Co-Located with ACII 2026
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.
The main conference will be from Sept 7 to Sept 11.
This year’s theme “Social Cognition for Human-AI Cooperation” explores in particular how the fundamental mechanisms and processes of social cognition can be studied using IVAs, as well as how they can be computationally modelled for IVAs to enable a new level of cooperative interaction between humans and AI-based agents. Unraveling possible and emerging forms of human-AI cooperation, along with their effects and implications, will provide impulses for the advancement and critical reflection on socially interactive agents. Such contributions are also widely welcomed and appreciated.
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Important Dates
All deadlines anywhere on earth (UTC−12)
Full papers:
Abstract Submissions: 3th April 2026 (Extended)Paper Submissions: 10th April 2026 (Extended)
Review process:
Review Notification: 23rd May 2026
Final Notification of Acceptance: 15th June 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 07th July 2026
Workshop & Tutorial process:
Submission Deadline: 10th April 2026 (Extended)
Notification of Acceptance: 17th April 2026 (Extended)
Posters Process:
Submission Deadline: 22nd June 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 10th July 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 20th July 2026
