IVA2006 Marina del Rey CFP

Conference Scope
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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are autonomous, graphically embodied
agents in an interactive, 2D or 3D virtual environment. They are able to
interact intelligently with the environment, other IVAs, and especially
with human users. The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for
researchers and practitioners in computer graphics, animation, computer
games, virtual environments, artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, cognitive modelling, human-computer interaction and A-life.

Since the first IVA back in 1999 firm lines of research have been
established but there is much that the graphics and AI communities have
to learn from each other. Moreover, the domain of Intelligent Virtual
Agents has become much more diverse and now encompasses a wide range of
disciplines including in particular cognitive and social psychology
(emotion modelling, non-verbal communication), sociology (modelling
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.

IVA'06 will be a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry with an interest in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications. We aim for
a lively programme of timely, high-quality presentations and
demonstrations to discuss the state of the art and future of Intelligent
Virtual Agents.


Timeline
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7 April 2006:    Deadline for submissions of contributions
12 May 2006:     Authors notification
26 May 2006:     Submission of camera ready contribution


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University
e-mail: ruth@macs.hw.ac.uk

Daniel Ballin, Chief Technology Office, BT Group
e-mail: daniel.ballin@bt.com

Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
e-mail: gratch@ict.usc.edu

Patrick Olivier, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
e-mail: P.L.Olivier@ncl.ac.uk

Michael Young, North Carolina State University
e-mail: young@csc.ncsu.edu


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Jan Albeck
George Anastassakis
Elisabeth Andre
Norman Badler
Josep Blat
Joanna Bryson
Lola Canamero
Justine Cassell
Marc Cavazza
Elizabeth Churchill
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Betsy van Dijk
Patrick Doyle
Angelica de Antonio
Fiorella de Rosis
Patrick Gebhard
Marco Gillies
Randy Hill
Adrian Hilton
Kristina Hook
Katherine Isbister
Mitsuru Ishizuka
Ido Iurgel
Lewis Johnson
Martin Klesen
Stefan Kopp
John Laird
James Lester
Craig Lindley
Brian Loyall
Steve Maddock
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Andrew Marriot
Stacy Marsella
Michael Mateus
Alexander Nareyek
Anton Nijholt
Gregory O'Hare
Sharon Oviatt
Ana Paiva
Zhigeng Pan
Catherine Pelachaud
Paolo Petta
Tony Polichroniadis
Helmut Prendinger
Matthias Rehm
Daniela Romano
Zsofia Ruttkay
Anthony Steed
Matthew Stone
Daniel Thalmann
Kris Thorisson
Demetri Terzopoulos
David Traum
Ana Vaz
Hannes Vilhjalmsson
John Vince
Spyros Vosinakis