@inproceedings{3223db64dbdf48329b5fe7b74ccd8473,
title = "DEBP-PVA: Designing and Evaluating Behavioral Paradigms with Proactive Virtual Agents",
abstract = "This workshop examines the design and evaluation of behavioral paradigms that effectively elicit and measure proactive behavior in Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). Current paradigms focus mainly on agent behavior. However, it remains unclear how these paradigms effectively help to elicit and measure proactive agent interactions and produce ecologically valid data, particularly for paradigms that promote the use of different modalities during interaction beyond text or speech. We invite researchers to discuss methodologies for developing tasks that not only structure agent behaviors but also provide meaningful insights into the social and cognitive processes involved in proactive interactions.",
keywords = "Behavioral Paradigms, Ecological Validity, Evaluation Methods, Human-Agent Interaction, Intelligent Virtual Agents, Multimodal Interaction, Proactive Behavior, Proactivity, Task Design",
author = "Alafate Abulimiti and Pe{\~n}a, \{Paola R.\} and Fatemeh Alizadeh and Shashank Ahire and Heloisa Candello and Smit Desai and Justin Edwards and Yuan He and Darragh Higgins and Alberto Jovane and Matthias Kraus and Guy Laban and Rachel McDonnell and Jairo P{\'e}rez-Osorio and Tanja Schneeberger and Jaisie Sin and Tobias Thejll-Madsen and Nima Zargham and Cowan, \{Benjamin R.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 25th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2025 ; Conference date: 16-09-2025 Through 19-09-2025",
year = "2025",
month = sep,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1145/3742886.3758118",
language = "English",
series = "IVA 2025 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
editor = "Aike Horstmann and Tanja Schneeberger and Stefan Olafsson and Patrick Gwbhard",
booktitle = "IVA 2025 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents",
}