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Special
Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
to
be published in the journal
Multimedia
Tools and Applications
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Overview:
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This special
issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas
at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence.
The
special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review
process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below.
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Topics
of Interest
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Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
Frontiers
in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models
· HCI
design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems
· Multimodal
interaction technologies
· Collaborative
and social computing and HCI
· Accessibility
and inclusive multimedia
Frontiers
of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Design
& arts and multimedia-based HCI
· Humanities
and multimedia-based HCI
· Learning,
education and multimedia-based HCI
· Values,
ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers
of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Game-
and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems
· Augmented,
virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Smart
things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI
· Tangible
design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI
· Beyond
cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers
of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Human-in-the-loop
machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Agent-based
systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI
· Data
or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI
· Natural
language processing and multimedia-based HCI
· Recommendation,
personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI
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Guest
Editors:
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Dr. Alessandra
Melonio (Lead Guest Editor)
Faculty
of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dr. Maria
De Marsico
Department
of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dr. Cristina
Gena
Department
of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy
Email: cristina.gena@unito.it
Dr. Rosella
Gennari
Faculty
of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: gennari@inf.unibz.it
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Important
dates/Tentative Schedule:
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Submission
deadline: November 30, 2021
Final
manuscript due: August 30, 2022
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Submission
Guidelines
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Authors
should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website.
Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx and
select “SI
1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI”
when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance
of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal
or conference at any time during the review process.
Please
note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at
the conference. It
is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative
comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors
must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The
extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.