Workshops offered on Tuesday August 25
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Workshop 1: Virtual Health Agents
Abstract:
One domain in which intelligent virtual agents are becoming more popular is the health domain. With the changing demography in the western world, the health-care costs are expecting to increase. Less health care professionals will be available for more “care needy persons”. Virtual health agents could play several roles to address part of the increasing care needs. For example, they could act as virtual patients to train doctors, provide patients with information and advice in or outside health centers, or act as coaches as part of self-health management at home. This workshop will bring together researchers to discuss recent and ongoing research in their area. They will discuss conceptual and technical aspects of virtual health agent development and behavior, the relationships and interactions with humans, but also design and evaluation methods.
Organizers:
Mark A. Neerincx (Delft Univeristy of Technology, TNO) - m.a.neerincx@tudelft.nl
Myrthe L. Tielman (Delft University of Technology) - m.l.tielman@tudelft.nl
Corine Horsch (Delft University of Technology) - c.h.g.horsch@tudelft.nl
Willem-Paul Brinkman (Delft University of Technology) - w.p.brinkman@tudelft.nl
Karel van den Bosch (TNO) - Karel.vandenbosch@tno.nl
Robbert-Jan Beun (Utrecht University) - r.j.beun@uu.nl
Dates:
Paper submission: June 5 , 2015
Acceptance notification: June 26, 2015
Workshop: August 25, 2015
Website:
http://ii.tudelft.nl/virtualhealthagents
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Workshop 2: Engagement in Social Intelligent Virtual Agents
Abstract:
Engagement is a fundamental aspect of the user experience with intelligent virtual agents. It emphasises both positive and negative aspects of the interaction. Many objective and subjective measures have been used to design experiments which study engagement with respect to, for instance, perceived user feedback and automatic classification of multimodal behavioural features. The ESIVA Workshop addresses the questions of how user engagement can be studied, measured, and explained, so as to facilitate the development of user interfaces able to engage people in social communication.
Chairs:
Loredana Cerrato (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
João Cabral (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Anna Esposito (Salerno University and IIASS, Italy)
Benjamin Cowan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dates:
Paper submission: 8th June 2015
Acceptance notification: 1st July 2015
Workshop: 25th August 2015
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