Workshop on Socially Intelligent Virtual Agents
Explore the cutting-edge field of socially intelligent virtual agents in this 3-hour workshop from IEEE VR 2022. Delve into innovative projects and emerging challenges in developing individualized, social human-agent relationships enabled by recent AI advancements. Learn about user-controlled avatars, conversational agents' functional aspects, and topics such as transformed social interaction, synchronization engines, and artificial elements. Examine research on hybrid technologies, motion capture, and MRI studies, while considering ethical issues and potential drawbacks. Gain insights from keynote speakers, participate in interactive discussions, and discover experimental setups and results that shape the future of virtual agent technology.