DESCRIPTION:

Computational methods for interpreting complex behavioral patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with others are receiving more interest. Emotion is an important aspect of human behavior that is more and more taken into account in these methods. Analysis of affect for understanding human behavior is a challenging problem where many issues are still open, including the joint modeling of behavioral cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidences of human behavior, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behavior, and the important role of dynamics.

We solicit contributions to a special section on IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing that focuses on the problems of modeling and analyzing human affective behavior, with particular attention to pattern recognition approaches that involve multiple modalities and those that model the actual dynamics of behavior.


IMPORTANT DATES:

October 1, 2010: Submission of full paper
November 7, 2010: First round of reviews
December 7, 2010: Submission of revised papers
December 30, 2010: Second round of reviews
January 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance

The tentative publication date is mid-February 2011.


EDITOR IN CHIEF:
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California

GUEST EDITORS:
Albert Ali Salah, University of Amsterdam
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento
Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow

To submit a paper, go to
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taffc-cs
and select "Affect Based Human Behavior Understanding" special issue.

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is published in cooperation with: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

For more information contact:

Dr. Albert Ali Salah
Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science,
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 107, 1098XG
The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0) 20 525 7550
home: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~asalah/
e-mail: a.a.salah@uva.nl