ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems / Special issue on on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments

Special Issue Details

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.

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Call for Papers

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

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
March 18th, 2011: Notification about decisions on initial submissions
June 17th, 2011: Submission of revised manuscripts
September 2nd, 2011: Notification about decisions on revised manuscripts
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). The web address and all other necessary information will be found in the instructions for authors on the TiiS website.

ABOUT ACM TIIS

TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a new ACM journal whose goal is to encourage and disseminate research that combines methods and ideas from artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI). For detailed information about all aspects of the journal, please see its website (tiis.acm.org).

Deadline: 06 December 2010

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