NEWS

16 September 2025: The Conference Rooms are now online! Check here to find where the DC / Workshops / Tutorial, and Main conference events will take place

If you are presenting a demo or poster, please check your ID in the detailed program and set up your materials according to the floor plans.

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The annual conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments.

Aesthetics and Culture: This year’s theme explores how aesthetic principles and cultural nuances for Socially Interactive Agents promote user trust, comfort, and willingness to engage. It also includes how culturally informed design cues reduce barriers and promote more intuitive, socially meaningful human-machine collaboration. Last but not least, art and culture are predestined to provide impulses for critical reflection and societal discourse on Socially Interactive Agents. Such contributions are also widely welcomed and appreciated.

As a collaboration with HTW Berlin, IVA 2025 will take place in Berlin at the university’s beautiful campus site at the river Spree. Look forward to this amazing experience!

The main conference will be from Sept 17 to Sept 19. The doctoral consortium, workshops and tutorials will be on Sept 16.

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Important Dates

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Full papers:

Abstract submission: April 4, 2025 April 14, 2025
Full papers submission: April 11, 2025 April 21, 2025

Review process:

Posters:

Poster submission: June 6, 2025 June 13, 2025
Poster notification: July 4, 2025
Camera ready deadline: July 14, 2025

Workshops:

Workshop submission: March 9, 2025
Workshop notification: March 14, 2025

Demos:

Demo submission: May 30, 2025 June 13, 2025
Demo notification: June 30, 2025

Doctoral Consortium:

DC paper submission: June 23, 2025 June 30, 2025
DC paper notification: July 11, 2025

Conference Dates:

Main Conference: September 17 – 19 
DC/Workshops/Tutorials: September 16