Due the numerous requests for an extension of the deadline of the Interaction Agents workshop, the deadline is moved to Monday, March 23 th. Please feel free to circulate the CFP to interested colleagues. Italy Today computers are more and more becoming personal instruments used for different aims, from work to entertainment to communications.
Users require that their machines become part of their lives, a sort of personal appendix.
For this reason, software agents seem to be one of the most promising technologies for many application areas. The aim of this workshop is to examine specific classes of agents, in particular agents able to interact with the world through advanced interfaces that place the user in a new environment where communication is not only verbal and the interaction is naturally conceived. Synthetic or believable agents are entities that operate in artificial environments where they exhibit believable features. Lifelike computer characters are artificial entities whose prospect is making computers behave as people. Animated pedagogical agents work in dynamic environments and physically collaborate in showing, explaining or evaluating user tasks.