Topics of Interest
To discuss the state of the art and future of Intelligent Virtual
Agents from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective, IVA'03 seeks for timely, high-quality contributions
(i.e., short and long research papers, demonstrations and installations, and posters describing original
and innovative work in the following fields:
- IVA design and modelling
- design criteria and methodologies
- nature inspired IVAs/A-life for IVAs
- models of affect and personality for IVAs
- models for IVAs with awareness of their social context
- modelling conversational skills and multi-modal interaction
- non-verbal expressiveness in IVAs - gesture, facial expression, posture
- media-specific design considerations, e.g., IVAs for VR, AR, web, and mobile applications
- deployment of novel interaction modalities (e.g., vision, touch, phycons etc.)
- IVAs with physical embodiment: lessons from and for robotics
- ethical considerations, e.g., what human-qualities can / should IVAs have / never have
- Conceptual architectures, e.g.for
- learning IVAs
- improvisational IVAs
- multi-user /multi-IVA interaction
- crowd simulations with IVAs
- IVA application fields, pilot systems, and evaluation
- education and training with IVAs
- games
- interactive narrative with IVAs
- telepresence
- case studies and evaluation reports on IVA pilots etc.
- Software engineering issues
- standards and measures to support interoperability, portability, and reuse
- tools and toolkits for building IVAs and IVA applications
- advanced 3D modelling and animation technologies for IVAs
