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<p class=MsoNormal>2nd Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
(IVA'09)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://iva09.dfki.de/ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>September 14-16, 2009 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters
that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or each other
using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of
real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in a
dynamic social environment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IVA’09 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. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the
conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers
from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also welcome to
share work which has a bearing on intelligent virtual agents. IVA’09 is
held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI), the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG) and
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGART and SIGCHI).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SPECIAL TOPIC: “GAMES”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IVA’09 particularly encourages submissions on this year’s
special topic of games. The game industry is the source of the world’s
largest selection of interactive characters. To date, the creation of
these characters and their social behaviors has largely relied on carefully
hand crafted techniques rather than automation. With larger environments,
grander stories, more players and a greater demand for realism, hand crafted
approaches are unlikely to scale. Imbuing characters with more
intelligence and self-determination is an ongoing and so far unfulfilled goal
of the game industry. IVA’09 is an opportunity to reveal, tackle and
discuss the issues that relate to using intelligent virtual agents in games and
aims to strengthen links and the exchange of knowledge between academia and the
game industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Design and modeling of IVAs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- design criteria and design methodologies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- evaluation methodologies and user studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- ethical considerations and social impact<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- models of personality and cultural awareness<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- models of social competence <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- models of multimodal perception and action<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- models of emotional communicative behavior<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Implementation of IVAs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- software engineering issues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- real-time integrated systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- portability and reuse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- standards / measures to support interoperability<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- specialized modeling and animation technologies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Applications of IVAs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- future role and/or current experience in various fields
including<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> - computer games<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> - art and entertainment<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> - education and training<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> - simulation and visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi- user,
virtual/augmented/mixed reality<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Conceptual Frameworks for IVAs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- learned, evolved or emergent behavior<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- improvisational or dramatic interaction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- massive simulations of crowds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SUBMISSION DETAILS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14
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 conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>17 April,
2009
Submission of short and long IVA09 papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>22 May, 2009
Notifications of acceptance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>12 June,
2009
Camera-ready copies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>01 June,
2009
GALA video submission<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>14-16 September, 2009 Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ORGANIZATION
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Chairs Zsófia Ruttkay, University of Twente, The
Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson,
Reykjavík University, Iceland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best Paper
Chair
Thomas Rist, FH Augsburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submissions
Chair
Patrick Gebhard, DFKI, Germany <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Poster and Demo
Chair
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Local Organization
Chair Betsy
van Dijk, University of Twente, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Senior Program Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, TELECOM-ParisTech, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>MORE INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please visit the conference web site:
http://iva09.dfki.de/ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Contact conference chair: iva09@dfki.de<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>GALA 2009 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents will take place at
IVA’09. Demonstrate your agent in action, or develop a sensitive <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>viewer of a tennis match - and win the 350 Euro Jury Award!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>NEW this year is that each GALA submission should have a 2
page paper, which will be published in the IVA09 Springer proceedings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For details, see: http://irgen.ncl.ac.uk/gala/.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>GALA 2 page paper deadline 1 May 2009 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>GALA video
deadline 1 June 2009 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>CO-LOCATION WITH ACII’09<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IVA’09 will be co-located in Amsterdam with the
complementary Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction International
Conference (ACII’09) (http://www.acii2009.nl/), held 10-12 September 2009.
While this is a great opportunity to make the most of a trip to Amsterdam, the
same paper cannot be submitted to both conferences: papers with a primary focus
on embodied conversational agents and virtual agents are encouraged to submit
to IVA’09; papers with a primary focus on emotion are encouraged to submit to
ACII’09.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>LATEST NEWS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Two invited speakers are confirmed: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Casey Hudson, project director at BioWare and <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Steve Di Paola, artist and scientist, associate
professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Accomodation may be reserved now. BE ON TIME to assure
your hotel, as September will be overbooked in Amsterdam.<o:p></o:p></p>
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