SIHVA 2024:  

Computational Modeling of Social Interaction for Human and Virtual Agents 

Special Session at the 16^th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2024)
15-18 April 2024, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE 

Website: https://aciids.pwr.edu.pl/2024/session.php?acronym=SIHVA  

Organizers 

Sophie C.F. Hendrikse 

University of Amsterdam, Psychological Methods Group
E-mail: s.c.f.hendrikse@uva.nl 

Jan Treur 

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Social AI Group
E-mail: j.treur@vu.nl 

Objectives  

From a Computer Science or AI perspective, social interaction for human or virtual agents might simply be modeled like exchange of information. However, as many researchers involved in this area know, in a realistic context there is much more to it than that. Some examples of quite relevant aspects are how information about the other agent is represented and interpreted, how the interaction behaviour is context-sensitive and has flexibility in responses, and can be adaptive over time, for example, like in bonding. Research on all of such and other relevant aspects can be addressed in this track.  

Topics 

Some of the specific topics covered are (but the scope is not limited to these): 

• Multimodal interaction 
• Representing and learning about the other agent, self-other distinction 
• Social contagion and mirroring
• Emergence of similarity during social interaction: homophily, synchrony 
• Adaptivity of interaction behaviour over shorter and longer time periods 
• Interpersonal regulation of emotions between agents 
• Joint-decision making 
  
• Collaborative learning 
• Artificial social systems 
• Social affective computing 
• Socially intelligent agents and multi-agent systems 

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