Springer book cfp: Affect and Emotion in HCI

You are cordially invited to submit articles for an upcoming book on affect and emotion in HCI, which Springer will publish in the LNCS Hot Topics series.


Motivation
It's now ten years since the first publication of Rosalind Picard's book on Affective Computing. Since then, research in affect and emotion in HCI has evolved from an eccentric hobby of some visionary scientists to an accepted discipline within HCI research.
The field has developed a body of work that requires some aggregation and reflection, and is poised to make some potentially dramatic advances. The aim of this book is to provide a summary of the field and then present the latest research results and technology developments, and of the visions, hopes, and concerns related to this novel technology.


Scope of the book
To give a balanced report with as wide a spectrum as possible, we solicit contributions from the following fields:

1) Theoretical foundations
Models and representations of emotions, from an HCI perspective;
Ethical and legal issues.

2) Emotion and affect as input
Sensor systems, multimodal sensor networks, and sensor fusion;
Data analysis.

3) Emotion and affect as output
Desktop applications and agents;
Web-based services and applications;
Presence and smart environments;
Mobile applications;
Robots.

4) User experience studies and usability.

5) Community
Reports on Networks of Excellence,
National and international research programmes;
Standardisation efforts.

The listed topics are non-exclusive, please feel free to send in contributions not listed here, or contact the editors for input on your suggestions.
Please note that this book will focus on emotion/affect aspects in HCI only, so contributions on general aspects of emotion theory, sensor systems or user interface design are discouraged.


Important dates
June 25 2007 submission of articles
August 07 2007 notification of acceptance
Sept 09 2007 camera-ready papers due
Oct 31 2007 online publication
December 2007 publication of book

Note that the book will be published online by 31st October 2007.

Submission
Electronic submissions will be accepted in either MS Word or latex format. Please provide a pdf version for the reviews. Articles must neither have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere.
All contributions will undergo a blind peer-review process. We therefore ask you to submit an anonymized version of your work.

We expect contributions to categories 1 through 4 to be 8–12 pages in length; category 5, community reports, 2–3 pages.

Initial submissions and the final camera-ready contributions must comply to Springer LNCS format. For templates and further instructions on formatting please go to:
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs

Please address any questions about paper submissions to Christian Peter and Russell Beale: cpeter at igd-r.fraunhofer.de, r.beale at cs.bham.ac.uk

Editors
Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK


Scientific committee
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
Nick Campbell, ATR, Japan
Lola Cañamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Pabini Gabriel-Petit, Spirit Softworks, US
Roland Göcke, Seeing Machines & Australian National University, Australia
Kristina Höök, KTH/SICS, Sweeden
Nicola Millard, British Telecom plc, UK
Ana Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Purtugal
Karina Oertel, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Marc Schröder, DFKI, Germany
Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
John Waterworth, Umeå University, Sweden
Ian Wilson, neon.AI, Japan