CASAXR 2026

As our world becomes increasingly digitized, the concept of agents, either physical including robots
and systems, or virtual (either human or not), is increasingly prevalent. The development of agents
imposes reconsidering interaction with such entities, and more specifically social interactions one
may experience.
This workshop on social interactions with agents, hosted by the CASAXR 2026 conference, proposes
researchers to find valuable resources and develop interdisciplinary collaborations related to the
topic of social interactions with agents, either physical or virtual or hybrid. It aims to promote
collaborations not only between computer scientists and graphists, but also between other
disciplines involved in social interactions, including communication and psychology, and thus
contribute to next-generation interaction building new social relationships.
This workshop invites researchers to submit:

1) research papers that focus on social interaction with agents (either physical, virtual or hybrid),

2) technical papers aimed towards unlocking technical and technological issues constraining social interactions with agents,

3) position papers describing ethics, early-stage concepts, and preliminary ideas for novel social interactions.

Accepted papers will appear in a Springer CASAXR26 book. A few will be invited to publish in the
CAVW journal published by Wiley.

The submissions shall follow the guidelines provided by the CASAXR conference. Applications of virtual humans and agents or robots for Cultural Heritage, Climate change,  or any other real-world simulation where virtual entities or robots are acting are welcome.  More generally, the workshop accepts papers in the following topics: 

  • Populated heritage sites
  • Populated extended reality
  • social robotics 
  • virtual humans 
  • virtual agents
  • intelligent agents (either physical or virtual)
  • modeling and animating digital/virtual twins
  • affective computing
  • ethics on agents, social robots and Virtual Humans
  • Behavioural animation or simulation
  • human-agent / agent-agent communication
  • Avatars and Metaverse 

Organizers:

  • Prof. Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology (France)
  • Prof. Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
  • Prof. Soraia Raupp Musse, PUCRS – Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
  • Prof. Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland