[Graphics-net] IVA 2010 Call for Participation - Early Registration until July 16

[Timothy Bickmore]

**    Early Registration Deadline Extended to July 16    **
** $10 discount for members in cooperating organizations **

10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA 2010

20-22 September 2010

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

http://iva2010.org

Final Program will be posted soon at iva2010.org.


Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that
exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each
other using natural human modalities such as behavior, gesture and
speech.  IVAs are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action
that allow them to participate in a dynamic social environment.

IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum
for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating
intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and
social behavior.  The conference encourages a spectrum of presentations
from theoretical issues to working applications.  Research on
human-human and human-robot interaction adapted to intelligent embodied
agents is also welcome.

Keynote Speakers (see iva2010.org for details)
* Paul Debevec - Associate Director, Graphics Research, ICT, USC;
   Research Associate Professor, ICT, USC
* Ruben Gur, Ph. D.-  Professor of Psychology, University of
   Pennsylvania; Director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory; "The
   Neurobiology of Emotion Processing by Humans and Computers"
* Lee Sheldon -  Anti-Linear Logic; Assistant Professor, Department of
   Telecommunications, Indiana University; "Virtual Agents in the Modular
   World"

GALA 2010

The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (GALA) will once again take
place at IVA; please visit the website http://iva2010.org/gala


Chairs

Norman Badler: University of Pennsylvania, USA
Catherine Pelachaud: CNRS, Télécom ParisTech, France
Jan Allbeck: George Mason University, USA
Timothy Bickmore: Northeastern University, USA

www.iva2010.org

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