TIIS 2010 - ACM TiiS special issue on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments

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Deadline: December 06, 2010 | Date: December 06, 2010

Venue/Country: Call for Papers, Afghanistan

Updated: 2010-09-13 13:47:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

on AFFECTIVE INTERACTION IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Main submission deadline: December 6th, 2010

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html

AIMS AND SCOPE

A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, and

human-centered multimodal interfaces is the ability to infer the

affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate,

timely output during sustained social interactions.

Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in

maintaining the interaction or providing suitable empathic

responses through the display of facial expressions, gesture, or

generation of speech.

This special issue will cover computational techniques for the

recognition and interpretation of human multimodal verbal and

nonverbal behavior, models of mentalizing and empathizing for

interaction, and multimedia techniques for the synthesis of

believable social behavior supporting human-agent and human-robot

interaction.

A key aim of the special issue is the identification and

investigation of important open issues in real-time, affect-aware

applications "in the wild" and especially in embodied

interaction, i.e., with robots and embodied conversational

agents. We encourage the submission of studies that provide new

insights into the use of multimodal and multimedia techniques for

enabling interaction between humans, robots, and virtual agents

in naturalistic settings.

The special issue especially welcomes submission of

contributions that focus on innovative intelligent technology and

the way it is successfully integrated into the interaction cycle

between users and virtual agents and robots, in line with the

binocular view encouraged by TiiS.

Submissions can come from a variety of research areas,

including naturalistic human-robot and human-computer interaction

and multimedia human-computer interaction. The categories below

cover most of the relevant topics, but they are not exhaustive.

In case of doubt about the relevance of your topic, please

contact the guest editors.

TOPICS

Focus on Recognition:

Multimodal human affect and social behavior recognition,

including:

- Facial expressions

- Body language

- Speech

- Physiological signals

- Other modalities

- Cognitive and affective "mentalizing"

- Recognition of human behavior for implicit tagging

Focus on Generation:

Multimedia expression generation in robots and virtual agents,

including:

- Gaze

- Gestures

- Facial expressions

- Speech

- Other modalities

Focus on Interaction:

- Emotion and cognitive state representation

- Perception-action loops in agents/robots

- Visual attention / user engagement with robots and embodied

conversational agents

- Social context-awareness and adaptation

- Applications of methods and results in the above areas to

interactive games, robots, and virtual agents

Databases:

- Multimodal corpora for training recognition systems

- Multimodal corpora for modeling the behavior of agents and

robots

GUEST EDITORS

- Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK

(contact: ginevra[at]dcs[dot]qmul[dot]ac[dot]uk)

- Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens,

Greece

- Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France

- Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA

- Christopher Peters, Coventry University, UK

- Laurel Riek, University of Cambridge, UK

IMPORTANT DATES

- December 6th, 2010: Submission of manuscripts

- By March 18th, 2011: Notification about decisions on initial

submissions

- By June 17th, 2011: Submission of revised manuscripts

- By September 2nd, 2011: Notification about decisions on revised

manuscripts

- By September 23rd, 2011: Submission of manuscripts with final

minor changes

- October, 2011: Publication of the special issue on the TiiS

website, in the ACM Digital Library, and (shortly afterward) as a

printed issue

HOW TO SUBMIT

Manuscripts will be submitted via the ScholarOne Manuscripts site

of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

(TiiS). All necessary information will be found in the

instructions for authors at tiis.acm.org.

ABOUT ACM TiiS

TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a new ACM journal for

research concerning interactive systems that make use of some

form of machine intelligence. TiiS's editorial workflow and

infrastructure include innovations designed to ensure journal

quality at conference speed. For detailed information, see

tiis.acm.org.