Special Issue on "Affective Modeling and Adaptation"

Special Issue Details

http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/people/fior_file/SI-UMUAI05.htm

Call for Papers

BACKGROUND:

Intelligent systems have been shown to increase their effectiveness by adapting to their individual users. In recent years, it has been recognized that affective factors can play an important role in this adaptation. Such factors include both long-term personality traits and shorter-term states such as dispositions, attitudes, interpersonal stances, moods, and emotions (K. Scherer, HUMAINE website). Research on modeling affect and on adapting to affective factors has matured considerably over the past several years, so that even designers of commercial products are now considering the inclusion of components that take affect into account.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Papers presenting original contributions pertinent to affective modeling and adaptation are sought for a special issue of the journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research” (UMUAI) published by Springer.
Both papers that address theoretical issues and application papers that present novel implemented systems are solicited.
Theoretical papers should present novel and evaluated techniques and formalisms, or empirical studies relevant to affective computing.
Application papers should describe an implemented and evaluated system that models affective factors or adapts its behavior based on such factors, and should clearly present the advances represented by the system.

Contributions are solicited in all areas of affective computing, with particular interest in the following areas:

recognition of affective states from user actions, language, speech, facial expressions, gestures, body posture, biosignals, or from a combination of various sources;

models of affective states and their integration with other components of the user model;

theories about the impact of affective states on user behavior and the implications of the theories regarding appropriate affective computing techniques;

systems that employ affective computing in applications such as automobile navigation, learning and education, call centers, health care, and advice-giving;

methods for evaluating affective models and systems.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI submission instructions which can be obtained from the following web site:
http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html
Electronic submissions are preferred. Each submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on Affective Modeling and Adaptation.
We recommend that papers not exceed 40 pages (including figures and references).
Authors should consult the guest editors of the issue if they feel that they need additional space.

Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors (Sandra Carberry and Fiorella de Rosis) as soon as possible of their intent to submit an article.
Sometime thereafter (but not later than a month prior to the submission deadline), they should submit a tentative title and short abstract (which can be altered for the actual submission) to enable the formation of a panel of appropriate reviewers.

REVIEW PROCESS:

Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for the special issue.
Barring unforeseen problems, authors can expect to be notified regarding the review results within 2-3 months of submission.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Notification of Intent to Submit: May 1, 2006, but preferably much sooner

Deadline Date for Submissions: 30 June 2006

Please address any questions to the guest editors:

Sandra Carberry
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Delaware
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry
Email: carberry_at_cis.udel.edu

Fiorella de Rosis
Department of Informatics
University of Bari
http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/
Email: derosis_at_di.uniba.it

Deadline: 29 June 2006

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