Call for Papers
TiiS solicits paper submissions on all aspects of interactive intelligent systems, consistent with the aims and scope of TiiS as defined in the About page. Please see the extensive list of relevant research topics below. On the other hand, papers that fail to demonstrate its relevance to the two defining characteristics of an interactive intelligent system are likely to be rejected.
Type of Submissions
TiiS welcomes submissions of original research work that has not been previously published in a journal, nor is currently under consideration elsewhere. A manuscript that includes material that has been previously published, as in widely disseminated conference proceedings, should contain significant new material (e.g., at least 30% or more new content). The TiiS submission might include a deeper exploration of the algorithms, perhaps including new theorems, proofs, or implementation details; and/or a deeper exploration of the interaction issues, perhaps including the consideration of new design alternatives or a more in-depth evaluation with users. The submission should offer strong new impact, not a repackaging of the same material. Authors should include a cover letter that gives a link to the previously published paper, identifies the new contributions, and explains how their importance justifies publication in TiiS.
Literature reviews or survey articles will be considered if they present a new perspective or otherwise clearly benefit the field. Such an article can go beyond a summary of literature by, for example, defining its topic in a new way or identifying common themes and results concerning different systems or studies.
If your paper is a re-submission of a previously rejected submission to TiiS, please add a letter-of-changes addressing all comments by the reviewers from the previous submission.
More detailed information about ACM’s general policies concerning simultaneous and prior submission can be found in a separate ACM page. Authors should also be aware of ACM policy concerning author representations (i.e., statements implicitly made by an author who submits a manuscript).
Topics of Submissions
Research on interactive intelligent systems covers a wide variety of research topics. TiiS welcomes relevant submissions from all of these topic areas, and its board of Associate Editors has been selected with the goal of ensuring expert reviewing of all relevant submissions.
The following list of topics, though representative, is not exhaustive; and different terms are sometimes used to describe the areas. TiiS therefore publishes some articles on topics that do not match any of the phrases listed below. On the other hand, in some of these areas only a fraction of the research that is conducted concerns interactive intelligent systems. Therefore, not every manuscript that falls into one of these topics is relevant to TiiS.
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Machine Intelligence for Novel User Interfaces
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Augment Reality and Virtual Reality
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Multimodal interfaces
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Natural language interfaces
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Embodied conversational agents
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Computer graphical interfaces
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Accessible computing
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Machine Intelligence for Interactive Systems
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Crowd computing
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Recommender systems
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Information retrieval
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Intelligent learning environments
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Machine Intelligence for Developing and Testing User Interfaces
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Model-based design of user interfaces
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Automated usability testing
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Machine Intelligence on More Than One Level
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Information visualization and visual analytics
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Human-robot interaction
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Semantic technologies
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User modeling for adaptive and personalized systems
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Internet of Things
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Ubiquitous computing
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Mobile computing
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Games
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Knowledge capture
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Note: “Artificial intelligence”, “human-computer interaction”, and “intelligent user interfaces” are not listed as separate areas here, since each of them overlaps with many of the listed areas.
Length of Submissions
Most published articles are between 20 and 35 pages long in the ACM style.
Since the overall goal is to publish high-quality, high-impact articles, even submissions with unusual lengths will be considered if their content is consistent with this goal. In particular, the length of a manuscript intended as the definitive publication on a major project or line of research may exceed the typical range of length just mentioned. On the other side, if a manuscript presents a significant advance that can be described concisely, there is no point in adding unnecessary material just to reach a typical length.
Deciding Whether to Submit
Getting Preliminary Feedback
If, before deciding whether to submit to TiiS, you would like to get some informal feedback, feel free to write to the Editor-in-Chief with any questions. All queries are answered promptly.
If you are considering a submission to a particular special issue, you may (also) wish to contact the guest editor whose email address is listed in the special issue call.
Anticipating the Reviewing Procedure
The page about the Reviewing Procedure will give you an idea of the steps that will be involved in the processing of your submission.