Call for an Intended Journal of the HUMAINE Association

It is important for us to receive a high number of abstracts to demonstrate interest in such a periodical to the potential publisher (IEEE). If you would like to express your interest, please help us by provision of a short abstract of around 800-1000  characters abstract text, potential title and authors latest by 31.10.2008. Note that a large amount of submissions from diverse authors is required. Please send your abstracts to the following address: journal@emotion-research.net

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 Scope

 Sensing & Analysis

• Algorithms and features for the recognition of affective state from the face and body gestures
• Analysis of text and spoken language understanding for emotion recognition
• Analysis of prosody and voice quality of affective speech
• Recognition of auditory and visual affect bursts
• Recognition of affective state from central (e.g. fMRI, EEG) and peripheral (e.g. GSR) physiological measures
• New methods for multi-modal recognition of affective state
• Recognition of group emotion
• Methods of data collection with respect to psychological issues as mood induction and elicitation or technical methodology as motion capturing
• Tools and methods of annotation for provision of emotional corpora

 (Cyber)Psychology & Behavior

• Clarification of concepts related to 'affective computing' (e.g., emotion, mood, personality, attitude) in ways that facilitate their use in computing.
• Computational models of human emotion processes (e.g., decision-making models that account for the influence of emotion; predictive models of user emotional state)
• Ethical aspects of affective computing
• Studies on cross-cultural, group and cross-language differences in emotional expression
• Contributions to and proposition of standards and markup language for affective computing

 Behavior Generation & User Interaction

• Computational models of visual, acoustic and textual emotional expression for synthetic and robotic agents
• Models of verbal and nonverbal expression of various forms of affect that facilitate machine implementation
• Methods to adapt interaction with technology to the affective state of users
• Methods for influencing the emotional state of people during human-computer interaction
• New methods for defining and evaluating the usability of affective systems and the role of affect in usability
• Methods of emotional profiling and adaptation in mid- to long-term interaction
• Application of affective computing including education, health care, entertainment, customer service, design, vehicle operation, social agents/robotics, affective ambient intelligence, customer experience measurement, multimedia retrieval, surveillance systems, biometrics, music retrieval and generation