New Publication: The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Establishing SIA Research, Appearance and Behaviour, Social Cognition Editors: Birgit Lugrin, University of Wurzburg, Catherine Pelachaud, Sorbonne University, David Traum, University of Southern California ISBN: 9781450387217 | PDF ISBN: 9781450387231 Hardcover ISBN: 9781450387200 Copyright 2021 | 538 Pages DOI: 10.1145/3477322 November 14, 2021 Our new handbook came out: The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics The Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition, can be…

Book Announcement:  Digital Performance in Everyday Life by Lyndsay Michalik Gratch and Ariel Gratch, Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Performance-in-Everyday-Life/Gratch-Gratch/p/book/9781138342149 [Preview at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Performance-Everyday-Lyndsay-Michalik/dp/1138342149/ ] This title will be released on November 12, 2021. Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Digital communication technologies and the social norms and discourses that developed alongside these technologies have altered the ways we perform as and for ourselves and each other in virtual spaces. Through a diverse range of topics and examples—including discussions of…