[alife] NEW Journal: Interaction Studies - Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems

[Kerstin Dautenhahn]

Interaction Studies:
Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Editors-in-Chief:

Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
Harold Gouzoules (Emory University, USA)

Aims and Scope:

The journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly 
interdisciplinary area of interaction studies in  biological and artificial 
systems. It intends to act as a medium for dialogues across the boundaries 
of academic disciplines for research into social behaviour and 
communication that has traditionally been presented in separate specialist 
journals.

Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and 
artificial systems involves important issues such as evolutionary, 
developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and 
communication; the embodied nature of interactions;  origins and 
characteristics of social and narrative intelligence; perception, action 
and communication in the context of dynamic and social environments; social 
learning, adaptation and imitation; investigating social behaviour in 
human-machine interactions; the nature of empathic understanding, behaviour 
and intention reading; minimal requirements and systems exhibiting social 
behaviour; the role of cultural factors in shaping social behaviour and 
communication in biological or artificial societies.  The journal welcomes 
papers that analyze social behaviour in humans and other animals as well as 
research into the design and synthesis of robotic, software, virtual and 
other artificial systems, including applications such as exploiting 
human-machine interactions for educational or therapeutic purposes. Papers 
can be experimental, computational, or theoretical studies and should 
highlight the contribution to knowledge of social behaviour and 
communication in biological and artificial systems.

Submissions are invited from researchers working in the natural, human and 
social sciences as well as those working in the sciences of the artificial. 
Fields of interest comprise, but are not limited to evolutionary biology, 
artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, psychology, cognitive 
neuroscience, computational neuroscience, ethology, social and biological 
anthropology, palaeontology, animal behaviour, linguistics.

Associate Editors:

Justine Cassell  (MIT Media Lab, USA)
Tetsuro Matsuzawa  (Kyoto University, Japan)
Robert W. Mitchell  (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
Yoshihiro Miyake  (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv  (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Jacqueline Nadel  (Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, France)
Irene Pepperberg (MIT and Brandeis University, USA)
Guilio Sandini  (University of Genova, Italy)
Guy Theraulaz  (CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France)
Michael Tomasello  (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 
Germany)
Tomio Watanabe (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)

Editorial Board Members:

Harold Bekkering (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Aude Billard (l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)
Paul Brna (University of Northumbria, UK)
Josep Call  (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Lola Canamero (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)
Yiannis Demiris  (Imperial College London, UK)
Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Philippe Gaussier  (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Peter Hobson  (University College London, UK)
Marco Iacoboni (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
Takashi Ikegami  (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kevin Laland (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Dominic Massaro (University of California - Santa Cruz, USA)
Michael J. Owren (Cornell University, USA)
Wolfgang Prinz (Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Germany)
Michael J. Ryan (University of Texas, USA)
Phoebe Sengers (Cornell University, USA)

Submission Guidelines:

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS