Mulsemedia in distributed environments

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 20, 2009
Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia
A book edited by Dr. George Ghinea (Brunel University), Dr. Frederic Andres (NII/CVCE), and Dr. Stephen Gulliver (University of Reading)
 
To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=752
 
INTRODUCTION
Traditionally, multimedia applications have primarily engaged two of the human senses - the audio and the visual - out of the five possible. With recent advances in computational technology, it is now possible to talk of applications that engage the other three senses, as well: tactile, olfaction, and gustatory. This integration leads to a paradigm shift away from the old multimedia towards the new mulsemedia - multiple sensorial media.
 
RECOMMENDED TOPICS
Mulsemedia brings with itself new and exciting challenges and opportunities in research, industry, com! merce, and academia. This book solicits chapters dealing with mulsemedia in all of these areas.
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
.         Context-aware Mulsemedia
.         Metrics for Mulsemedia
.         Mulsemedia devices
.         Mulsemedia in distributed environments
.         Mulsemedia integration
.         Mulsemedia user studies
.         Multi-modal interaction
.         Mulsemedia and virtual reality
.         Olfactory enhanced media
.         Quality of service and Mulsemedia
.         Tactile/haptic interaction
.         User modelling and Mulsemedia
.         Mulsemedia and e-learning
.         Mulsemedia and e-commerce
 
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 20, 2009, a 300 word chapter proposal clearly explaining t! he mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Author! s of acc epted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
 
PUBLISHER
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.  This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010.
 

IMPORTANT DATES
December 20, 2009:      Proposal Submission Deadline
January 15, 2010:       Notification of Acceptance
March 15, 2009: Full Chapter Submission
April 15, 2010:         Review R! esults Returned
May 17, 2010:           Revised Chapters Due
July 30, 2010:          Final Deadline
 
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
 
Dr. George Ghinea
george.ghinea@gmail.com
 
with cc to:
Visiting Professor Dr. Frederic Andres
frederic.andres@cvce.lu
and
Dr. Stephen Gulliver
s.r.gulliver@henley.reading.ac.uk