired situations or
goal states.  IVA 2010 offers the opportunity for further
interdisciplinary cross-fertilization between the IVA and virtual
populace simulation fields.

Keynote Speakers (see iva2010.org for details)

* Paul Debevec - Associate Director, Graphics Research, ICT, USC;
  Research Associate Professor, ICT, USC

* Ruben Gur, Ph. D.- Professor of Psychology, University of
  Pennsylvania; Director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory; "The
  Neurobiology of Emotion Processing by Humans and Computers"

* Lee Sheldon - Anti-Linear Logic; Assistant Professor, Department of
  Telecommunications, Indiana University; "Virtual Agents in the
  Modular World"

Submission details

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (10-14 pages),
short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For details on how to
submit your paper, consult the IVA 2010 website: http://iva2010.org

GALA 2010

The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (GALA) will once again take
place at IVA; please visit the website http://iva2010.org/gala

Chairs

Norman Badler: University of Pennsylvania, USA
Catherine Pelachaud: CNRS, Télécom ParisTech, France
Jan Allbeck: George Mason University, USA
Timothy Bickmore: Northeastern University, USA

Important Dates

7 May 2010: Paper submission deadline
1 June 2010: Notification of acceptance
15 June 2010: Camera-ready copies
1 June 2010: GALA submission
20-22 September 2010: Conference!

Topics

Design and modeling of IVAs
* design criteria and design methodologies
* evaluation methodologies and user studies
* ethical considerations and social impact
* applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
* dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
* models of personality and cultural awareness
* models of social competence
* models of multimodal perception and action
* models of emotional communicative behavior
Implementation of IVAs
* software engineering issues
* real-time integrated systems
* portability and reuse
* standards / measures to support interoperability
* specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
* specialized modeling and animation technologies
Applications of IVAs
* future role and/or current experience in various fields, e.g.,
  computer games, art and entertainment, education and training,
  simulation and visualization
* delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi-user,
  virtual/augmented/mixed reality
Conceptual frameworks for IVAs
* learned, evolved or emergent behavior
* improvisational or dramatic interaction
* stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents)
Virtual human communities
* virtual populace simulation
* authoring tools
* cultural models
* spatiotemporal data

Best Paper Chair
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California, USA

Submissions Chair
Alla Safonova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Poster and Demo Chairs
Chris Czyzewicz, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Daniel Schulman, Northeastern University, USA

Local Organization Chair
Catherine Stocker, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Senior Program Committee

Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK
Stephane Donikian, IRISA, France
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Nuria Pelechano, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Mark Riedl, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Thomas Rist, University of Augsburg, Germany
Zsofia Ruttkay, University of Twente , The Netherlands
Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland

www.iva2010.org

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