Multimedia Tools and Applications - MTAP

Special Issue on Interacting with Multimedia

Multimedia content is complex to interact with for several reasons, in particular because media components such as images, audio and video offer distinct interaction affordances. When interacting with photos or music assets, for instance, users may have to deal with huge collections or with many separate collections. As another example, when audio and video are combined in settings such as TV environments, users may want to take advantage of the multimodal interaction offered by smartphones. New problems emerge when the interaction involves 3D environments, given that navigation in virtual environments may be a problem for many users.

Authors are invited to submit papers which will be evaluated in terms of originality with respect to the state of the art, technical content and accuracy, significance of the work, and presentation (organization, style and clarity). Moreoever, the appropriateness for the Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal will be evaluated by analysing how authors compare their work with contributions published in earlier MTAP issues. Also, extended versions of papers published elsewhere should have at least 30% new research results, and make clear what the new results are in the submited manuscript.

This special issue invites high quality contributions associated with theoretical and practical aspects of Interacting with Multimedia.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* interacting with video
* interacting with audio
* interacting with photos
* interacting with social media
* interacting with mobile devices
* interacting with smartphones
* interacting with 3D environments
* interacting with sensors and other devices
* interaction workflow and cooperation
* personalized interaction with multimedia
* adaptive interaction with multimedia
* interactive TV
* collaborative interaction with media
* visualization via browsing, navigation, querying
* visualization with augmented and virtual reality
* visualizing multi-dimensional data, textual data, multimedia data
* visualization infrastructures, services and applications for specific domains

Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011
* Notification of First Round of Review: February 15, 2012
* Submission of the Revised Manuscript: March 15, 2012
* Notification of Final Acceptance: April 30, 2012
* Camera-ready Submission: May 30, 2012
* Tentative publication: August 2012

Submission
* Authors are invited to submit contributions online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap, selecting Article type: Interacting with Multimedia
* Papers must follow the guidelines set out by Multimedia Tools and Applications ( http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042) using a maximum of 15 pages including references.
* For Latex and Word templates, click on Instructions for Authors, expand the Text item, and scroll down to links that provide the templates.

Guest Editor
* Ethan Munson (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)

Multimedia Tools and Applications
An International Journal
* Editor-in-Chief: Borko Furht
* ISSN: 1380-7501 (print version)
* ISSN: 1573-7721 (electronic version)
* Journal no. 11042
* http://www.springer.com/journal/11042