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 19, 2015 June 30, 2015. *Deadline extended
(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in May, 2016. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in April, 2016.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Asako KIMURA (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Editorial Board: Koji TSUKADA (Future Univ. Hakodate), Atsuo YOSHITAKA (JAIST)
Editorial Committee: Buntarou SHIZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Daisuke SAKAMOTO (Univ. of Tokyo), Hideyuki NAKANISHI (Osaka Univ.), Hiroshi HOSOBE (Hosei Univ.), Itaru KURAMOTO (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Jun REKIMOTO (Univ. of Tokyo/ Sony CSL), Junichi AKITA (Kanazawa Univ.), Kenji SUZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Kentaro FUKUCHI (Meiji Univ./ JST), Masaaki FUKUMOTO (Microsoft Research), Masataka GOTO (AIST), Mitsuru MINAKUCHI (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Motoki MIURA (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Satoshi ICHIMURA (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.), Takayuki ITO (Ochanomizu Univ.), Tomoo INOUE (Univ. of Tsukuba), Tsutomu TERADA (Kobe Univ.), Yasuyuki KONO (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Yasuyuki SUMI (Future Univ. Hakodate), Yoshinari TAKEKAWA (Future Univ. Hakodate), Yoshinori HIJIKATA (Osaka Univ.), Yuichi ITO (Osaka Univ.) et al.