Special issue on Knowledge-based Modes of Human-Computer Interaction
Maria K. Virvou, George A. Tsihrintzis · Intelligent Decision Technologies · 2010
This special issue on “Knowledge-based Modes of Human-Computer Interaction” aims at presenting some novel ways and relevant challenging issues of how users interact with computers in knowledge-based environments. As computer users are spreading and include people of all ages, backgrounds, professions, education levels, aims, profiles, preferences and personalities, human-computer interaction has to undertake the difficult task of personalization, adaptivity, virtual reality presentation, intelligent multimedia interaction and so on. The special issue focuses on both theoretical issues as well as applications of intelligent user interfaces within the area of human-computer interaction including methodologies, design environments, user interface development life cycle, empirical studies, multimedia/multimodal signal processing and evaluation. We have received a large number of submissions to the special issue. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least two independent reviewers for novelty and clarity of the research reported in it. Additionally, as guest co-editors, we looked over all the manuscripts. For inclusion in the special issue, we have selected six papers from those submitted. The first four papers describe novel multimodal ways of human-computer interaction. Specifically, the first paper, authored by Alepis and Virvou, is on “Object Oriented Architecture for Affective Multimodal eLearning Interfaces.” The second paper, authored by