Topics of Interest
* IVA design and modeling
- 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
- modeling 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 experience reports
- education and training with IVAs
- psychological modeling and experimentation
- games
- interactive narrative with IVAs
- telepresence
- case studies and evaluation reports on IVA pilots etc.
* Evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications
- evaluation methodologies / evaluation frameworks
- reports on user studies and their outcomes
- evaluation and data collection tools for IVAs
* Software engineering issues
- standards and measures to support interoperability, portability, and reuse
- tools and toolkits for building IVAs and IVA applications
- advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies for IVAs
