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SOCIALLY INTELLIGENT AGENTS - THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
Part A: Systems and Humans
Guest Editor: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqkd/IEEESMC.html
Introduction:
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Today, more and more application areas require systems that are able to
interact with humans. Socially Intelligent Agents are agent systems that
are able to connect and interface to humans, i.e. robotic or computational
systems that show aspects of human-style social intelligence. In recent
years the highly interdisciplinary area of Socially Intelligent Agents has
attracted a number of active researchers who model, design and analyse
agents (software or robotic) which behave socially. Such work is often
strongly inspired by studies of social intelligence in animals, in
particular forms of human social intelligence. Designing and engineering
such systems with the "human in the loop" (e.g. as designers, users,
observers, assistants, collaborators, competitors, customers, instructors
or friends) often requires new architectures, design and evaluation
methodologies. The special issue will address state-of-the-art of
engineering, methodological and design developments, and applications in
the field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA's).
Examples of topics of Interest:
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- Theories and models of social intelligence in animals and artifacts
with respect to building socially intelligent agent systems;
- Learning and adaptation in human-agent systems;
- Development of new interfaces, environments, means of communication
and interactive systems that connect agents with humans;
- Architectures and implementations of agent systems that show
aspects of human style intelligence; New design approaches and evaluation
methods for SIA's;
- Social agent systems that investigate anthropomorphism;
believability and degrees of agent complexity in design, implementation and
evaluation of agent systems;
- Social agent systems that empower humans, addressing the cognitive,
social and emotional needs of humans; SIA's which support human creativity
and imagination;
- Social agent technology which influences
attitudes/opinions/behaviour; issues of 'social relationships' between
human and agent e.g. helping, competition and cooperation, autonomy
and control, predictability, deception, manipulation, initiative,
delegation, responsibility, conflicts;
- Societies and organisations of agents that overlap with human society;
- Agents that facilitate and mediate interaction, communication and
cooperation among people; SIA's in living environments (e.g. at school, at
home, at work, on holiday, at meeting points);
- Agents that can assist and enable humans, e.g. in education,
rehabilitation and therapy applications; Social agents adapting to and
supporting cultural diversity; ; Ethical issues of socially intelligent
agent systems
Important Dates:
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15 December 2000: Deadline for Submission of Manuscripts
15 February 2000: Notification of Authors
15 April 2001: Final copies due
Submission of Manuscripts:
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Original, unpublished work is invited.
Please send five (5) hardcopies of your paper, complete with illustrations, to:
Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn (IEEE SMC)
Adaptive Systems Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield Herts AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
Electronic submissions are discouraged. If it is not possible to send
hardcopies, please contact [log in to unmask] Any questions
concerning the appropriateness of planned submissions or other queries may
be directed to the guest-editor at [log in to unmask]
Please visit the following Webpage for formatting guidelines:
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/ieee-smc/publications/transactions/information.html
For more information on the journal please consult:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/pub_preview/smca_toc.html
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Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn
Principal Lecturer (Research)
Adaptive Systems Research Group
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqcln/ASRG.html
The University of Hertfordshire, Department of Computer Science
College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom
URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqkd
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +44-1707-284-303 Tel: +44-1707-284-333
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