[ecrea] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Interdisciplinary approaches to social technologies

Call for Papers

i-com Journal on Interactive and Cooperative Media
Special Issue on Interdisciplinary approaches to social technologies

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
Link to HTML-Version:http://crossworlds.info/call-for-papers/

Interactive media increasingly have a strong social impact on current societies. While some technologies such as smartphones already
enable us to experience new ways to interact in social environments, other technologies such as large scale multi touch surfaces,
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality glasses, and intelligent software are at the verge of driving these experiences even further.
This new type of social technologies includes both technologies interacting with users themselves (e.g. social robots, virtual
agents, assistance systems) and technologies that facilitate the interaction between two or more users (e.g. tutor systems,
multiplayer games, multi touch tables).

These multifaceted topics in the context of human computer interaction combine know-how from different fields of research or
disciplines concerned with human factors, social interaction, computer science, or engineering. While interdisciplinary approaches
benefit from more diverse perspectives on the respective technology they often face conceptual, methodological, or even cultural
challenges. Diverse strategies can be employed, both to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary research, and to minimize
misunderstandings or problems. At the same time, successful cooperations can serve as showcases for best practices for future
endeavors.

Keeping these challenges in mind, we invite scientists and practitioners from interdisciplinary research groups to submit papers
for a special issue on interdisciplinary approaches in the context of social technologies addressing one or more of the following
topics.

- research prototypes und approaches to social technology
- theoretical and methodological approaches and challenges
- perspectives on interdisciplinary HCI research
- natural user interfaces (e.g. touch, tangible or gesture-based interaction)
- virtual and augmented reality (e.g. applications for health care, therapy, entertainment or learning)
- communication and interaction in video games or serious games
- spatial and perceptual illusions in collaborative display technologies (e.g. spatial mapping)
- ethical and societal Implications of social technologies
- recognition and prediction of users’ intentions
- impact of users’ moods and emotions on human computer interaction or human robot interaction
- ...

Submission Guidelines

We are open to review/position papers as well as original research. You can choose from two different formats:

- short paper: 3-4 pages
- full paper: 5-8 pages

All submissions will be subjected to double-blind peer review. Please remove all identifying information from your paper. To submit
your paper, please use the ScholarOne system:

- Link to submission system:https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/icom
- Link to author’s guidelines and paper template:http://www.degruyter.com/page/59

Deadlines

Call for papers: February 05, 2015
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2015
Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2015
Camera-ready: May 31, 2015

Guest editors for this issue

Maximilian Eibl
Chair of Media Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany

Peter Ohler
Chair of Media Psychology, Institute for Media Research, Faculty of Humanities, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany




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