A Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).
Special issue editors: Matt Jones (University of Waikato), Bonnie Nardi, Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Deadline for Submissions: 31 May, 2003.
CHI can bring hope to an increasingly push-button world that often seems frustrating and confusing to users. Although most CHI researchers and practitioners are motivated to make users' lives, communities and society better, there is a growing global research effort that is directly focused on, and concerned with, the social impact and implications of interactive systems.
In recent ACM CHI conferences there have been papers, panels and workshops on socially orientated topics including: cyber communities and trust; identification technologies and security; communal interfaces and developing countries; and, even spiritual interfaces. Furthermore, as computing moves from predominately being workaday to everyday, there is a growing recognition that social issues have to be addressed urgently and explicitly [1-2].
The aim of this Special Issue is to present high quality and original manuscripts that make a substantive contribution to the understanding of interactive system social issues by presenting models, techniques, new technologies and user and community studies.
Possible topics include:
Privacy, security and trust
Empowering disenfranchised users
Emotional aspects of interaction
Community interaction
Mass communication and interaction
Socially responsible design
Environmental impact
Persuasion (captology)
Public space technology
Socially adept technologies
Future social issues (e.g., implants and social exclusion)
Developing nation needs
Papers on controversial social issues (e.g., terrorism, gender or religion) are not excluded, but prospective authors should remember that normal scholarly standards are required. All social issues must be clearly related to CHI. For example, while there is a much that is terribly important that generally one might say about terrorism and the Web, for a paper in this special issue the CHI focus must be explicitly drawn out.
All contributions will be rigorously peer reviewed to the usual exacting standards of TOCHI. Further information, including TOCHI submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing your manuscript, can be found at:
Please indicate in your cover letter that you are submitting a contribution to the special issue on "Social Issues". To discuss a possible contribution, please contact one of the following special issue editors:
Matt Jones
Bonnie Nardi
Elizabeth Mynatt
The deadline for contributions is 31 May, 2003.
1. Gregory D. Abowd & Elizabeth D. Mynatt (2000). Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). March 2000, Volume 7 Issue 1, pages 29-58.
2. Harold Thimbleby & Matt Jones (2002). Obituary for a Fax. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. January 2002, Volume 6 Issue 1.
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