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During the AAAI conference I discovered scientists of the Socially Intelligent Machines research lab from the Georgia Institute of Technology working enthusiastically on Simon, the robot which we previously have covered at Chatbots.org.

Here’s a video of my personal experience:

The Chatbots 3.0 conference in Philadelphia was a huge success.  We had about 25 attendees and 11 high quality presentations. A number of people who were unable to attend have made requests to see the presentations.  We have asked the speakers to submit links to their talks so that you can view them.

Richard Wallace, Pandorabots - Pandorabots overview (ppt, windows, mac, PDF)

IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. The conference encourages a spectrum of presentations from theoretical issues to working applications. Researchers in human-human and human-robot interaction are also welcome to share work relevant to intelligent virtual agents.

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are (in the definition of the organisation) interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as behavior, gesture and speech. IVAs are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in a dynamic social environment.

It is being held September 20-22, 2010, in Philadelphia, USA.

Last year I’ve attended the conference in Amsterdam and it was awesome! Truely awesome. You can still expect our report on Chatbots.org, which in a more academic context than we currently present ourselves. The realtime emotion aware parameterized avatar system of Steve DiPaola was a video report of things we’ve experienced in Amsterdam. Furthermore, we’ve attened the IVA GALA 2009 awards and we’ll soon make sure the participants and winners are uploaded to the 2009 page of IVA GALA. It’s all coming up!

2010 will be a great year for the virtual agent/chatbot researchers and businesses!

A new book gathering the most relevant research on Conversational Agents is going to be published by IGI next year.  We invite you to contribute to this project, and make your work visible to a large community of people.

Chapter proposals of 2-3 pages are expected on or before December 16, 2009 explaining the mission and concerns of your chapter to me, Diana Perez.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 16, 2010. Full chapters (8,000-10,000 words) are expected to be submitted by April 16, 2010. Once the book is published in November 2010, authors may get a complimentary copy of the e-book and a discount for additional printed copies of the book.