The new IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing seeks original manuscripts for publication. This new online only journal will publish cross disciplinary and international archival results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. The journal will publish original research on the principles and theories explaining why and how affective factors condition interaction between hu- mans and technology, on how affective sensing and simulation techniques can inform our understanding of human affective processes, and on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems that carefully consider affect among the factors that influence their usability. Surveys of existing work will be considered for publication when they pro- pose a new viewpoint on the history and the perspective on this domain. The journal covers but is not limited to the following topics:

Sensing & Analysis (Cyber)Psychology & Behavior • Models of verbal and nonverbal expression of various forms of affect • Algorithms and features for the • Clarification of concepts related to that facilitate machine implementa- recognition of affective state from ‘affective computing’ (e.g., emotion, tion face and body gestures mood, personality, attitude) in ways • Methods to adapt interaction with • Analysis of text and spoken lan- that facilitate their use in computing. technology to the affective state of guage for emotion recognition • Computational models of human users • Analysis of prosody and voice emotion processes (e.g., decision- • Computational methods for influ- quality of affective speech making models that account for the encing the emotional state of people • Recognition of auditory and visual influence of emotion; predictive • New methods for defining and affect bursts models of user emotional state) evaluating the usability of affective • Recognition of affective state • Studies on cross-cultural, group systems and the role of affect in us- from central (e.g. fMRI, EEG) and and cross-language differences in ability peripheral (e.g. GSR) physiological emotional expression • Methods of emotional profiling measures • Contributions to standards and and adaptation in mid- to long-term • Methods for multi-modal recogni- markup language for affective com- interaction tion of affective state puting • Application of affective comput- • Recognition of group emotion ing including education, health care, • Methods of data collection with Behavior Generation & User entertainment, customer service, respect to psychological issues as Interaction design, vehicle operation, social mood induction and elicitation or agents/robotics, affective ambient technical methodology as motion • Computational models of vi- intelligence, customer experience capturing sual, acoustic and textual emotional measurement, multimedia retrieval, • Tools and methods of annotation expression for synthetic and robotic surveillance systems, biometrics, for provision of emotional corpora agents music retrieval and generation

Editor in Chief: Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California. To submit a paper, go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taffc-cs.

Published in cooperation with: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society