Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Entertainment Computing"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Entertainment Computing”.
We warmly invite original papers in all areas of entertainment computing and design including (but not limited to):
* Interactive Design for Entertainment,
* Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection,
* Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality,
* Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces,
* Edutainment Technologies,
* Novel and Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware Devices,
* Social and Human Factors of Entertainment,
* Interactive Digital Storytelling, and Interactive Tele-Vision,
* Mobile Entertainment,
* Narrative Environments and Intelligent Medias,
* Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing,
* Robots and Cyber Pets,
* Self Reflecting Entertainment,
* Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training,
* Sound, Music, Creative Environments.
The editorial committee carries out a special reviewing process of the special issue of “Entertainment Computing”. Four special editors are selected from top researchers of entertainment computing, and they review all submitted papers individually. In the case that one or several papers are recommended for the special issue by one of the special editors, the editorial committee decides on the acceptance of the paper with the recommendation of the special editor.

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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to JIP before July 31, 2017 are eligible for 30% discount in publication charge when accepted.
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(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

In the event you would like to make a submission, you must first create an account on the paper submission Web page. For detailed information, please refer to the manual available from the link “Submission Rules and Document Types” at the top of the submission page.

(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 December 21, 2016 January 11, 2017. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in November, 2017. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in November, 2017.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Daisuke SAKAMOTO (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Editorial Board: Shoichi HASEGAWA (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yoshinari TAKEGAWA (Future Univ. Hakodatate), Yuichi ITOH (Osaka Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Masataka IMURA (Osaka Univ.), Hiroyuki KAJIMOTO (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Itaru KURAMOTO (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Yuta SUGIURA (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Maki SUGIMOTO（Keio Univ.）, Tsutomu TERADA (Kobe Univ.), Masahiro TOYOURA (Yamanashi Univ.), Tetsuaki BABA (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Shigeyuki HIRAI (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Kentaro FUKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Mitsunori MATSUSHITA (Kansai Univ.), Mitsuru MINAKUCHI (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Tomoyasu NAKANO (AIST), Satoshi NAKAMURA (Meiji Univ.), Takuji NARUMI (The Univ. of Tokyo), Yohei YANASE（Unity Technologies Japan）