Multimodal User Interfaces and Experiences: Challenges, Applications, and Perspectives—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Our previous Special Issue, entitled “Multimodal User Interfaces and Experiences: Challenges, Applications, and Perspectives” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/F24T6HSRT9), was a successful compilation of research and review articles. As this is a rapidly evolving topic, we would like to further explore multimodal user interfaces and experiences with a follow-up Special Issue.

This Special Issue aims to explore the challenges and opportunities of understanding, designing, and evaluating user experience (UX) across and beyond disciplines. By soliciting contributions from theoretical and practical perspectives that explicitly address the exploration and evaluation of user interfaces and experiences, we will envision the future directions of UX/HCI research on multimodal technologies and the application of user-friendly interfaces. The context includes but is not limited to education, healthcare, transportation, finance, and environmental protection. In particular, we are interested in contributions addressing the research through design approach and the intersection between applied psychology, human–computer interaction (HCI), cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, and design, such as transdisciplinary teaching to specific student groups, digitalized child/elderly/patient care services, car/train/aircraft human–machine interfaces (HMIs), mobile banking applications, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality strategies.

We encourage authors to submit original research articles, works in progress, surveys, reviews, and viewpoint articles, presenting transdisciplinary frameworks, methods, and practices that may significantly impact the field for years to come. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Transdisciplinary teaching and learning;
• Design thinking, doing, and tinkering;
• Human factors and applied psychology;
• Kansei, emotional, and affective engineering;
• Psychological and digital wellbeing;
• Clinical and counseling psychology;
• Psychological and behavioral big data;
• Brand, advertising, and consumer psychology;
• Measurement and human resources;
• Interaction design qualities and guidelines;
• Usability evaluation methods;
• Emerging and multimodal technologies;
• Augmented, mixed, and extended realities;
• Inclusion, resilience, and new normal;
• Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship;
• Human-centered design (HCD);
• User experience design (UXD);
• Emotion-driven design (EDD);
• Collaborative design (Co-Design);
• Industrial design (ID);
• NeuroDesign (ND).

Dr. Wei Liu
Dr. Jan Auernhammer
Dr. Takumi Ohashi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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