CfP: Microdynamics of Interaction

[Katharina Rohlfing]

Dear colleagues,

please consider to contribute to the Special Issue of IEEE TAMD on 
Microdynamics of Interaction.
The deadline is 15 January, next year.

Best regards,

    Katharina Rohlfing.

PD Dr. Katharina J. Rohlfing
Emergentist Semantics Group
Universität Bielefeld, CITEC
http://www.cit-ec.de/es

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IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development Special Issue on 
Microdynamics of Interaction: Capturing and Modeling Early Social Learning

Call for Papers

We solicit papers that show approaches to bridging macro- and micro-level 
behavioral research on the “social interaction loop” that supports early 
learning. By “social interaction loop” we mean action sequences during 
interactions between learners and teachers. There are many unanswered 
questions about the content and qualities of those interactions. For 
example, how is the information available to a new learner selected and 
shaped by a parent or teacher? How do learners display their knowledge or 
ability, and how do teachers pick up on this information and adapt to it? 
The phenomena of interest prototypically focus on human infants and 
parents, but the same questions can be asked about non-human juvenile-adult 
dyads, or robot learners with human teachers. There are exciting recent 
efforts to precisely quantify and describe what these reciprocal 
interactions provide; that is, to specify the events and mechanisms that 
support social learning and adaptation.

Contributions can exemplify diverse approaches to studying learning through 
real-time, contingent, reciprocal interaction (or “co-action”). The focus 
of manuscripts should be on bridging macro-level (i.e., qualitative; long 
time-scales) and micro-level (i.e., descriptive, short time-scales) data, 
analyses, and/or explanations. We encourage a broad range of approaches and 
phenomena drawn from different disciplines, including but not limited to, 
anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, developmental 
science, ethnography, linguistics, machine learning, neuroscience, 
robotics, pediatrics, philosophy, psychology). Interested parties are 
encouraged to contact the editors with questions about the suitability of a 
manuscript. 

Editors:

·      Gedeon Deák, UCSD, deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu

·      Katharina J. Rohlfing, Bielefeld University, kjr at uni-bielefeld.de

 Two kinds of submissions are possible:

·      Regular papers, up to 15 double column pages, should describe new 
empirical findings that utilize innovative methodological and/or analytic 
techniques for extracting structure from rich, high-dimensional behavioral 
data.

·      Correspondence papers, up to 8 double column pages, can focus on one 
of three more limited goals:

1.     Modeling: Quantitative methods for explaining the sorts of patterns 
found in social action loops of teacher-learner interactions. Papers should 
specify how the model can capture the dynamics described above, and/or ways 
to test those models using further behavioral and modeling studies.

2.     Methods: Practical explanations of novel tools for collecting, 
coding, and/or analyzing dyadic interaction data. Papers should describe 
the kinds of interaction-loops for which the method is appropriate, and 
should explain what gap-bridging challenge is met by using the method.

3.     Theoretical perspectives into social interaction loops, and the 
importance of bridging micro- and macro-level explanations. Theoretical 
essays will preferably incorporate insights and constructs from different 
disciplines (cognitive science, neurobiology, computational models, machine 
learning, sociology, and ethnology).

Instructions for authors:

http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-autonomous-mental-development.html

We are accepting submissions through Manuscript Central at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tamd-ieee (please select “Microdynamics” as 
the submission type)

When submitting your manuscript, please also cc it to deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu 
and kjr at uni-bielefeld.de.

Timeline:

15 January 2013: Deadline for paper submission

15 April 2013:  Notification of the first round of review results

15 July 2013: Final version

20 July 2013: Electronic publication
September 2013: Printed publication

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