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

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