Intelligent Virtual Agents 8th International Conference Iva 2008 Tokyo

Welcome To The Proceedings Of The 8th International Conference On Intelligent Virtual Agents, Which Was Held On September 1-3, 2008 In Tokyo, Japan. - Telligent Virtual Agents (ivas) Are Autonomous, Graphically Embodied Agents In A Virtual Environment That Are Able To Interact Intelligently With Human Users, Otherivas,andtheirenvironment. Theivaconferenceseriesisthemajorannual Meeting Of The Intelligent Virtual Agents Community, Attracting Interdisciplinary Minded Researchers And Practitioners From Embodied Cognitive Modeling, Art- Cial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Animation, Virtual Worlds, Games, Natural Language Processing, And Human-computer Interaction.