TiiS 2010 - ACM TiiS: Special Issue on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction

Subject: ACM TiiS: Special Issue on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
on EYE GAZE IN INTELLIGENT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION

Main submission deadline: December 15th, 2010

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html

AIMS AND SCOPE

Partly because of the increasing availability of nonintrusive
and high-performance eye tracking devices, recent years have seen
a growing interest in incorporating human eye gaze in intelligent
user interfaces. Eye gaze has been used as a pointing mechanism
in direct manipulation interfaces, for example, to assist users
with "locked-in syndrome". It has also been used as a reflection
of information needs in web search and as a basis for tailoring
information presentation. Detection of joint attention as
indicated by eye gaze has been used to facilitate
computer-supported human-human communication. In conversational
interfaces, eye gaze has been used to improve language
understanding and intention recognition. On the output side, eye
gaze has been incorporated into the multimodal behavior of
embodied conversational agents. Recent work on human-robot
interaction has explored eye gaze in incremental language
processing, visual scene processing, and conversation engagement
and grounding.

This special issue will report on state-of-the-art
computational models, systems, and studies that concern eye gaze
in intelligent and natural human-machine communication. The
nonexhaustive list of topics below indicates the range of
appropriate topics; in case of doubt, please contact the guest
editors.

Papers that focus mainly on eye tracking hardware and software
as such will be relevant (only) if they make it clear how the
advances reported open up new possibilities for the use of eye
gaze in at least one of the ways listed above.

TOPICS

- Empirical studies of eye gaze in human-human communication that

provide new insight into the role of eye gaze and suggest

implications for the use of eye gaze in intelligent systems.

Examples include new empirical findings concerning eye gaze in

human language processing, in human-vision processing, and in

conversation management.

- Algorithms and systems that incorporate eye gaze for

human-computer interaction and human-robot

interaction. Examples include gaze-based feedback to

information systems; gaze-based attention modeling; exploiting

gaze in automated language processing; and controlling the gaze

behavior of embodied conversational agents or robots to enable

grounding, turn-taking, and engagement.

- Applications that demonstrate the value of incorporating eye

gaze in practical systems to enable intelligent human-machine

communication.

GUEST EDITORS

- Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany

(contact: andre[at]informatik[dot]uni-augsburg.de)
- Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

- By December 15th, 2010: Submission of manuscripts
- By March 23rd, 2011: Notification about decisions on initial

submissions
- By June 23rd, 2011: Submission of revised manuscripts
- By August 25th, 2011: Notification about decisions on revised

manuscripts
- By September 15th, 2011: Submission of manuscripts with final

minor changes
- Starting October, 2011: Publication of the special issue on the

TiiS website and subsequently in the ACM Digital Library and as

a printed issue

HOW TO SUBMIT

Manuscripts will be submitted via the ScholarOne Manuscripts site
of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
(TiiS). All necessary information will be found in the
instructions for authors at tiis.acm.org.

ABOUT ACM TiiS

TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a new ACM journal for
research concerning interactive systems that make use of some
form of machine intelligence. TiiS's editorial workflow and
infrastructure include innovations designed to ensure journal
quality at conference speed. For detailed information, see
tiis.acm.org.