Pervasive participation - New Horizons for Citizen Involvement and User Experience
Guest Editors
Important dates
• Deadline: October 15, 2017 -> October 30, 2017 (extended)
• Notification to the authors: November 15, 2017 -> November 30, 2017 (extended)
• Camera ready paper: November 30, 2017 -> December 15, 2017 (extended)
• Publication of the special issue: mid December, 2017 -> end of December 2017 (extended)
Overview
Topics of Interest
We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to
• Novel pervasive and mobile e-participation concepts and prototypes
• Evaluations of pervasive e-participation prototypes
• User Experience factors of pervasive participation; new methods for assessing UX factors in pervasive participation
• Innovative user interfaces and interaction techniques facilitating Pervasive Participation
• Exploitation of social media platforms on pervasive devices for citizen e-participation
• Approaches to activate and encourage different citizen groups to take part in decision-making processes using pervasive technology
• Novel strategies to entice previously less interested citizens to become engaged (e.g. gamification, persuasive technologies)
• Privacy and security issues in Pervasive Participation and approaches to overcome them
• Integration of Pervasive Participation in traditional decision-making processes
• Methodologies for evaluating novel pervasive forms of citizen e-participation or assessing their impact
• Experiences from planning, conducting, and evaluating field trials and living labs in the fields of mobile and pervasive citizen e-participation
Submission procedure
All submitted manuscripts must be original and should not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted anonymized either in .doc or in .rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Perspective participants are invited to submit one file where page one is a cover page (with title, list of authors and contact information) and page two has the title of the paper but no other identifying information. The lenght of the fully anonymized paper should be between 8 and 20 pages paper all included (e.g. title, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines .
Submission page -> link
(when submitting the paper please choose Domain Subjects under: 'IxD&A special issue on: Pervasive participation')
For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editors:
• Sarah-kristin [dot] thiel [at] ait [dot] ac [dot] at
• Peter [dot] froehlich [at] ait [dot] ac [dot] at
• g [dot] caldwell [at] qut [dot] edu [dot] au
• matthias [dot] baldauf [at] fhsg [dot] ch