[humaine news] Towards a journal for affective/emotion-oriented computing

[Roderick Cowie]

Dear all,
              The HUMAINE Association has been trying to establish a journal that will serve the whole Affective/Emotion oriented computing community. A team led by Jon Gratch has made good progress, and negotiations with the IEEE computer society are well advanced. The intended scope is below. For the next stage, we need input from interested individuals.

One of the IEEE's tests is to establish that there is widespread interest and intention to publish within the proposed journal. Hence, we have been asked to send out this call for "dummy" abstracts of papers that people would submit to such a journal. It is important for us to receive a high number of abstracts to demonstrate the high impact to the potential publisher (IEEE).

If you would like to move the process forward, please help us by providing 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. If you know people who might be interested, but are not in the HUMAINE Association, do pass the invitation on.

Please send your abstracts to the following address: journal at emotion-research.net<mailto:journal at emotion-research.net>

Thank you!

Roddy Cowie
President / team member

 Proposed 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
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