IVA 2014 - 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
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27.08.2014
bis 29.08.2014 |
Wo | Boston, USA |
Name | Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella, Candy Sidner (Organizing Committee) |
Kontakt-E-Mail | bickmore@ccs.neu.edu |
Termin übernehmen |
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Topics include:
- Design, Modeling and Evaluation of IVAs
- design criteria and design methodologies
- evaluation methodologies and user studies
- ethical considerations and social impact
- applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
- improvisational or dramatic interaction
- dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behaviorv
- models of multimodal perception and action
- models of emotionally communicative behavior
- models of conversational behavior
- models of narrative and storytelling used by agents
- design of virtual actors
- theoretical foundations and formal models for virtual agents
- learned, evolved or emergent behavior in agents
- Implementation and Applications of IVAs
- software engineering issues
- real-time integrated systems
- portability and reuse standards / measures to support interoperability
- specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
- specialized modeling and animation technologies
- applications in games, education, art, etc.
- delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented or mixed reality, robots
- future or current experience in various fields, e.g.: Interactive narrative and story-telling, computer games, art and entertainment, education and training, simulation and visualization
- Special Topic: IVAs in Healthcare
- modeling the verbal and nonverbal behavior of health behavior change counselors
- modeling the verbal and nonverbal behavior of health educators
- agents in simulated worlds for therapy (e.g., desensitization, distraction)
- agents that demonstrate exercise or other physical health behaviors
- agents in mental health counseling and interventions
- virtual patients
- agents for training healthcare professionals
- longitudinal health interventions with virtual agents