Interaction Studies:
Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Editors-in-Chief:
Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
Harold Gouzoules (Emory University, USA)

Aims and Scope:
The journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly interdisciplinary area of interaction studies in biological and artificial systems. It intends to act as a medium for dialogues across the boundaries of academic disciplines for research into social behaviour and communication that has traditionally been presented in separate specialist journals.
Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems involves important issues such as evolutionary, developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and communication; the embodied nature of interactions; origins and characteristics of social and narrative intelligence; perception, action and communication in the context of dynamic and social environments; social learning, adaptation and imitation; investigating social behaviour in human-machine interactions; the nature of empathic understanding, behaviour and intention reading; minimal requirements and systems exhibiting social behaviour; the role of cultural factors in shaping social behaviour and communication in biological or artificial societies. The journal welcomes papers that analyze social behaviour in humans and other animals as well as research into the design and synthesis of robotic, software, virtual and other artificial systems, including applications such as exploiting human-machine interactions for educational or therapeutic purposes. Papers can be experimental, computational, or theoretical studies and should highlight the contribution to knowledge of social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems.
Submissions are invited from researchers working in the natural, human and social sciences as well as those working in the sciences of the artificial. Fields of interest comprise, but are not limited to evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, ethology, social and biological anthropology, palaeontology, animal behaviour, linguistics.

Associate Editors:
Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab, USA)
Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Robert W. Mitchell (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
Yoshihiro Miyake (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Jacqueline Nadel (H�pital de la Salp黎ri鑽e, France)
Irene Pepperberg (MIT and Brandeis University, USA)
Guilio Sandini (University of Genova, Italy)
Guy Theraulaz (CNRS - Universit・Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France)
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Tomio Watanabe (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)

Editorial Board Members:
Harold Bekkering (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Aude Billard (l'Ecole Polytechnique F馘駻ale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)
Paul Brna (University of Northumbria, UK)
Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Lola Canamero (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)
Yiannis Demiris (Imperial College London, UK)
Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Peter Hobson (University College London, UK)
Marco Iacoboni (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kevin Laland (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Dominic Massaro (University of California - Santa Cruz, USA)
Michael J. Owren (Cornell University, USA)
Wolfgang Prinz (Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Germany)
Michael J. Ryan (University of Texas, USA)
Phoebe Sengers (Cornell University, USA)

Submission Guidelines:
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS