Call for Papers
Socially Interactive Agents Track (formerly Virtual Agents)
AAMAS 2018, the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
July 10-15, 2018 in Stockholm (http://aamas18.ifaamas.org)
http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/sociallyInteractiveAgentsTrack/
Submissions of abstracts: November 10 2017
Submissions of full papers: November 17, 2017
Dear all,
Stacy Marsella and I are co-chairing the Socially Interactive Agents Track (formerly Virtual Agents) at AAMAS 2018 that will be held in Stockholm, July 10-15 co-located with IJCAI and ICML.
Our goal in taking on this task is to strengthen and significantly broaden the participation at AAMAS of researchers working on social agents. To that end, we are interested in submissions that span, for example, the various technologies used in both embodied and non-embodied social agents, studies in human-agent interaction and the use of virtual agents in applications and research.
A more complete description of the track is [at the url above and reproduced below].
We strongly encourage you to start thinking about submissions to this track.
The submission dates are November 10, 2017 for abstracts and November 17 for full papers.
We would also like to encourage the proposal of workshops and demos.
Hope to see you in Stockholm,
Angelo Cafaro (angelo.cafaro@telecom-paristech.fr) and Stacy Marsella
Socially Interactive Agents (Chairs: Angelo Cafaro and Stacy Marsella)
The Socially Interactive Agents track invites papers on research topics related to the design, implementation, evaluation and application of social agents. Such agents are capable of interacting with people and each other using social communicative behaviors common to human-human interaction. Example applications include social assistants on mobile devices, pedagogical agents in tutoring systems, non-player characters in interactive games and multimodal interface agents for smart appliances and environments. The goal of the social agents track is to provide an opportunity for continued interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on social agents.
We welcome papers that present novel work and contributions on social agent systems, human(s)-agent(s) interaction, applications or evaluations of such systems. Submissions can address innovative, fundamental issues such as behavioral or cognitive models for autonomous social agents, as well as new application areas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Social agent models:
- Reasoning, learning, adaptation and user modeling
- Affect, personality and cultural differences
- Interactive narrative and storytelling
Multimodal interaction:
- Verbal and nonverbal perception, analysis and generation
- Interpersonal coordination
Social agent architectures:
- Tools for designing and building social agents
- Ubiquitous architectures
- Portability and reuse standards/measures to support interoperability
Evaluation methods and studies:
- Empirical studies on social agents
- Ethical considerations and social impact
- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior
Applications:
- Games, education, health, art, marketing and large scale deployments