Special issue on “cooperative design, visualization and engineering for multimodal systems and datasets” at Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces. http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193 With the rapid advancement of storage media and network technologies, the data we need to deal with in organizational systems has become increasingly large and complex. How to address the distributive and multimodal nature of enterprise data and cooperative practice of system design to accommodate the demand for systems of data analytics remains an open problem, which has attracted rich attention from both from researchers and practitioners in these days. This specie issue targets on novel design principles, analytics techniques and evaluation methodologies that are to address issues surrounding cooperative design, visualization and engineering for multimodal systems and datasets. The primary objective is to foster focused attention in this emerging area and to serve as forum for researchers and professionals all over the world to exchange and discuss the latest advances. Papers to be submitted to this special issue must focus on multimodal interaction and multimodal interfaces (e.g. combination of several input and/or output modalities such as gesture, speech, vision, graphics, haptics, touch, etc.). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and papers will be selected based on their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. Topics considered for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: · Innovative visual processing and analytics systems and techniques of multimodal data · Case studies, user studies, and application systems of multimodal user interfaces and multimodal data sets · Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design methodologies · Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in cooperative design · Visualization for multiple user, multiple location, concurrent visualization · System architecture, prototypes, and user interfaces for cooperative visualization · Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making · Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems *Schedule:* Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2016 Final notification June 30, 2017 Notification of the first review April 30, 2017 Final manuscript July 30, 2017 Revised paper submission May 30, 2017 Publication Late 2017 *Instructions for authors: * Submissions should be around 8-12 pages and must not have been previously published, with the exception that substantial extensions of conference and workshop papers (at least 30% new content) can be considered. Authors are requested to follow instructions for manuscript submission to the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces (http://www.springer.com/compu ter/hci/journal/12193) and to submit manuscripts at the following link: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmui/. The article type to be selected is “SI-Coop”. Guest editors: Dr. Tony Huang, University of Tasmania, Australia Prof Yuhua Luo, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Prof Henry Duh, University of Tasmania, Australia contact: Tony.Huang@utas.edu.au