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	  	CALL FOR PAPERS

  USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION 
(an International Journal published by Kluwer)

		Special Issue on
"User Modeling and Adaptation in Affective Computing"

BACKGROUND

Adaptivity in human-computer interaction has been focused on the knowledge,
plans, interests, and preferences of the user and has not yet considered
extra-rational factors such as the user's attitude, personality or
emotional state. Recent research findings prove, however, that humans not
only have affective disposition towards machines (like trust or
irritation), but also tend to assign personalities to interfaces, and that
the usability of interfaces is affected from the compatibility between
their personality and the user's personality.  In addition, it appears that
interfaces may better serve the user if they recognize the user's changing
attitudes (such as doubt, uncertainty or cognitive workload) and respond
appropriately. This happens even when interfaces are based on traditional
techniques like graphics or natural language; in these interfaces, and even
more in the future world of agent interfaces, it is therefore reasonable to
assume that adaptivity to the user should extend beyond considering
rational aspects of the mental state, to go towards a friendly but also
warm and empathic interaction.

In organising this Special Issue, we wish to collect substantiated theories
about ways in which attitudes, personality and emotions may affect
Human-Computer Interaction and experiences on how these theories have been
applied to various aspects of User-Adapted Interaction, from user modeling
to natural language -text or speech- generation, nonverbal communication,
plan recognition, Animated Agents' behaviour and others.

OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

Papers presenting original contributions pertinent to the mentioned subject
area are sought for this special issue. The following is a (non exhaustive)
list of the topics of potential interest:
· Which user attitude, personality, and emotional factors may affect
Human-Computer Interaction, and how? (theoretical foundations and results
of empirical studies);
· Which personality can be attributed to existing interfaces?
· What user attitudes may be modelled, at the present state of knowledge?
· How can attitudinal, emotional, and personality factors be recognized?
· How can the interface display an attitude, express a personality or
demonstrate emotions and when is it appropriate to do so? Some examples:
in the graphics employed, in the language employed in messages and in
'story telling', in the level of help provided and in the Animated Agent's
behaviour.
· How should the interface or the messages they send to the user be
dynamically adapted to the user's attitudes, personality, and emotional
state? How can the environment influence attitudes and emotions (for
instance, at work or in art, entertainment and leisure)?

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the guest editor (Fiorella de
Rosis, email: [log in to unmask]) to communicate their intent to submit an
article and to discuss suitability of their topics to the special issue. If
possible, they should submit a tentative title and short abstract (which
can be altered for the actual submission) to enable formation of a panel of
appropriate reviewers.

Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI submission
instructions which are obtainable from the Web site:
http://umuai.informatik.uni-essen-de/

Electronic submissions are encouraged, although hard-copy submissions are
acceptable.  Each submission should note that it is intended for the
special issue on Affective Computing.  UMUAI is an archival journal that
publishes mature and substantiated research results on the (dynamic)
adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a
model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in
UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of
work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long as
what they write is important).

REVIEW PROCESS:

Papers submitted to the special issue are subject to the normal reviewing
process of the journal; they will be reviewed by the guest editor and by
two established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for
the special issue.  Barring unforeseen problems, authors can expect to be
notifed regarding the review results within two months of submission.

IMPORTANT DATES:
    
Notification of Intent to Submit: 	as soon as possible
Deadline Date for Submissions:	July 1, 2000		
Notification of Acceptance:	Sept 1, 2000		

Please address any questions to the guest editor:

    Fiorella de Rosis
    Department of Informatics
    University of Bari
    Via Orabona 4
    70126 BARI, Italy
    http://aos2.uniba.it:8080/IntInt.html
    Phone: (39080) 5443282
    Email: [log in to unmask]

This Call, with updatings on the status of the special issue, is also
available at:
http://aos2.uniba.it:8080/SI-UMUAI.html

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