Call for papers: Human Centred Industrial Product Design Using Intelligent Techniques

A special issue of International Journal of Advanced Operations Management

Human centered product design, dealing with sensory science (study of five human senses), consumer science or marketing study, cognitive science, Kansei engineering (study of human emotions), ergonomics and the like, has attracted great attention in different industrial sectors (textile, cosmetic, food, chemical, automobile, etc). It aims at integrating the human body and human perception elements into industrial design in order to develop new personalized products meeting specific requirements of consumers in comfort and fashion style.

However, setting up a suitable mathematical formulation, an efficient human evaluation procedure and a powerful computing method for modelling human perception is quite difficult because there exists uncertainty and imprecision in human factors (semantic ambiguity, non normalized data, data reliability, etc). Intelligent techniques can be used in a complementary way with classical statistical tools for generating efficient models of human perception and human bodies and human centered product design support systems.

Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on the areas related to human centered industrial product design using intelligent techniques which include but are not limited to:

• Normalization and optimization of sensory evaluation procedures
• Modelling of human perception in socio-cultural contexts (well-being, comfort, etc)
• Decision making support in uncertain and imprecise environment with human factors
• Semantic analysis of human perception
• Human body models and their perception
• Human knowledge extraction

This special issue is intended for revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at FLINS2010 (The 9th International Conference on Foundations and Applications of Computational Intelligence), held from 2 to 4 August 2010 in Chengdu (China), and IFAC2010 HMS (11th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems), held from 31 August to 2 September 2010 in Valenciennes (France), but we explicitly encourage other researchers to submit their papers to this Special Issue as well.

Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 15 December 2010
Notification of initial decision: 30 January 2011
Submission of revised manuscript: 1 March 2011
Notification of final acceptance: 30 March 2011