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 found in digital form:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3477322

and in printed version:
https://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=1670 (or on Amazon)

The ACM Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents provides a comprehensive overview of the research fields of Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics. Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs), whether virtually or physically embodied, are autonomous agents that are able to perceive an environment including people or other agents, reason, decide how to interact, and express attitudes, emotions, engagement, or even empathy.… read more. “New Publication: The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics”

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 self-identity, surveillance, mourning, internet memes, storytelling, ritual, political action, and activism—this book addresses how the physical and virtual have become inseparable in everyday life, and how the digital is always rooted in embodied action. Focusing on performance and human agency, the authors offer fresh perspectives on communication and digital culture.… read more. “New Publication: Digital Performance in Everyday Life”