👉 Although the deadline for full papers, extended abstracts and demos was extended, their abstracts need to be submitted until Friday, April 14th. #IVA23

The #IVA2023 organising committee solicits proposals for full-day and half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Proposals are open until April 19th. 🔗For more information visit iva.acm.org/2023/call-for-…

Happy to announce that one more preprint of Volume 2 of our Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents is online. sociallyinteractiveagents.org/VOLUME-2/ It’s chapter 27 on "Socially Interactive Agents in Games" by Rui Prada and Diogo Rato Diogo Rato @inescid GAIPS Lab Enjoy reading!

Happy to share chapter 28 on "Serious Games with Socially Interactive Agents" by Patrick Gebhard, Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Tanja Schneeberger, and Fabrizio Nunnari on sociallyinteractiveagents.org/VOLUME-2/ Enjoy reading! Fabrizio Nunnari. AffectiveComputingGroup DFKI #affectivecomputing #gamesresearch

Challenge discussion on SIAs out (sociallyinteractiveagents.org) with lots of great co-authors! Catherine Pelachaud, E. André, Ruth Aylett also bluesky and mastodon.scot, Timothy Bickmore, Cynthia Breazeal, J. Broekens, K. Dautenhahn, J. Gratch USC ICT, S. Kopp Social Cognitive Systems, J. Nadel, Ana Paiva GAIPS Lab, Agnieszka Wykowska

We are proud to announce the second keynote speaker at #IVA23 is Rachel McDonnell from Trinity College Dublin, who will talk about "Perception of digital avatars and agents in the 'Metaverse'".

🗣️ Have you check the social events of #IVA23? 🍎🖼️ Thursday will be the third day of the conference and the lunch will happen in the “Antikensammlung” of the renowned Martin von Wagner Museum within the “Würzburger Residenz”.

and the world is as it should be... ❤️

Very happy to having chaired a fantastic session on "human-agent teams" yesterday @aamas2023 check out the papers: southampton.ac.uk/~eg/AAMAS2023/…

🐦 Registration for the conference is already open and the early bird is until August 15th. Check the information at the #IVA23 website: iva.acm.org/2023/registrat…

If you are planning to attend the *welcome reception* after the tutorial/doctoral consortium day, prior to the main conference, there will be 2 meeting points: - 17:20 at the IVA entrance of the Residence - 18:00 at the town hall of Würzburg, Beim Grafeneckart 1, 97070 Würzburg

For the 17:20 meeting point: on the right side of the front of the building when facing the residence from the parking lot. We will walk there together!

For 18:00 o'clock at the town hall of Würzburg, Beim Grafeneckart 1, 97070 Würzburg. Use the entrance opposite the pont (Vierröhrenbrunnen) into the historical Wenzelsaal in the tower of the town hall.

Professor Elisabeth André has been elected a Fellow for her contributions to the Affective Computing field. Congratulations, and THANK YOU! #ACII2023

Welcome to #IVA23!

IVA‘s official opening session by Birgit Lugrin just started 🙌🏼

Let’s enjoy our #IVA23 conference dinner with a stunning view over #Würzburg🍷

🏅 Congratulations! The best paper award of #IVA23 goes to Amine Benamara, Jean-Claude Martin, Prigent Elise and Brian Ravenet with their paper ‘Evaluating a Model of Pathological Affect based on Pedagogical Situations for a Virtual Patient‘ 👏🏼

Fantastic last day of this year’s #IVA23 conference in Würzburg! Thanks to all participants for coming and making this conference outstanding! 🙌🏼🌟

What a pleasure and honour to host such an event!!!