From Human–Machine Interaction to Human–Machine Cooperation: Status and Progress, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human-machine interaction; cognitive informatics; smart robotics; virtual agents; IoT; artificial intelligence
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Interests: software engineering; user modeling; human–computer interaction
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Interests: human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction; augmented/mixed reality; human-centered design; human perception; affective computing; interactive AI
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the second issue of “From Human–Machine Interaction to Human–Machine Cooperation: Status and Progress”; the first issue can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/ONT0Y07M7C.
Human–machine interaction is all about how people and automated systems interact and communicate with each other within virtual, augmented, or real environments. With the advances in AI and cyber–physical systems, the research fulcrum has gradually moved from interaction towards cooperation.
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on challenging and innovative topics in the field of human–machine interaction and cooperation, including those related to theoretical aspects, methodologies, and practice.
Developing systems such as collaborative, social, or industrial robots and computers, bioinspired systems, and digital systems and devices for use with the Internet of Things (IoT), the Metaverse, and blockchain technology is highly interdisciplinary and often involves innovations and breakthroughs in many different technical areas. These include, but are not limited to, human behaviour modelling, task and motion planning, learning, activity recognition and intention prediction, novel interaction devices, user interface concepts and technologies, multimodal interaction and cooperation, evaluation methods and tools, emotions in HMI, and environments and tools.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- H2M and M2M interaction and cooperation theories and applications;
- Cyber–physical systems;
- Social and biomedical signal processing;
- Learning by example;
- Multimodal perception;
- Human behaviour modelling;
- Activity and intention recognition;
- Intelligent manufacturing;
- Human–machine dialogue systems;
- Planning and decision making under uncertainty;
- Context-aware and affective systems;
- Safe navigation around humans;
- Intelligent systems for training/teaching humans;
- Collaborative VR, AR, and XR environments.
Dr. Tomislav Stipančić
Prof. Dr. Katerina Kabassi
Guest Editors
Dr. Yuchong Zhang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- human–machine interaction
- cyber–physical systems
- AI-enabled robotics
- behaviour-based systems
- human–machine interfaces
- multimodal perception
- affective computing
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