[Eeglablist] Call for Papers - Special Issue on Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCI)

Guillaume Chanel Guillaume.Chanel at unige.ch
Tue Oct 1 00:40:25 PDT 2013


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Call for Papers - Special Issue on Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCI)
Brain-Computer Interfaces Journal
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You are cordially invited to make a contribution to a special issue of Brain-Computer Interfaces (http://tinyurl.com/BCIjournal), entitled "Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces". The special issue is a follow-up to the successful 3rd aBCI workshop held at the ACII conference in Geneva, in September 2013 (http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/abci2013). But, this Call is open for every researcher working in the field of affective brain-computer interfacing and interested to contribute.

Affective BCI aims at the detection of affective states, such as emotions or moods, from neuro-physiological signals. Such systems, allowing users to control computer games by their emotions, support relaxation training, or trigger your alarm clock during a shallow sleep stage have been proposed, implemented, and sold. Moreover, the affordable hardware and software tools also encouraged artists to play with the idea of a direct access to people's most private information: their affective and cognitive states. From these explorations followed a number of interesting installations, suggesting novel ways of human-computer as well as human-human interaction: encouraging affective self-reflection, the synchronization and empathizing between or the competition of different minds, and the collaborative creation and manipulation of digital multimodal content.

This special issue on aBCI explores the current possibilities and limitations of using neuro-physiological signals as a modality for the recognition of affective/cognitive states, and looks at visions for the use of this information about the user state in applications for domains like health, arts, and entertainment. We are seeking theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers dealing with different topics that include, but are not limited to:
- novel methods and protocols for affective/cognitive state induction and data collection for aBCI, addressing challenges such as generalization/specificity of mental state classification;
- the detection of affective/cognitive states via neurophysiological activity;
- the incorporation of additional modalities, such as physiological sensors, video, or audio, to support the aBCI calibration and validation;
- innovative concepts for communication or adaptive interfaces using aBCI.

SCHEDULE FOR SUBMISSION
- Deadline for Full Paper Submission: November 22, 2013
- Notification of 1st review outcome: December 15, 2013
- First Revision Due: January 15, 2014
- Notification of 2nd review outcome:  February 01, 2014
- Camera-ready Papers due: February 15, 2014
- Expected publication: June 2014

Manuscripts should be submitted to abci at ewi.utwente.nl
Manuscripts should follow the journal's guidelines:  http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tbci

SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS
Authors are requested to inform the Special Issue Guest Editors about their intention to submit. Please direct any inquiries, including those about the suitability of your possible paper, to the Special-Issue Guest Editors via abci at ewi.utwente.nl :
- Brendan Allison, University of California San Diego, USA
- Guillaume Chanel, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
- Christian Mühl, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France
- Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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