IVA07
7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
17th - 19th September 2007 Paris, France
Submission deadline: April 15, 2007

http://iva07.ntua.gr/

An interesting conference for the AtGentive project. Many topics of interest

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. 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. The rapid advances in the field have enabled it to be applied in both in research and industrial contexts.

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