CFP: IVA09: Deadline Extension

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> 3rd Call For Papers
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> Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'09)
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> http://iva09.dfki.de/
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> September 14-16, 2009
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> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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> Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that
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> exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or each other
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> using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are
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> capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them
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> to participate in a dynamic social environment.
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> IVA'09 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum
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> for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating
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> intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and
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> social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues,
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> the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications.
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> Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction
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> are also welcome to share work which has a bearing on intelligent
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> virtual agents. IVA'09 is held in cooperation with the Association
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> for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the European
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> Association for Computer Graphics (EG) and the Association for
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> Computing Machinery (ACM SIGART and SIGCHI).
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> SPECIAL TOPIC: GAMES
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> IVA'09 particularly encourages submissions on this year's
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> special topic of games. The game industry is the source of the
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> world's largest selection of interactive characters. To date, the
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> creation of these characters and their social behaviors has largely
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> relied on carefully hand crafted techniques rather than automation.
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> With larger environments, grander stories, more players and a greater
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> demand for realism, hand crafted approaches are unlikely to scale.
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> Imbuing characters with more intelligence and self-determination is an
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> ongoing and so far unfulfilled goal of the game industry. IVA'09
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> is an opportunity to reveal, tackle and discuss the issues that relate
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> to using intelligent virtual agents in games and aims to strengthen
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> links and the exchange of knowledge between academia and the game
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> industry.
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> TOPICS OF INTEREST
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> Design and modeling of IVAs
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> - design criteria and design methodologies
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> - evaluation methodologies and user studies
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> - ethical considerations and social impact
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> - applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
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> - dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
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> - models of personality and cultural awareness
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> - models of social competence
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> - models of multimodal perception and action
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> - models of emotional communicative behavior
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> Implementation of IVAs
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> - software engineering issues
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> - real-time integrated systems
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> - portability and reuse
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> - standards / measures to support interoperability
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> - specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
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> - specialized modeling and animation technologies
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> Applications of IVAs
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> - future role and/or current experience in various fields including
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> - computer games
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> - art and entertainment
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> - education and training
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> - simulation and visualization
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> - delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi- user, virtual/augmented/
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> Conceptual Frameworks for IVAs
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> - learned, evolved or emergent behavior
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> - improvisational or dramatic interaction
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> - stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents)
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> - massive simulations of crowds
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> SUBMISSION DETAILS
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> Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14 pages),
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> short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer
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> Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For details on how
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> to submit your paper, consult the conference web site:
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> http://iva09.dfki.de
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> IMPORTANT DATES
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> 26 April, 2009 Submission of short and long IVA09
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> 30 May, 2009 Notifications of acceptance
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> 19 June, 2009 Camera-ready copies
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> 01 June, 2009 GALA video submission
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> 14-16 September, 2009 Conference
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> ORGANIZATION
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> Chairs Zsófia Ruttkay, University
> of Twente, The Netherlands
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> Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany
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> Anton Nijholt, University of Twente,
> The Netherlands
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> Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík
> University, Iceland
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> Best Paper Chair Thomas Rist, FH Augsburg, Germany
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> Submissions Chair Patrick Gebhard, DFKI, Germany
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> Poster and Demo Chair Dirk Heylen, University of
> Twente, The Netherlands
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> Local Organization
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> Chair Betsy van Dijk, University
> of Twente, The Netherlands
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> Senior Program Committee
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> Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany
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> Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
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> Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK
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> Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA
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> Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
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> Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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> Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
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> Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, TELECOM-ParisTech, France
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> Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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> MORE INFORMATION
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> Please visit the conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de/
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> Contact conference chair: iva09@dfki.de
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> GALA 2009
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> The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents will take place at
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> IVA'09. Demonstrate your agent in action, or develop a sensitive
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> viewer of a tennis match - and win the 350 Euro Jury Award!
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> NEW this year is that each GALA submission should have a 2 page paper,
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> which will be published in the IVA09 Springer proceedings.
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> For details, see: http://irgen.ncl.ac.uk/gala
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> GALA 2 page paper deadline 1 May 2009
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> GALA video deadline 1 June 2009
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> CO-LOCATION WITH ACII'09
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> IVA'09 will be co-located in Amsterdam with the complementary
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> Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction International Conference
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> (ACII'09) (http://www.acii2009.nl/), held 10-12 September
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> 2009. While this is a great opportunity to make the most of a trip to
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> Amsterdam, the same paper cannot be submitted to both conferences:
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> papers with a primary focus on embodied conversational agents and
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> virtual agents are encouraged to submit to IVA'09; papers with a
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> primary focus on emotion are encouraged to submit to ACII'09.
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> LATEST NEWS
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> - Paper submission site opened on 31.March
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> - Accomodation may be reserved now. BE ON TIME to assure your hotel,
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> as September will be overbooked in Amsterdam.