<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Apologies for multiple postings</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">**********************************************************************************************************************************</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class=""><i class="">IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)</i></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Special Issue on "A sense of interaction in humans and robots: from visual perception to social cognition"</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems.html" class="">http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems.html</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Guest Editors</b> </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Alessandra Sciutti (<a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</span></a>)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Nicoletta Noceti (<a href="mailto:nicoletta.noceti@unige.it" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">nicoletta.noceti@unige.it</span></a>)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">**********************************************************************************************************************************</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Important Dates</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class=""><u class="">30 April 2017 - Deadline for title and abstract submission</u></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">30 June 2017 - Deadline for manuscript submission </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">15 September 2017 - Notification to authors</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">15 October 2017- Deadline for submission of revised manuscripts </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">15 November 2017 - Final decisions</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Winter 2017 - Special Issue Publication in IEEE TCDS</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Aim and Scope</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Since early infancy, the ability of humans at interacting with each other is substantially strengthened by vision, with several visual processes tuned to support prosocial behaviour. For instance, a natural predisposition to look at human faces or to detect biological motion is present at birth. More refined abilities - as the understanding and anticipation of others' actions and intentions- progressively develop with age, leading, in a few years, to a full capability of interaction based on mutual understanding, joint coordination and collaboration. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">A key challenge of robotics research nowadays is to provide artificial agents with similar advanced visual perception skills, with the ultimate goal of designing machines able to recognise and interpret both explicit and implicit communication cues embedded in human behaviours. These achievements pave the way for the large-scale use of Human-Robot Interaction applications on a variety of contexts, ranging from the design of personal robots, to physical, social and cognitive rehabilitation.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">This special issue is aimed at gathering contributions from different research communities, including Robotics, Computer Vision, Cognitive Science, Psychology and Neuroscience, to create a comprehensive perspective on the topic of social interaction in humans and robots, with a specific reference to the role of human and machine perceptual abilities in supporting interactive skills. Contributions may focus on human visual perception for interaction on the one hand, and on the implementation of machine vision methods aimed at improving human-human or human-machine interaction on the other. This multidisciplinary effort is expected to bring innovations in fields as social robotics and human- machine interaction, but also in domains like developmental psychology and cognitive rehabilitation.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Themes</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Understanding how efficient and seamless collaborations can be achieved among human partners and which are the explicit and implicit cues intuitively adopted in human cooperation would provide key insights on how to model a similar ability in the future interactive machines.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">This special issue wants to address these relevant questions both from the side of the study of human perception for interaction and from the implementation perspective, considering new algorithms and modelling efforts brought forward to improve current robotics.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Topics include (but are not limited to) the following</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Computational Models of Visual Perception for Interaction </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Perception of Intentions and Actions </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vision for Robotics and Artificial intelligence in Social Contexts </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Neuroscientific bases of Interaction </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Development of Social Cognition in Humans </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Social Signals Recognition and Analysis </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Human-Robot Interaction </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Emotion Recognition for Interaction </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Machine Learning for Visual Perception</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b class="">Submission</b>:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Manuscripts should be prepared according to the "Information for Authors" of the journal found at:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/131-ieee-transactions-on-autonomous-mental-development-information-for-authors.html" class="">http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/131-ieee-transactions-on-autonomous-mental-development-information-for-authors.html</a></span><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> and submissions should be made through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center at <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee</span></a> selecting the category "SI: Human Robot Interaction".</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Prospective authors are kindly asked to contact the guest editors by sending an e-mail to <a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</span></a> , and <a href="mailto:nicoletta.noceti@unige.it" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">nicoletta.noceti@unige.it</span></a> providing a tentative title and abstract of the contribution by 30 April, 2017.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">**********************************************************************************************************************************</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; 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<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dr. Nicoletta Noceti<br class="">DIBRIS - Dept. of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova<br class="">via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova-IT<br class=""><br class="">Room 226<br class="">Tel. +39 010 3536626<br class="">Fax +39 010 3536699<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nicolettanoceti/" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/nicolettanoceti/</a><br class="">http:///www.slipguru.unige.it<br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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