Call for Papers IEEE Computer Magazine
Special Issue on Human-centered Computing

Guest Editors
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Alejandro Jaimes, FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Nicu Sebe, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP, Switzerland
Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 
Description
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Computing is at one of its most exciting moments in history, playing 
an essential role in supporting many important human activities. The 
explosion in the availability of information in various media forms and 
through multiple sensors and devices means, on one hand, that the amount 
of data we can collect will continue to increase dramatically, and on 
the other hand that we need to develop new paradigms to search, organize, 
and integrate such information to support human endeavors: learning, 
working, communicating, caretaking, and playing, among others. 

Human-centered Computing (HCC) is an emerging field that aims at bridging 
the existing gaps between the various disciplines involved with the design 
and implementation of computing systems that support people^Òs activities. 
HCC aims at tighly integrating human sciences - social, cognitive, etc. - 
and computer science - HCI, signal processing, machine learning, etc. - 
for the design of computing systems with a human focus from beginning to 
end, a focus that considers the personal, social, and cultural contexts 
in which such systems are deployed. 

Beyond being a meeting place for existing disciplines, HCC also aims at 
radically changing computing with new methodologies to design and build 
systems that support and enrich people^Òs lives. IEEE Computer solicits 
submissions that introduce key concepts, discuss theoretical frameworks 
and technical approaches, challenges, research opportunities, and open 
issues in areas of interest in human-centered computing, including the 
following topics:

- Multimodal interaction (body, gaze, gesture, audio, and speech)  
  for the human-computer interaction and the computer-in-the-human 
  interaction loops;
- Image databases, indexing, and retrieval: content, users, and context 
  modeling;
- Experiential, affective, cultural, and social issues in computing;
- Machine learning with a human-in-the loop;
- Interactive search and agent interfaces;
- Multimedia collaboration and ubiquitous computing;
- User, context, and task modeling; 
- Social dynamics modeling and socially aware systems.
- Ethnocomputing and diversity in computing

Submission
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Submissions should be limited to 6,000 words (eight pages in print) 
with each graphic element (figures, graphs, tables) counting as 300 words. 
Detailed author guidelines and submission instructions are available at 
www.computer.org/portal/pages/computer/mc/author.html. 

The manuscripts should be submitted via Manuscript Central at 
http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
 
Deadlines
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Manuscript submission: October 1, 2006
Accept/reject notification: December 15, 2006
Publication date: April, 2007

For further information please contact the guest editors: 
Alejandro Jaimes (ajaimes_at_ee.columbia.edu)
Nicu Sebe (nicu_at_science.uva.nl).
Daniel Gatica-Perez (gatica_at_idiap.ch)
Thomas Huamg (huang_at_ifp.uiuc.edu)