SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING:

    Cognition (e.g. task, social, other)
    Emotion, personality and cultural differences
    Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, relationship)
    Conversational and dialog behavior
    Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits
    Machine learning approaches to agent modeling
    Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics
    Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology

MULTIMODAL INTERACTION:

    Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis)
    Multimodal/social behavior processing
    Face-to-face communication skills
    Interaction qualities  engagement, rapport, etc.)
    Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation
    Multi-party interaction
    Data-driven modeling

SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE 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

EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES:

    Evaluation methodologies and user studies
    Metrics and measures
    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, neuroscience, social simulation, etc
    Migration between platforms