Given the accelerated changes and deeply interconnected activities of the times we are living in, creativity is a key factor of disruptive future developments. Creative and entertainment industries nowadays represent more than 3% of the GDP in Europe and they range from creative content providers (TV & radio, fashion, music) through creative experience providers (movies and music experience) to creative services providers (advertising, design, architecture).

Creative services, contents and experiences present knowledge requirements that are defined increasingly beyond a single discipline and appear to lie in a sound engagement among the creative practitioner (artist/designer/composer/entertainer), the engineer and the scientist. Digital arts, creative industries, and (tele)communication + (social) signal processing speak the language of convergence rather than autonomy. Their interaction calls for special attention now more than ever.

The Journal seeks for high-level contributions addressing several of those aspects with a special focus on at least one of them:

Creative Industries - the paper can describe a whole industrial project or framework integrating creative technologies for domains such as:

Creative content providers: TV & radio (broadcast, linked media), fashion (RFID and sensors, energy recycling), music & movies, books (digitization, sonification), museums (creative/artistic installations for tourism or cultural heritage) and media archives, etc.
Creative services providers: Advertising (user-centered web and ads optimization), design (communication devices for creative environments), architecture (places that adapt to people, creativity from domotics), new media and transmedia, etc.
Creative experience providers: Movies and music experience, game-based installations and playable media (participative creation, DJs and VJs creative tools), interactive social and urban spaces, etc.

Scientific topics - the paper can focus on scientific tools for creative industries on topics such as:

Creative content management: Multimedia data mining and innovative browsing, data 2D/3D visualization, digitization and storage, cultural heritage, etc.
Creative interactions: Social signal processing, verbal and nonverbal, explicit or implicit interactions, interacting robots, sensors and MoCap, human-computer interaction, user interface design, serious game etc.
Creative experiences: Affective content analysis and synthesis, immersive technologies, special effects, augmented reality, expressivity and emotion detection and processing, user experiences, etc.

Additional materials such as videos of installations and setups, public/users reactions and comments, or demo links are welcome.

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Art at the dawn of the Genetic and AI Revolution (Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-02-14; Notification of acceptance: 2020-03-20; Submission of final revised paper: 2020-04-24; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-05-15)

Guest editors: Joaquin Fargas (Maimonides University, Argentina)

Guest editors: Natalia Matewecki (National University of La Plata, Argentina)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Gamification: New Frontiers for Emerging Technologies (Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-04-10; Notification of acceptance: 2020-05-10; Submission of final revised paper: 2020-05-27; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-06-24)

Guest editors: Dr Charu Monga (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Sound, Image and Interaction (Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-02-15; Notification of acceptance: 2020-03-15; Submission of final revised paper: 2020-04-01; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-04-15)

Guest editors: Nuno N. Correia (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom)

Raul Masu (ITI-LARSyS & FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Understanding Creative Technologies (Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-05-01; Notification of acceptance: 2020-05-31; Submission of final revised paper: 2020-06-30; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-08-01)

Guest editors: Andy Connor (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Emerging Technologies Inclusiveness, In-between Humans and Machines (Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-01-31; Notification of acceptance: 2020-02-21; Submission of final revised paper: 2020-03-23; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-04-13)

Guest editors: Predrag Nikolic (Shantou University, China)

Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Andy Connor (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Anthony Brooks (SensoramaLab, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Antonio Camurri (DIST-University of Genova, Italy)
Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, Italy)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Christophe Hurter (ENAC, French Civil Aviation University, Toulouse France)
Cristina Sylla University of Minho
David Geerts (iMinds - University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium)
Dirk Heylen (University of Twente IntetainElsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen)
Eva Irene (Brooks Aalborg University)
Fabrizio Lamberti (Politecnico di Torino)
Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genoa, Italy)
Insook Choi (Columbia College Chicago, USA)
Jesus Ibanez Escola Municipal d'Art i Disseny (EMAiD)
Jonathan Duckworth (RMIT University ArtsIt)
Jorge C. S. Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal )
Jun Hu (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Lau Bee Theng (Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia)
Mel Krokos (University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom)
Michail Kalogiannakis (Faculty of Education, University of Crete, Greece)
Milton Luiz Horn Vieira (UFSC Intetain)
Mikkel Kirkedahl Lysholm Nielsen Aalborg University, Denmark
Pedro Campos (Intetain)
Pieter Jan Maes (McGill University, Canada)
Rainer Malaka (University of Bremen)
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (University of Suceava, Romania)
Robin Bargar (Columbia College Chicago, USA)
Rolf Gehlhaar (private ArtsIt Creative Technologies)
Robby van Delden (University of Twente)
Sudarshan Khanna (National Institute of Design, India)
Surabhi Khanna Independent Design Educator & visiting faculty DLI
Thierry Dutoit (University of Mons, Belgium)
Tiago Cardoso (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal)
Tracy Harwood (De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom)
Vincent Courboulay (University of La Rochelle, France)
Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira)
Yves Rybarczyk (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal)

Predrag K. Nikolic

Predrag K. Nikolic is Associate Professor at Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University, in China. He is an interaction designer and an interactive media artist who holds a PhD in Digital Media and a Master in Business Administration. His research focuses on intelligent interfaces, robot creativity, AI aesthetics and design for behavioural changes. He mixes experiential reality, artificial intelligence, and responsive environments to engage an audience in new types of interactive experiences and media perceptions. His artworks, such as MindCatcher, InnerBody, Ciklosol, Before & Beyond, Vroom, Robosophy Philosophy, VR Restaurant and Digital Lolipop were exhibited and presented worldwide at the Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Technarte, Singapore Science Center, Hong Kong – Shenzhen Design Biennial, Maison Shanghai, National Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade, Museum of Education in Belgrade, etc.

Before joining Shantou University, professor Nikolic was Dean of the Faculty of Digital Production in Novi Sad, Global Digital Director at Grey Worldwide, Global Digital Director at J. Walter Thomson Worldwide, Global Head of Digital at Ogilvy Greece, Head of Digital Marketing at Groundlink New York USA, Managing Director at JadePremier London UK and professional services consultant at YAHOO.

During his twenty years long career in the creative industry, he conceptualised and designed digital presence and digital media campaigns for the clients such as Czech Airlines, IBM, Telenor, Coca-Cola, Credit Agricole Bank, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Mars, H&M, etc.

Predrag K Nikolic has published numerous research papers in the field of artificial intelligence aesthetics, design for behaviour change, collective creativity, mix-experiential reality, multi-sensory interfaces, interactivity and interface design. He lectures at universities, act as Chair in committees and giving speeches at international conferences.

You can follow his work on the www.predragnikolic.com.

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for viewer modelling and content personalization in a TV context. In this paper, we present a comparison between three
common algorithms of automatic head direction extraction for a person watching TV in a realistic context. Those algorithms
compute the different rotation angles of the head (pitch, roll, yaw) in a non-invasive and continuous way based on 2D and/or
3D features acquired with low cost cameras. These results are compared with a reference based on the Qualisys motion
capture commercial system which is a robust marker-based tracking system. The performances of the different algorithms
are compared function of different configurations.
While our results show that full implicit behaviour tracking in real-life TV setups is still a challenge, with the arrival of next
generation sensors (as the new Kinect one sensor), accurate TV personalization based on implicit behaviour is close to
become a very interesting option.
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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2409-9708
Number of Volumes: 6

Last Published: 26th Apr 2019