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CALL FOR PAPER: SPECIAL ISSUE - JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
n Deadline for paper proposals: 1st of August, 07
n Feedback to proposal authors: 15th of September, 07
n Full paper submission deadline: 1st of December 07
Journal of Computers in Human Behavior - Special issue:
"Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior
communities: enabling elderly users to create and share self authored
multimedia content".
OBJECTIVE
This Special issue looks at understanding crucial design issues of incoming
scenarios of pervasive networked systems for elderly people. These systems
should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to
facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and
entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in
sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world
aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this special
issue addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly
citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of
methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and
creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors
motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior
citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked
applications.
BACKGROUND
Today, the traditional barriers between mainstream and homemade media are
dissolving. In particularly younger and professional users, use networked media
applications for new types of social participation through content creation and
content sharing in networked interactive media services such as Facebook,
MySpace and YouTube. These new communities support the human evolvement from
being a passive consumer of mainstream media content to a user taking an active
role in the media chain. This is also triggered by the increasingly
availability of broadband, digital recording devices as well as display and
rendering devices. The end-users will be both the largest content producers and
consumers of the future.
A big challenge when researching this new media landscape is to investigate how
these non-professional, an in particular senior users can be supported in
(co-)creating and sharing media content. The lack of senior users calls for a
better understanding of elderly users' requirements in how they can take a
active role in the media chain. .
It is, well known that the elderly citizens pose a particular challenge to
technology developers as they are often disaffected from the technical advance
and unaware of the potential benefit that ICT can have on their lives. The
challenge is how to enable elderly people to play an active part in the
Information Society and at the same time, integrate and enhance the new
communities of senior citizens arising all over the world.
Elderly people, as an increasingly major group in society, traditionally have,
in retirement, more time for leisure activities and as a result, look for new
quality alternatives for enriching their free time. Elderly people in
industrialized countries live longer; they have a higher cultural background
than the past generations and have more and more interests to enrich their
daily lives (they enjoy traveling, learning, sharing experiences, practicing
sports, etc). Several elderly people moves to typical holiday resorts when they
retire. It is therefore important to identify emerging nomadic cultures,
lifestyles of elderly people and related socio-cultural trends as a relevant
factor in 'anticipating their future needs and expectations' and find solutions
through new developments of social networked media systems. New pervasive media
applications or online communities may increase and enrich leisure time and
social participation, and on the other hand, can prove to be a powerful
application when used for communication in-between generations as well as and
prevention of social isolation and loneliness.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The potential contributors to this special issue will be researchers as well as
practitioners involved in this particular area and those related to the design
of pervasive interactive multimedia system. Those who are interested in
theoretical or practical aspects, as well as those that can present case
studies, or technical solutions in the area can benefit from the initiative
too. In particular, Educators, and Researchers in HCI, managers of HCI projects
working in the mobile entertainment, leisure, healthcare and government
industry (telecom companies, device manufacturers, service providers, game
designers, etc.); new media trends sociologists and anthropologists, new media
journalists, human factors practitioners, information architects, industrial
designers and interface evaluators.
RECCOMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
In particular we consider it would be particularly interesting to focus in
aspects that have not traditionally been central to Human-Computer interaction,
but are now emerging as relevant and important factors in the design of
pervasive interactive multimedia systems for elder users. Topics of interest
include, but not limited to:
* New experimental research methods s (e.g. cultural and mobile probes,
Living labs) for identification of requirements of elderly users' content
creation and content sharing
* Crucial user experience issues related to the support social
participation and mobility through mobile devices and home media applications
for the elderly people.
* Studies of new technological solutions that support, motivate and
encourage elderly people towards the creation and sharing of personal, self
authored content and the convergence between
personal communication and content.
* Novel interfaces for elderly people for such as home based ambient
displays advanced communication scenarios using a Participatory Design and
user-centred approach that focus on users' cultural,
social, behavioral and ergonomic backgrounds.
* Applications for socialization, to allow the elderly people to
reinforce and extend their social context, sustaining, at the same time,
independent living
* Novel ambient services and media networked applications that support
existing and emerging social patterns among elderly people.
* Suitable methodologies and techniques to prospect feasible and relevant
user scenarios and design consequently appropriate application/s intersecting
between mobile devices, PCs, ambient
technologies and iTV.
* Usability and design for all evaluation issues in these new
applications (eg. in-situ based evaluation techniques and heuristic evaluation
- Studies of factors motivating usage of networked interactive media
systems as well as its social impact on senior citizens
IMPORTANT DATES:
-- Deadline for paper proposals: 1st of August, 07
-- Feedback to proposal authors: 15th of September, 07
-- Full paper submission deadline: 1st of December 07
- Feedback to authors: 22nd February 2008
-- New paper iteration, submission revised papers: 2nd May 2008
-- Proofreading final submissions, 4th July 2008
-- Publishing, October 2008
SUBMISSION:
Information about submissions to Computers in Human Behavior can be found at
the journal's web site:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/759/authorinstructions
. Submissions should in the journal style, which is best understood by looking
at a recent issue of Computers in Human Behavior.
Authors should submit an electronic copy (preferably in MS Word or PDF formats)
by email, with full contact details by 1st of December 2007, to
Anxo Cereijo Roibás [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
Petter Bae Brandtzæg [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
EDITIORS
Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás
Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, Visiting Lecturer at Westminster
University, at the Politecnico di Milano and the National Institute of Design
(India). He has collaborated with the Nokia Research Center in unfolding the UX
in future scenarios of pervasive communication, and works as a consultant for
3G services at Vodafone. He has organized workshops in international
conferences and in universities in Europe, India, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore,
Brazil, etc in different areas of HCI design for UbiComp. He has coordinated an
ethnographic research addressing the future use of mobile phones as multimedia
tools in collaboration with the Vodafone Group Foundation and the British Royal
Academic of Engineering. He has been British Telecom Fellow at the BT IT
Mobility Research Centre and Executive Committee member of the British HCI
Group.
Petter Bae Brandtzæg
Received the Master's degree in Social Psychology from the Norwegian University
of Technical Science in 2000. He joined SINTEF ICT and the Department of
Cooperative and Trusted Systems in 2000. He has been project manager in a
number of research projects on Human-Computer Interaction issues. His expertise
is in analysing user trends and patterns of use in new media, digital literacy
and user experience and usability evaluations of ICT systems. He is at present
manager for WP1 in the CITIZEN MEDIA- project (IST, FP6, 2006-2009),
www.ist-citizenmedia.org <http://www.ist-citizenmedia.org> and a PhD candidate
at the University of Oslo on online communities.
We look forward to your submission
Best regards
co-editor
Petter Bae Brandtzæg
SINTEF ICT
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