37.378, Confs: 26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Mexico)

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Date: 27-Jan-2026
From: Lucie Galland [lucie.galland at isir.upmc.fr]
Subject: 26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents


26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Short Title: IVA/ACII26
Theme: Social Cognition for Human-AI Cooperation

Date: 07-Sep-2026 - 11-Sep-2026
Location: Puebla, Mexico
Meeting URL: https://iva.acm.org/2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 04-Apr-2026

About the Conference:
The ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the
premier international event to present and discuss the newest research
on socially interactive agents and human-agent interaction.
Specifically, IVAs are AI-based virtual or robotic agents that exhibit
human-like capabilities of social interaction, including multimodal
communication using facial expressions, speech, or gestures, as well
as real-time perception, cognition, emotion, and action that allow
them to simulate or participate in dynamic social or task-oriented
interaction.
ACM IVA 2026 will showcase cutting-edge research on the design,
implementation, 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 or behavioral research
and showcases of working applications.
This year’s theme “Social Cognition for Human-AI Cooperation” explores
in particular how the fundamental mechanisms and processes of social
cognition can be studied using IVAs, as well as how they can be
computationally modelled for IVAs to enable a new level of cooperative
interaction between humans and AI-based agents. Unraveling possible
and emerging forms of human-AI cooperation, along with their effects
and implications, will provide impulses for the advancement and
critical reflection on socially interactive agents. Such contributions
are also widely welcomed and appreciated.
All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by expert
reviewers. All accepted full-paper submissions will be presented
orally and published in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital
Library.
ACM IVA 2026, the 26th Annual Conference, will be held in Puebla,
Mexico, September 7-11, 2026.
IVA 2026 will be co-located with 14th International Conference on
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2026), with
selected joint keynotes and social events and the ability to attend
ACII paper sessions.
Scope and List of Topics:
IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not
limited to:
1. 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 in psychology
 - Large Language Models for Conversational Agents
 - Generative AI and Virtual Agents
2. 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
3. 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 toolchains
4. 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
5. Applications
 - Applications in education, training, health, counseling, games,
art, etc.
 - Virtual agents in games and simulations
 - Social agents as tools in psychology
 - Migration of agents between platforms
 - Virtual Agents in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Important Dates:
Full Paper Abstract Submissions:  28th March 2026
Full Paper Submissions: 04th April 2026
Review Notification: 23rd May 2026
Final Notification of Acceptance: 15th June 2026
Camera-ready Version: 07th July 2026
Conference: Sept 7-11, 2026
All deadlines are anywhere on earth (23:59 UTC−12).
Instructions for Authors:
All submissions should be in PDF-format and submitted via Easychair :
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iva2026
Full papers are 4 to 8 pages long (not including references), should
be submitted anonymously, 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 ACM Master article template package. Please
use the most recent version (2.12) 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
“By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby
acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM
Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on
Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations
of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by
ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to
other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.”
“Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you
can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has
been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a
commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We
are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper
attribution and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name
normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”
Please refer to the poster and demo CFPs for instructions for these
formats.
Review Process:
Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by at least two
expert reviewers and overseen by a senior program committee member.
The possible outcomes of this review process are:
 - Desk rejection due to violations of the ACM IVA submission policies
 - Rejection
 - Conditional Acceptance
 - Acceptance
Authors of conditionally accepted papers are expected to address any
recommendations and conditions of acceptance prior to the final
submission of camera-ready materials. This will be verified by the
primary reviewer.
Rejected full paper will be considered for invitation to submit a
shortened version as poster abstract (deadline after full paper
notification).
Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by
the authors to edit grammar or style of their own text. More
information about the ACM publication policies can be found here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies
All submissions must be original work not previously presented at any
workshop, symposium, or conference and not published in any archived
conference proceeding, magazine, or journal.
Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable and will lead to the removal of
the submission from the review process.  Please also see the ACM
guidelines under
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism-overview
Notes: IVA 2026 will as usual have workshops/tutorials and a doctoral
consortium. Details on submissions can be found at the website:
https://iva.acm.org/2026/workshops/
Contacts:
For more information, please contact the Program Chairs:
Chloé Clavel, INRIA Paris, France
Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
via the following email address: programmchairs at iva.acm.org
© 2026 26th ACM IVA Conference



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