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IVA 2019: ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference
Paris, France, July 2-5, 2019
Conference websitehttps://iva2019.sciencesconf.org/
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva2019
Abstract registration deadlineMarch 1, 2019
Submission deadlineMarch 8, 2019
Notification of acceptanceApril 8, 2019
Camera ready versions dueApril 22, 2019
Topics: multimodal interaction social learning intelligent virtual agents behavior models

The 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) will be held on July 2–5 2019 in Paris, France. The conference is organized by CNRS, Sorbonne University and Paris-Saclay University (France), and sponsored by ACM-SIGAI.

The IVA conference started in 1998 as a workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Brighton, UK, which was followed by a similar one in 1999 in Salford, Manchester, UK. Then dedicated stand-alone IVA conferences took place in Madrid, Spain, in 2001, Irsee, Germany, in 2003, and Kos, Greece, in 2005. Since 2006 IVA has become a full-fledged annual international event, which was first held in Marina del Rey, California, then Paris, France, in 2007, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2011, Santa Cruz, USA, in 2012, Edinburgh, UK, in 2013, Boston, USA, in 2014, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015, Los Angeles, USA, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017. IVA 2018 was held in Sydney, Australia.

Paper submission


We invite submissions of full research papers and extended abstracts on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of virtual agents, agent modeling and evaluation, agents in games and simulations, and applications of virtual agents. Extended abstracts presenting late breaking work are also welcome.

IVA 2019 is the 19th meeting of an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. IVAs are interactive digital characters that exhibit human-like qualities and can communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities like facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications.

IVA 2019’s special topic is “Social Learning”, that is learning while interaction socially; agents can learn from the humans and humans can learn from the agents. Agents can take different roles such as tutors, peers, motivators, coaches in training and in serious games. They can act as job recruiter, virtual patient, and nurse to name a few applications. With this topic in mind we are seeking closer engagement with industry and also with social psychologists.

Submission format

Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format.

  • The LaTeX template for the “ACM Standard”/“SigConf” format can be found inside the official 2017 ACM Master article template package, please use the most recent version (1.57a) that is available at the ACM: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
  • The “ACM Standard” Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the "Interim Word Template" instead.

IVA 2019 accepts two types of submissions:

  • Full papers: 7 pages + 1 additional page of references
  • Extended abstracts: 3 pages (including references)

Papers need to be submitted in PDF-format.


Anonymity Guidelines

Please remove author and institution information from the author list on the title page, remove author information from all paper headers, and remove from the text any clues that would directly identify any of the authors. Please anonymize your PDF file. Note that PDF creator programs may automatically include author information in the file metadata.

Citations of your own published work (including online) must be in the third person, in a manner that is not traceable to the identity of the authors. For example, the wording “in [3], Mountain and River have proposed…” is acceptable, whereas “in [3], we have proposed…“ is not. (Where reference [3] is listed explicitly as “Mountain, A. and River, A., Detecting Mountains and Rivers, In Proc. UIST ’16, 721-741.”)

Failure to comply with the above requirements will result in automatic rejection of the paper.

Supplementary Materials

Submissions may be (optionally) accompanied by additional materials such as images, videos, or electronic documents. They will be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers. Supplementary materials are to be integrated in the submitted paper (e.g., including a link to a YouTube video). Authors should not violate the anonymity guidelines by including supplementary materials. 

To the extent possible, accepted papers should stand on their own, with the additional material providing supplementary information or confirmation of results. It is, however, appropriate to refer to video footage in the paper. 

Submission Procedure

Attention: As there is a tight schedule due to the early conference date this year, IVA has a two-step submission procedure. Full papers and extended abstracts need to be “registered” on EasyChair by March 1, 2019 (a submission with title, authors, abstract, the paper itself is not yet required at this point). This way reviewers can already be assigned to submissions. The deadline for submission of the papers/PDF is one week later, on March 8, 2019. To finally submit the paper, re-login to EasyChair and update your submission by uploading the PDF file.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva2019

Publication

Full papers and extended abstracts will be published in the ACM digital library. All submissions will be reviewed via a double-blind review process.

Attendance


Paper acceptance is always conditional on at least one author registering for the conference and presenting the work in person.

Important dates

Full papers and extended abstracts:

  • Registration of papers/extended abstracts on EasyChair: March 1, 2019 (see Submission Procedure above)
  • Submission Deadline: March , 2019
  • Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2019
  • Camera Ready: April 22, 2019

Deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).

Committee


Conference Chairs

  • Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France
  • Jean-Claude Martin, CNRS-LIMSI, University Paris Saclay, France

Program co-chairs

  • Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA
  • Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany

Scope and list of topics


IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

Socio-emotional agent models: 

  • Cognition, machine learning and adaptation
  • Emotion, personality and cultural differences
  • Model of emotionally communicative behavior
  • Model of conversational behavior
  • Model of social skills
  • Machine learning for endowing virtual agents with social skills

Multimodal interaction:

  • Verbal and nonverbal coordination
  • Engagement
  • Interpersonal relation
  • Multi-party interaction
  • Model driven by theoretical foundations from psychology
  • Data driven model

Social agent architectures:

  • Design criteria and design methodologies
  • Real-time human-agent interaction
  • Incremental agent control
  • Real-time integrated system

Evaluation methods and studies:

  • Evaluation methodologies and user studies
  • Ethical considerations and societal impact
  • Applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
  • Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior

Applications:

  • Social skills training
  • Virtual agents in games and simulations
  • Applications in education, health, games, art

Social learning:

  • Learning in social interaction
  • Social skills acquisition model
  • Learning in interaction with agents

Warning

There is a conference called ICIVA 2019 that claims to be the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents in Bali in October 2019. This conference is not the official IVA and is launched by the organization “World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology” that is known for its predatory publishing practices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Academy_of_Science,_Engineering_and_Technology)

Please note that no paper submitted to ICIVA 2019 in Bali will be published in the IVA 2019 proceedings.

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