8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Tokyo, Japan

<P>Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are autonomous, graphically embodied agents in a virtual environment that are able to interact intelligently with human users, other IVAs, and their environment&#046;<BR><BR>IVA 2008 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human&#8211;computer interaction&#046; </P><B>Keywords:</B> <UL> <LI>Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents</LI> <LI>Affective interaction and emotion models</LI> <LI>Models of personality and culture</LI> <LI>Conversational and non&#8211;verbal behavior</LI> <LI>Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents</LI> <LI>Embodied cognitive modeling</LI> <LI>Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents</LI> <LI>Markup and representation languages</LI> <LI>Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games</LI> <LI>Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies</LI> <LI>Applications and user studies</LI></UL>