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Information about camera-ready material and copyright submission to ACM will be provided at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth), equivalent to GMT\/UTC\u221212:00 on the stated day, irrespective of the submitter\u2019s location. The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of virtual agents with social interaction capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IVA 2026, the 26th Annual Conference, will be held in Puebla, Mexico, September 7\u201311, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities, including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, and gestures. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion, and action, allowing them to participate in dynamic social interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IVA 2026 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction, such as social perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research, and showcases of working applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Submissions will be accepted through EasyChair: For poster submissions, an extended abstract is required and will undergo a review process. The poster will be presented during the conference following acceptance of the extended abstract. During the initial submissions in EasyChair, authors can choose whether their accepted extended abstract will be included in the ACM Digital Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Important:<\/strong> Submissions need to be anonymized. Extended abstracts and supplemental materials must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. Failure to do so will lead to desk rejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Submissions to the poster track must be written in English and in the form of a two-page to three-page extended abstract (not including references). Furthermore, authors are encouraged to use color palettes for figures that are inclusive and accessible, avoiding combinations that may be difficult for individuals with color vision deficiencies to interpret, such as red-green or blue-yellow contrasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For scientific submissions, the extended abstract should include a 100-word abstract, a concise description of the idea, the results and findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implementation of the work in the selected area of work. Full literature searches are not expected, although relevant citations should be included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All scientific submissions that wish to be included in the ACM Digital Library must be prepared in the ACM Standard (\u201cSigConf\u201d) format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Templates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By submitting your article to an ACM publication, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM\u2019s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved with ORCID from the start, and has recently committed to collecting ORCID IDs from all published authors. ACM is committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please follow all ACM policies: https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the extended abstracts, authors are encouraged to provide supplemental material, such as images, videos, or documentation, to illustrate their work. This supplemental material must not contain any information essential for understanding the extended abstract and must not contain any new contributions. It should, however, be an addition to the extended abstract to provide more clarity, such as a video showing the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poster track is not aligned with the conference paper track (https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2026\/call-for-papers\/<\/a>). In the event that a conference paper submission is rejected, authors are encouraged to submit a shorter version as an extended abstract for consideration as a poster at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authors of posters are also encouraged to submit to the conference demo track (https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2026\/call-for-demos\/<\/a>) to showcase their application as a demo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Submissions will be reviewed using a juried process in a double-blind fashion, during which each extended abstract will be read and evaluated by two reviewers. If reviewers do not reach an agreement, the final decisions will be made collectively by the Poster Chairs. Authors will receive reviews of their submissions that explain the decision and provide feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The possible outcomes of this review process are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authors of conditionally accepted submissions are expected to address any necessary revisions before submitting their final camera-ready version, mainly minor issues. This will be verified by the primary reviewer and the Poster Chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a high chance that there will be a dedicated poster fast-forward session held at the conference, providing authors of accepted posters with between 30 seconds and 1 minute to present and promote their work, depending on the total number of accepted submissions. Subsequently, there will be a designated poster presentation slot, during which the posters will be showcased. It is required that at least one author be physically present at their poster during this time to engage in discussions with attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Further details regarding the format and specifics of the poster presentation and fast-forward session will be provided at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by the authors to edit their own grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All submissions must be original work not previously presented at any workshop, symposium, or conference and not published in any archived conference proceeding, magazine, or journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable and will lead to the removal of the submission from the review process. Please also see the ACM guidelines here: https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/plagiarism-overview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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