Topics
Design and Modeling of IVAs
•design criteria and design methodologies
•evaluation methodologies and user studies
•ethical considerations and social impact
•applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)
•dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior
•models of personality and cultural awareness
•models of social competence
•models of multimodal perception and action
•models of emotional communicative behavior



Implementation of IVAs
•software engineering issues
•real-time integrated systems
•portability and reuse
•standards / measures to support interoperability
•specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains
•specialized modeling and animation technologies




Applications of IVAs
•future role and/or current experience in various fields, e.g.:
•computer games
•art and entertainment
•education and training
•simulation and visualization
•delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi-user, virtual/augmented/mixed reality



Conceptual Frameworks for IVAs
•learned, evolved or emergent behavior
•improvisational or dramatic interaction
•stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents)



Special Topic: Virtual Human Communities
•virtual populace simulation
•authoring tools
•cultural models
•spatiotemporal data


IVA-2010 particularly encourages submissions on this year’s special topics of virtual human communities.