Chairs: Ana Paiva and David Sarne
The Socially Interactive Agents track invites papers on research topics related to the design, implementation, evaluation and application of social agents including social robots. Such agents (and robots) are capable of interacting with people and each other using social communicative behaviors common to human-human interaction. Example applications include social assistants on mobile devices, pedagogical agents in tutoring systems, characters in interactive games, social robots collaborating with humans and multimodal interface agents for smart appliances and environments. The goal of the social agents track is to provide an opportunity for continued interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on social interactive agents.
We welcome papers that present novel work and contributions on social agent systems, human(s)-agent(s) interaction, applications or evaluations of such systems. Submissions can address innovative, fundamental issues such as behavioral or cognitive models for autonomous social agents, as well as new application areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Humans and Agents/Robots:
- Human-robot/agent interaction
- Multi-user/multi-agent interaction
- Agents competing and collaborating with humans
- Agent-based analysis of human interactions
- Agents for improving human cooperative activities
- Groups of humans and agents
Social agent models:
- Reasoning, learning, adaptation and user modeling
- Affect, personality and cultural differences
Multimodal interaction:
- Verbal and nonverbal communication for social agents (perception, analysis and generation)
- Gaze, gestures, emotions, facial expressions, etc. (recognition and generation)
- Dialogue models for social agents
Humans and Agents/Robots:
- Interactive and Active Learning for Social Agents
- Transfer Learning for human-agent Interactions
Social agent architectures:
- Tools for designing and building social agents
- Ubiquitous architectures
- Portability and reuse standards/measures to support interoperability
Evaluation methods and studies:
- Empirical studies on social agents
- Ethical considerations and social impact
- New methods and new metrics for evaluating human-agent interaction
- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior
Applications:
- Interactive storytelling, entertainment, education, health, art, chatbots, marketing and large scale deployments