Workshop on Architectures and Standards for IVAs
The scope of building a complete intelligent virtual agent is too vast for a single research group to fully tackle. It requires interdisciplinary collaborations between research groups and reuse of existing components. Starting with the SAIBA framework, an important current research direction deals with facilitating the collaboration between groups using modular architectures, interface standards, reuse of data & assets, and supporting tools, that allow researchers to better leverage each other's work.
Topics include:
- State of the art IVA architectures
- The future of SAIBA (e.g. enhancement with input processing, incrementality)
- Learning from/integrating architectures and standards from related fields (e.g. ROS,
OpenCog, EmotionML, the Incremental Unitarchitecture,
OpenInterface)
- Perception Markup Language (PML)
- Functional Markup Language (FML)
- Behavioral Markup Language (BML)
- Gaps in standardization (e.g. Context Markup Language (CML), messaging, etc.)
- Transfer and transformation best practices (e.g. from FML to BML)
- Data, assets, knowledge and technology sharing
- 3rd party and commercial technology integration and reuse
- Encourage community to participate in new and existing standardization efforts
- Design and development best practices
This full-day workshop will be held on Tuesday, August 26th, at the conference venue.
Organizers:
Chairs:
- Angelo Cafaro, Multimedia Group, CNRSLTCI, TELECOM ParisTech
- Arno Hartholt, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
- Herwin van Welbergen, Sociable Agents, CITEC, Bielefeld University
Program committee:
- Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS-LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech
- David Schlangen, Bielefeld University
- Dirk Heylen, University of Twente
- Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík University
- Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University
- Radosław Niewiadomski, University of Genoa
- Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University
- Stefan Scherer, University of Southern California
- Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University