Workshop program

Schedule

• 9:30 - 9:40 - Welcome

• 9:40 - 10:30 - Keynote talk #1 Prof. Gabriel Skantze, Conversational AI for Social Robots: Are We Ready Yet?

• 10:30 - 10:50 - Coffee break

• 10:50 - 11:50 - Oral presentations

  1. Amelie Voges, My Robot, My Rules: Exploring the Impact of User-driven Customization on First Impressions of Social Robots

  2. Andrew Blair, Human-Centered Design of Social Robots: Addressing Stakeholder Involvement to Enhance Long-Term Interaction Success

  3. Ruben Decoster, SPACE 2.0: The Development of a Virtual Learning Environment to Train Students’ Communication Skills through Human-Computer Interaction with Virtual Avatars

• 12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch break (lunch will be provided by IVA)

• 13:00 - 13:50 - Keynote talk #2 Deividas Matačiūnas, The Role of Agentic Workflows in Business Applications

• 13:50 - 14:50 - Demos

  1. Guido Jongen, Animation Control for Digital Humans

  2. Andrius Marcinkevičius, Transforming E-commerce: Realistic 3D Avatars in Virtual Fitting Applications

  3. Nick van Apeldoorn, Virtual Agents Mimicking Crying: A New Frontier in Experimental Psychological Research

• 14:50 - 15:00 - Closing

Venue

The conference will take place at the Grosvenor Hilton Hotel

1-9 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow G12 0TB, UK

More information https://iva.acm.org/2024/venue/