Journal of Information Processing Vol.27 682 (Nov. 2019) [DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.27.682] Editor’s Message to Special Issue of Entertainment Computing Takayuki Kosaka1,a) This special issue was planned in conjunction with the Enter- of this special issue. tainment Computing 2018 Symposium held at the University of Electro-Communications from September 13th to 15th, 2018. The Editorial Committee The themes of this special issue include logical and practical studies, various application system development, and content pro- • Editor in-Chief: duction related to entertainment computing. To collect “truly in- Takayuki Kosaka (Kanagawa Institute of Technology) teresting” papers that could become milestones in this field, we invited researchers at the forefront of the entertainment comput- • Editorial Board Members: ing field to be special editors to review submitted papers. Each Takuya Nojima (University of Electro-Communications) special editor carefully reviewed all submitted papers, and the Masataka Imura (Kwansei Gakuin University) high-quality research papers were passed on to the special issue Mitsuru Minakuchi (Kyoto Sangyo University) editing committee with a letter of recommendation. The editorial Hiroyuki Manabe (Shibaura Institute of Technology) committee avoided marking the papers using a point deduction Nobuchika Sakata (NAIST) method and adopted a procedure for reviewing papers that fo- Yu Suzuki (Miyagi University) cused on the areas where the papers excelled in relation to the objectives of the special issue. • Editorial Committee Members: Additionally, we established a qualification system. Authors Takeshi Itoh (University of Electro-Communications) describe proposed mechanics of entertainment in the format of Yuichi Itoh (Osaka University) Entertainment Design Asset (EDA) and demonstrate the work Hiroyuki Kajimoto (University of Electro-Communications) at the Entertainment Computing Symposium. The qualification Haruhiro Katayose (Kwansei Gakuin University) committee evaluates whether the work satisfy the EDA. The Tetsuro Kitahara (Nihon University) qualified EDA guarantees the effectiveness of the paper. The Itaru Kuramoto (Osaka University) aim of this system is not only to complement the special editor Naoya Koizumi (University of Electro-Communications) system but also to accumulate knowledge in the area of enter- Saki Sakaguchi (The University of Tokyo) tainment computing. This time, we had seven qualified EDAs Daisuke Sakamoto (Hokkaido University) at the EC2018 symposium. Four full papers and one technical Yuta Sugiura (Keio University) note among them are submitted to this special issue, and we ac- Takasuke Sonoyama (T-D-F) cepted three papers and one note. These are remarkable papers Yoshinari Takegawa (Future University Hakodate) that deeply discuss the basis of entertainment. Tsutomu Terada (Kobe University) Ultimately, 13 of the 25 submissions for this special issue were Tomoyasu Nakano (AIST) accepted (adoption rate 52.0%). This acceptance rate was virtu- Satoshi Nakamura (Meiji University) ally the same as that in last year (52.6%), and this is believed to Naohisa Nagaya (Kyoto Sangyo University) be the result of the discussions between the editorial committee Takuji Narumi (The University of Tokyo) and efforts of all committee members as meta reviewers. Kentaro Fukuchi (Meiji University) In this special issue, we believe that we have included a wide Mitsunori Matsushita (Kansai University) range of logical and practical studies, various application system Nagisa Munekata (Kyoto Sangyo University) developments, and content production regarding entertainment Yohei Yanase (Unity Technologies Japan) computing. Goshiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University) I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the au- Takashi Yoshino (Wakayama University) thors, the reviewers for careful and thorough reading, the Edi- torial Board and committee members for editing this issue in a • Special Editors: timely manner, and the IPSJ staff for supporting the publication Mitsuru Minakuchi (Kyoto Sangyo University) Takasuke Sonoyama (T-D-F) Yohei Yanase (Unity Technologies Japan) 1 Kanagawa Institute of Technology a) [email protected] Yu Suzuki (Miyagi University) c 2019 Information Processing Society of Japan 682.