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ACM 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
September 16-19, 2024, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2024 Intelligent Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier
international event for interdisciplinary research on the design,
application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a
specific focus on the ability to socially interact.
IVA 2024, the 24th Annual Conference, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland,
September 16-19, 2024.
Note IVA 2024 will be co-located with the conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII).
IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities
including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial
expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time
perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows them to
participate in dynamic social interactions.
IVA 2024 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design,
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 research and showcases of working applications.
SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not
limited to:
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
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
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 tool chains
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
APPLICATIONS:
* Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling,
games, art, etc.
* Virtual agents in games and simulations
* Social agents as tools in psychology
* Migration of agents between platforms
Special Theme
A special theme this year at IVA will be on the use of multimodal
machine learning and large language/foundation models in agent design
and implementation, as well as comparison of these techniques to
alternative approaches. These advances promise to make virtual agents
more robust, human-like and capable of autonomous open-ended
interaction. At the same time these advances can raise critical
ramifications for the design process's ability to ensure the behavior of
the agent is appropriately circumscribed for an application.
Note: IVA 2024 will as usual have a doctoral consortium, workshops and
demos. Details can be found at the web site: https://iva.acm.org/2024/