CFP: Special Issue of IJHCS on Designing for Reflection on Personal Experience

> Special Issue on Designing for Reflection on Personal Experience
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> International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
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> Guest Editors:
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> Corina Sas (Lancaster University, UK)
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> Alan Dix (Lancaster University, UK)
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> The concept of user experience and its increasingly acknowledged
> role in
> understanding usability of technology has paved the way for
> experience-based design. In this context, conceptualising the
> experience
> of interaction with technology as a reflective, sense making endeavour
> has already started to emerge. Slow design, reflective design,
> inquisitive design, and technology as experience are attempts in this
> direction which particularly highlight the role of emotions and
> artistic
> representations for inviting reflection. Although reflection is a
> required practice in design, we aim to broaden its scope into
> looking at
> how technology should be designed to support people's reflection, when
> the object of reflection is personal and directly related to everyday
> events in people's lives.
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> Designing for reflection on personal experience is an emerging field
> capturing the movement from designing for experience as interaction
> with
> technology towards designing for reflection on felt-life experience
> captured by technology. This field is positioned at the intersection
> of
> affective sensors, mobile computing, simulated environments,
> life-logging and autobiographical memory technologies. However,
> despite
> their potential, there has been surprisingly little research into how
> these technologies invite self reflection and support personal sense
> making.
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> This special issue aims to present a set of high-quality, high-impact,
> original research outcomes in designing for personal reflection and
> provision of support for the development of abilities for self
> reflection. We invite contributions relating but not limited to:
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> * development and critique of technologies for reflection on
> experience
> * design guidelines for developing technology for reflection on
> experience
> * design technology for developing and training reflective skills
> * design technology for assessing and developing emotional
> awareness
> * methods and instruments for the evaluation of technology for
> reflection
> * exploration of the role of arts in technology for reflection on
> experience
> * motivational and persuasive interfaces for reflection on
> experience
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> This special issue follows from a very successful workshop held a CHI
> 2009: Designing for Reflection on Experience
> (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~corina/CHI09Workshop
> <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~corina/CHI09Workshop> ) and we now
> invite
> members of the research community to submit original articles covering
> these issues. Although articles must be based on original research,
> extended versions of conference papers may be acceptable if they
> contain
> at least 50% new material. This applies to papers presented at the
> recent CHI workshop as well. Complete articles should be submitted by
> the deadline of 18 January 2010. Papers will be subject to the full
> IJHCS review process, with decisions expected by 19 April 2010.
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> Timeline
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> 18 January 2010, 1st full submission
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> 19 April 2010, Notification of 1st review
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> 21 June 2010, 2nd submission (revised in the light of the first
> review)
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> 20 Sept 2010, Final notification
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> 18 October 2010, Final revision due
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> Target Publication date: February 2011
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> Submission instructions
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> Manuscripts should generally not exceed 8000 words. Papers should be
> prepared according to the IJHCS Guide for authors, and should be
> submitted online. The IJHCS Guide for authors and online submission
> are
> available at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/
> <http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/> .
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> To submit to the Special Issue, please select Article Type ''Special
> Issue: Reflection on Experience'' and state in the ''Enter Comments''
> section that the paper is intended for the "Designing for Reflection
> on
> Personal Experience Special Issue being edited by "Sas and Dix". If
> you
> are a first time user of the journal's online submission tool, you
> will
> have to register yourself as an author on the system. Potential
> authors
> should contact Corina Sas (corina@comp.lancs.ac.uk) with any questions
> about the special issue.
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> For information on the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
> see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs
> <http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs> .
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> Provisional Referee Panel
> Ann Blandford, University College London.
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> Paul Brna, University of Edinburgh
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> Giancarlo Dimaggio, Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva
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> Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
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> Elise van den Hoven, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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> Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University
> Scott Mainwaring, Intel Labs