Aims & Scope

Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners. Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal.

Specific areas of interest include:

    Computer, video, console and internet games
    Cultural computing and cultural issues in entertainment
    Digital new media for entertainment
    Entertainment robots and robot like applications
    Entertainment technology, applications, application program interfaces, and entertainment system architectures
    Human factors of entertainment technology
    Impact of entertainment technology on users and society
    Integration of interaction and multimedia capabilities in entertainment systems
    Interactive television and broadcasting
    Interactive art and entertainment
    Methodologies, paradigms, tools, and software/hardware architectures for supporting entertainment applications
    Mixed, augmented and virtual reality systems for entertainment
    New genres of entertainment technology
    Serious Games used in education, training, and research
    Simulation/gaming methodologies used in education, training, and research
    Social media for entertainment

In the area of empirical and experimental studies we are looking for contributions which are very well documented, innovative, and tested or evaluated in a particular entertainment domain.

Software publication
We invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.

For more information contact us at: software.impacts@elsevier.com

Special Issue on Multimodal Perception and Interaction Technologies in Entertainment Computing
Submission Date: 2026-06-30

This Special Issue covers theoretical foundations, system architectures, algorithms, interaction techniques, and empirical evaluations related to multimodal perception and intelligent interaction in entertainment systems. Submissions must explicitly target entertainment products or services and include system implementation details together with experimental validation in entertainment environments.

The scope includes, but is not limited to, the design and development of multimodal entertainment systems that integrate vision, audio, gesture, motion, physiological, affective, and contextual signals; intelligent interaction mechanisms that adapt content, characters, or narratives in response to user behavior and emotional states; and generative AI techniques for creating dynamic and personalized entertainment content.

The Special Issue particularly welcomes work addressing next-generation entertainment ecosystems such as immersive XR platforms, virtual and mixed-reality performances, interactive narratives, AI-driven characters, and metaverse-style social entertainment. Contributions may come from computer science, human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, media studies, and related interdisciplinary fields, provided that the research demonstrates clear relevance, implementation, and evaluation within entertainment contexts.

Guest editors:
Dr. Mudasir Mohd
Affiliation: University of Kashmir, Garhwal, India
Dr. Sheikh Nasrullah
Affiliation: IBM Research - Almaden, California, USA
Dr. Imran Parray
Affiliation: SHMM Government Degree College Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Manuscript submission information:

    Open for Submission: from 01-Jan-2026 to 30-Jun-2026
    Submission Site: Editorial Manager®
    Article Type Name: "VSI: ENTCOM_Multimodal Perception" - please select this item when you submit manuscripts online

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical quality, and clarity. Once accepted, articles will be posted online immediately and published in a journal regular issue within weeks. Articles will also be simultaneously collected in the online special issue.
For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Leading Guest Editor Dr. Mudasir Mohd.
Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more: Guide for authors - Entertainment Computing - ISSN 1875-9521 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
For more information about our Journal, please visit our ScienceDirect Page: Entertainment Computing | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Keywords:

    Multimodal Perception
    Intelligent Interaction
    Entertainment Computing
    XR and Immersive Systems
    Affective and Adaptive Entertainment