ACM TOCHI Special Issues

Proposals

TOCHI special issues are an important mechanism for presenting a focused collection of significant work from areas of high innovation and activity to the CHI community. TOCHI considers only "open call" special issues; that is, special issues that are announced world-wide to all relevant scholars, that consider submissions from anyone, and that review submissions as rigorously as non-special issue submissions. TOCHI does not consider special issue projects that are workshop proceedings or that otherwise gather the work of a group of authors designated in advance.

Proposals for special issue projects should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief. Proposals include 6 components that should be attached to an email as 6 pdf files:

1. Brief statement of the scope and focus of the special issue (less than 100 words);
2. Statement of why it is opportune to produce the special issue now (less than 500 words);
3. Statement of why the proposers are the right people to edit this special issue - including a summary of the proposers' editorial experience;
4. List of key potential submitters to/authors for the proposed special issue;
5. The "call for papers" that will be published and distributed world-wide to solicit papers for the special issue - this component should succinctly describe the technical focus of the special issue (less than 1000 words);
6. Schedule and plan for the special issue project (for example, stating where and when the "call for papers" will be distributed, whether authors will first submit abstracts, etc.).

Calls For Papers

• Data Mining for Understanding User Needs
  Submissions due December 6, 2007 (closed)
• Aesthetics of Interaction
  Submissions due March 15, 2007 (closed)
• Web Accessibility
  Submissions closed
• Information Systems for an Aging Society
  Submissions closed
• Recommender Systems Interfaces
  Submissions Closed
• Social Issues and HCI
  Submissions Closed
• Sensing-based Interaction
  Submissions Closed
• Mobile and Adaptive Conversational Interfaces
  Submissions Closed
• Modeling Multiple and Collaborative Tasks
  Submissions Closed

Previously Published

• Human-Computer Interaction and Collaborative Virtual Environments (Vol. 7, No. 4)
• Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Systems (Vol. 7, No. 3)
• Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, Part 2 (Vol. 7, No. 2)
• Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, Part 1 (Vol. 7, No. 1)
• Interface Issues and Designs for Safety-Critical Interactive Systems (Vol. 6, No. 4)
• Speech in Interactive Computing (Vol. 4, No. 1)
• Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Vol. 2, No. 3)