The Eight International Conference Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'08) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1-3, 2008. The conference will gather researchers studying different aspects in the creation of, and interaction with virtual agents. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14 pages), short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1 page) in Springer LNAI format.
Conference Chairs

* Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
* Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Topics

* Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents
* Affective interaction and emotion models
* Models of personality and culture
* Conversational and non-verbal behavior
* Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents
* Embodied cognitive modeling
* Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents
* Markup and representation languages
* Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games
* Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies
* Applications and user studies