Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)

Multiple Sensorial (MulSeMedia) Multi-modal Media: Advances and Applications

Multimedia applications have primarily engaged two of the human senses – sight and hearing. With recent advances in computational technology, however it is possible to develop applications that also consider, integrate and synchronize inputs across all senses, including tactile, olfaction, and gustatory. This integration of multiple senses leads to a paradigm shift towards a new mulsemedia (multiple sensorial media) experience, aligning rich data from multiple human senses. Mulsemedia brings with itself new and exciting challenges and opportunities in research, industry, commerce, and academia. This special issue solicits contributions dealing with mulsemedia in all of these areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Context-aware Mulsemedia
Metrics for Mulsemedia
Capture and synchronization of Mulsemedia
Mulsemedia devices
Mulsemedia in distributed environments
Mulsemedia integration
Mulsemedia user studies
Multi-modal mulsemedia interaction
Mulsemedia and virtual reality
Quality of service and Mulsemedia
Quality of experience and Mulsemedia
Tactile/haptic interaction
User modelling and Mulsemedia
Mulsemedia and e-learning
Mulsemedia and e-commerce
Mulsemedia Standards
Mulsemedia applications (e.g. e-commerce, e- learning, e-health, etc)
Emotional response (e.g. EEG) of Mulsemedia
Mulsemedia sensor research
Mulsemedia databases

Important Dates
Paper Submission: 18/11/2013
First Decision: 13/01/2014
Paper Revision Submission: 03/03/2014
Second Decision: 28/04/2014
Accepted Papers Due: 12/05/2014

Guest Editors
George Ghinea (Brunel University, UK)
Stephen Gulliver (University of Reading, UK)
Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria)
Weisi Lin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prospective contributors are welcome to contact the guest editors at guesteditors2014@kom.tu- darmstadt.de

Submission Procedure
All submission guidelines of TOMCCAP, such as formatting, page limits and extensions of previously-submitted conference papers, must be adhered to. Please see the Authors Guide section of the TOMCCAP website for more details (http://tomccap.acm.org). To submit please follow these instructions:
Submit your paper through TOMCCAP’s online system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tomccap. When submitting please use the Manuscript Type ‘Special Issue: MulSeMedia’ in the ManuscriptCentral system.
In your cover letter, include the information “Special Issue on Mulsemedia” and, if submitting an extended version of a conference paper, explain how the new submission is different and extends previously published work.
After you submit your paper, the system will assign a manuscript number to it. Please email this number to guesteditors2014@kom.tu-darmstadt.de together with the title of your paper.