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.
The special issue invites Dr. Homei MIYASHITA from Meiji University as the guest editor.

(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 20, 2012 June 27, 2012.
*Submission deadline has been extended.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in April, 2013. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in April, 2013.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Homei MIYASHITA (Meiji Univ.)
Editorial Board: Tsutomu TERADA (Kobe Univ.), Kenji SUZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Editorial Committee: Jun-ichi AKITA (Kanazawa Univ.), Yuji AYATSUKA (Toyota IT Center), Tomoo INOUE (Univ. of Tsukuba), Koichiro ETO (AIST), Masayuki OKAMOTO (Toshiba Corp.), Tetsuo ONO (Hokkaido Univ.), Naoki KATO (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.), Yasuyuki KONO (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Yoshifumi KITAMURA (Tohoku Univ.), Masataka GOTO (AIST), Makoto SATO (Toshiba Corp.), Buntaro SHIZUKI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Takeshi NAEMURA (Univ. of Tokyo), Hideyuki NAKANISHI (Osaka Univ.), Masaaki FUKUMOTO (NTT DOCOMO), Kaori FUJINAMI (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Hiroshi HOSOBE (NII), Motoki MIURA (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Mitsuru MINAKUCHI (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Kazushi MUKAIYAMA (Future Univ.-Hakodate)