IVA 2008

The Eight International Conference Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'08) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1-3, 2008. The conference will gather researchers studying different aspects in the creation of, and interaction with virtual agents. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14 pages), short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1 page) in Springer LNAI format. Conference Chairs

* Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA * Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Topics

* Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents * Affective interaction and emotion models * Models of personality and culture * Conversational and non-verbal behavior * Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents * Embodied cognitive modeling * Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents * Markup and representation languages * Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games * Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies * Applications and user studies This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP