****** IVA 2006 Call for Papers ******

The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Plus GALA - Gathering of Life-Like Agents

August 21 - 23, 2006
Marina del Rey, California, USA

http://iva2006.ict.usc.edu/

Organizing Committee:
  Ruth Aylett (Heriot-Watt University)
  Daniel Ballin (BT Group)
  Jonathan Gratch (University of Southern California)
  Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne)
  Michael Young (North Carolina State University)

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 modeling, human-computer interaction and A-life.

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 program of timely, high-quality presentations and demonstrations to discuss the state of the art and future of Intelligent Virtual Agents.  Papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

IVA'06 will also host GALA - The Gathering of Life-like Agents - see http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/gala/

Topics of Interest:

  - IVA design and modeling
  - Conceptual architectures for learning IVAs, improvisational IVAs,
    multi-user/multi-IVA interaction, and crowd simulations with IVAs
  - IVA application fields, pilot systems, and experience reports
  - Evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications
  - Software engineering issues

Important Dates:

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

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