Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Understanding, Technology, and Application of Interaction"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of "Understanding, Technology, and Application of Interaction".
Recent improvement of computational capabilities and development of sensor and actuator have been providing various gateways to information media. Under the circumstances, researches on theory, design, modeling, engineering, application and evaluation of interaction among people, between human and things, and human and surroundings, are playing significant roles. Not only human interface in computer science, research on interaction has been expanding its research fields rapidly to involve related activities. In order to cover its wide extent and respond demands on diversities of its application, the editors are expecting submissions of research outcome on interaction from fundamental study to practical implementation.

(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit_en.do
*Note that this URL is for English papers only.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another page at https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit.do

(2) All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter time than usual (two months) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is June 20, 2014 June 30, 2014. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in April May, 2015. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in April, 2015.
Notice: Journal of Information Processing (JIP) will be published bimonthly from 2015 (Vol.23). A publication schedule of this special issue might be moved back by one month.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Mitsuru MINAKUCHI (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.)
Editorial Board: Asako KIMURA (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Atsuo YOSHITAKA (JAIST)
Editorial Committee: Junichi AKITA (Kanazawa Univ.), Yuji AYATSUKA (Information Services International-Dentsu), Kouichiro ETO (AIST), Kaori FUJINAMI (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Masataka GOTO (AIST), Hiroshi HOSOBE (Hosei Univ.), Tomoo INOUE (Univ. of Tsukuba), Naoki KATO (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.), Yasuyuki KONO (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Motoki MIURA (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Kazushi MUKAIYAMA (Future Univ.-Hakodate), Takeshi NAEMURA (The Univ. of Tokyo), Hideyuki NAKANISHI (Osaka Univ.), Masayuki OKAMOTO (Toshiba), Tetsuo ONO (Hokkaido Univ.), Daisuke SAKAMOTO (The Univ. of Tokyo), Buntaro SHIZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Kenji SUZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Tsutomu TERADA (Kobe Univ.)