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7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'07)
Plus GALA - Gathering of Life-like Agents
17th - 19th September 2007
Paris, France
http://iva07.ntua.gr
1st Call for Papers
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SCOPE
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are autonomous, graphically embodied
agents in an interactive, 2D or 3D virtual environment. They are able to
interact intelligently with the environment, other IVAs, and especially
with human users.
The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and
practitioners in computer graphics, animation, computer games, virtual
environments, artificial intelligence, natural language processing,
cognitive modeling, human-computer interaction and artificial life.
Since the first IVA back in 1999 firm lines of research have been
established and there is much that the graphics and AI communities can
learn from each other.
The domain of Intelligent Virtual Agents has become much more diverse
and now encompasses a wide range of disciplines; cognitive and social
psychology, communication models (conversational skills, interaction
loops, conversational analysis), non-verbal communication, sociology
(modeling human / IVA societies), HCI (intelligent user interfaces,
gesture/body tracking interfaces), design and arts (e.g., interactive
installations with IVAs), and numerous application domains.
While initial research often focused on the use of IVAs in virtual
environments, they are now increasingly used in web-based interfaces,
personal computing devices and interactive television. The rapid
advances in the field have enabled it to be applied in both in research
and industrial contexts. IVAs can provide appealing characters for games
and entertainment. They can also be used in novel user interfaces or
even as tools of psychological research.
IVA'07 will be a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry with an interest in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications. We aim for
a lively program of timely, high-quality presentations and
demonstrations to discuss the state of the art and future of Intelligent
Virtual Agents. Papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag LNAI
(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.
This year, IVA'07 and ACII'07 (http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/acii2007/) are
happening close to each other. While we do encourage submitting to both
conferences we do highlight there are differences in topics of interest
in each conference. We highly advise authors to read them carefully.
Papers submitted to both conferences should be clearly different in
their scope and topic.
IVA'07 will also host GALA - The Gathering of Life-like Agents - see
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/gala/
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TOPICS
Design and modeling of IVAs
- design criteria and methodologies
- nature inspired IVAs/A-life for IVAs
- dimensions of intelligence in IVAs
- models of personality, culture for IVAs
- models of awareness of social context
- models of social agents/robots
- models of conversational skills and multi-modal interaction
- non-verbal expressiveness in IVAs
- IVAs with physical embodiment: lessons from and for robotics
- ethical considerations
- Application fields for IVA and experience reports
- Evaluation methodologies and user studies of IVAs
Software engineering issues
- standards / measures to support interoperability, portability, and reuse
- tools and toolkits for building IVAs
- advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies for IVAs
- real-time integrated system
Conceptual architectures
- learning IVAs
- improvisational IVAs
- multi-user /multi-IVA interaction
- crowd simulations with IVAs
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IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: 15th April 07
- Authors Notification: 15th May 07
- Camera-Ready: 12th June 07
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SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
- Long submissions: 12 pages
- Short submissions: 7 pages
- Poster submissions: 1 page
- Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the web site
- Please format your paper according to Springer-Verlag's Guidelines:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html.
- We would appreciate it if you could compress the files using zip, rar
or ace compression.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8
- Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS
- Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg
- Kostas Karpouzis, ICCS, National Technical University of Athens
- Danielle Pelé, France Telecom
GENERAL COMMITTEE
- Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University
- Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
- Patrick Olivier, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld
LOCAL COMMITTEE
- Gérard Chollet, ENST
CONTACT PERSON
Catherine Pelachaud: pelachaud@iut.univ-paris8.fr
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