-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP ACM Journal TIIS, special issue on Interaction w/ Smart Objects (apologies for cross postings) Datum: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:22:43 +0200 Von: Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser max@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de An: Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser max@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de, Elke Halla elke@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

Dear Colleagues,

may I draw your attention to the CfP for a

special issue on INTERACTION WITH SMART OBJECTS

of the new ACM Journal

Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

The first issue of TIIS is now available for inspection.

The special issue editors would be pleased to receive

your submission (by November 30^th ).

The CfP is attached, the Web version can be found at

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html#si-call-smart-objects

Best regards, Max Mühlhäuser

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Prof. Dr. Max Muehlhaeuser, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Informatics Dept.; Head: Telecooperation Lab; RBG Service Division

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Subject: ACM TiiS special issue on Interaction with Smart Objects

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

on INTERACTION WITH SMART OBJECTS

Main submission deadline: November 30th, 2011

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html

AIMS AND SCOPE

"Smart objects" refers to the rapidly growing trend of

introducing computing capabilities into everyday objects and

places. Well-known examples range from smart kitchen appliances

and objects (smart coffee machines, smart knives and cutting

boards, ...) to smart meeting rooms and even city-wide

infrastructures. Smart objects are mostly fully functional on

their own, but value is added by capabilities for communication

and distributed reasoning.

While a lot of research has focused on the many technical

challenges involved in implementing smart objects, far less

research has been conducted on the question of how interaction of

users with these objects can be improved, either by leveraging

the intelligence in the objects or by other means. Smart objects

raise unique challenges and opportunities for designing

interaction with intelligent systems: coping with the mostly

limited interaction capabilities, exploiting context information

to provide more natural interaction, helping the user to

understand the behavior and capabilities of the objects ....

This special issue will publish papers that address these issues

from a variety of perspectives. The dimensions listed below

indicate the range of work that is relevant to the special

issue. In case of doubt about the relevance of your topic, please

contact the guest editors.

TOPIC DIMENSIONS

Paradigms for Interaction With Smart Objects

- Multimodal interaction

- Adaptive interaction

- Context-awareness

- Embodied and tangible interaction

- Interacting with ensembles of smart objects

- ...

Models for Human / Smart Object Interaction

- Conceptual models of interaction with smart objects

- Relevant psychological models

- Design principles and guidelines

- ...

Intelligibility of Smart Objects

- Self-explanatory smart objects

- Natural means for controlling smart objects

- Intelligibility of smart object ensembles and the Internet of

Things

- ...

Empirical Studies of Human / Smart Object Interaction

- User studies with general implications

- Novel evaluation techniques

- ...

SPECIAL ISSUE ASSOCIATE EDITORS

- Max Muehlhaeuser, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

(contact: info[at]smart-objects[dot]org)

- Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Expertise Centre for Digital

Media (EDM)

- Oliver Brdiczka, PARC

- Daniel Schreiber, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

- Melanie Hartmann, AGT Group (R&D) GmbH

IMPORTANT DATES

- By November 30th, 2011: Submission of manuscripts

- By March 14th, 2012: Notification about decisions on initial

submissions

- By June 12th, 2012: Submission of revised manuscripts

- By August 13th, 2012: Notification about decisions on revised

manuscripts

- By September 12th, 2012: Submission of manuscripts with final

minor changes

- Starting October, 2012: Publication of the special issue on the

TiiS website, in the ACM Digital Library, and (shortly

afterward) as a printed issue

(Note: A previously announced midsummer submission deadline

turned out to be inconvenient for most interested authors.)

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please see the instructions for authors on the TiiS website

(tiis.acm.org).

ABOUT ACM TiiS

TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a recently founded ACM

journal for research about intelligent systems that people

interact with. The journal's procedures and infrastructure have

been designed to combine the traditional quality and depth of ACM

journals with the efficiency and predictability of the best-run

conferences. Information on the contents of the inaugural issue is

available on the journal's website.