Last CFP: Focus Section on "Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space"

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Focus Section, N.25, on
"Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space"

to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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Guest Editors:
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• Paula Trigueiros, , Universidade do Minho,Portugal
• Michael Smyth, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Ingi Helgason, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Sarah Gallacher, Intel Collaborative Research Institute on
Sustainable and Connected Cities (ICRI-Cities)
University College London, London, United Kingdom

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Important dates:
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*** Deadline: 15 May, 2015 ***
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Other important dates:
• Notification to the authors: 20 June, 2015
• Deadline for submission of the final camera ready version of
accepted papers: 20 July, 2015
• Publication of the special issue: end of August 2015

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Overview
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“Cities are exciting”. People continue to be drawn to urban areas
because of the choices that cities offer.
Large-scale sensor networks and pervasive computing technologies are
transforming our city environments as
they become augmented with increasingly powerful networked
technologies and media. This raises the question
of how these technologies can play a part in improving the use of the
spaces that already exist in the urban
environment and, critically, what roles information visualization and
interaction design have in this endeavor.
In the context of so-called future or smart cities, visualizations are
especially relevant as they are the
tangible outcomes of these systems, while interaction design is the
enabler for citizens to engage with this
urban data.
Emerging technologies are providing new ways of experiencing
information in urban space and, consequently,
creating a fertile area for cross-disciplinary research, bringing
together computer sciences, social sciences,
design, art and music, among others. But it is through human
activities, that urban spaces become “places”.
How people experience and conceptualize “place” is formed by the scope
and range of what happens in that space
and those that inhabit it.
Our aim is to explore how interactive technology can be used to
maximise the use of space within urban areas
for positive outcomes, to enhance the experience of city living that
so many of us would like to enjoy.
As people’s expectations grow, along with the amount of information to
communicate, creating multi-sensory
information systems is becoming an increasingly challenging task. It
requires creative and collaborative
approaches to generate outputs ranging from sophisticated digital
interventions to more low-tech solutions.
In this context, we encourage inter-disciplinary contributions from
areas, including but not limited to HCI,
computer sciences, design, psychology, social sciences, digital games,
music and arts to gain deeper insights
into the roles of visualization, interaction and experience in urban
space and place making.

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Topics of Interests
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The special issue welcomes original research papers on topics
including but not restricted to:

• Public displays
• Public engagement
• Big data visualizations
• Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
• Tangible Interfaces
• Digital Games
• Internet of Things
• Future cities
• Multi-sensory information systems

KEYWORDS:
Urban space, pervasive computing, information visualization, citizens,
engagement, user experience,
cross-disciplinary.

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Submission procedure
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The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.

All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit a 8-14 pages paper
(including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures,
references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines
-> http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php

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Authors' guidelines
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Link to the paper submission page:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php (when submitting the
paper please choose Domain Subjects under: "IxD&A Focus Section:
'Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space')

More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.

For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editors:

• paula [dot] trigueiros [at] gmail [dot] com
• m [dot] smyth [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk
• i [dot] helgason [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk
• s [dot] gallacher [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk

marking the subject as: "' IxD&A special issue on: 'Making Places:
Visualization,
Interaction and Experience in Urban Space' "

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Still some slots available for IxD&A Special Issues and Focus Section
to be published in 2016
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call2016

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