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Call for Papers – Special Issue of the International Journal of Human
Computer Interaction
In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/ijhci.html
http://www.leaonline.com/loi/ijhc
Submission deadline: 10 February 2006
The increasing complexity of organisations and systems of
communication, and the fast pace of technological change and
adaptation, poses a challenge for researching the cognitive, social and
cultural impact of technology that is in useand in its natural
settings,in-situ.
Human-technology evaluation paradigms differ substantially as to
whether, for example, they employ high fidelity scenarios and real
users, or whether technologies are instead evaluated "analytically" by
non-experts. These different evaluations usually happen before the
artefacts are introduced into the "real" world, and then often that is
also where evaluation ceases. This seems a serious limitation, missing
an opportunity to understand and evaluate how designed artefacts
actually function when used in the intended context such as a complex
critical workplaces or a domestic, leisure-focused settings. Such
contexts, where novel technologies meet complex activity, present new
challenges in anticipating how technology will be used in
practice. Evaluation and re-design should be underpinned by an
understanding of what do people do with the technology and how they
adapt it or accommodate it into their work practices to make the
technology work or work better for them.
What is the state of the art in the methods and techniques available
for such evaluations? And perhaps more interestingly, what can or has
been done to advance the state of research and evaluation paradigms for
studying the cognitive, social and cultural impact of technology that
is in-use and in-situ? This special issue invites papers that explore
the state of the art in field research, experimental work, and other
methods and concepts relevant to designing and evaluating technology
‘in-use, in-situ’. The aim of the issue is to identify gaps and
problems for the development of evaluation and design methodology.
Researchers from domains spanning the social and computing sciences,
engineering, design, humanities, sciences, are encouraged share their
experiences and perspectives, and reflect on the fundamentals of
complex socio-technical systems and human-centred technology.
Research areas include, but are not limited to the following:
* Innovative methods for the evaluation and validation of technology
once it has been deployed
* Assessing the impact of technological interventions on work and other
systems
* Ethnographic or similar studies that emphasise the evaluation of
technology in use
* Tailoring and appropriation of technology in use
* How evaluation approaches meet the challenges posed by novel
technologies and contexts of interaction
* Theoretical perspectives on technologies in use, in situ
* Studies that highlight and explore the differences between evaluating
technologies ‘in use, in situ’ and in other contexts such as
laboratories or simulations
Submission
Papers should be submitted electronically by 10 February 2006 through
the IJHCI’s Editorial Manager. For details of how to submit
seehttp://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/ijhci.html.
In formatting submissions, authors should follow the guidelines for
authors available from:
http://www.leajournals.com/ijhci/instructions_for_authors.htm
Following the normal procedures of the journal, each submission will be
reviewed by three experts in the HCI field.
Important dates
Submission deadline: 10 February 2006
Notification to authors: March 29 2006
Submission of revised papers: May 2006
It is expected that the special issue will be published in early 2007.
Guest editors
Bob Fields
William Wong
Paola Amaldi
Satinder Gill
Interaction Design Centre
School of Computing Science
Middlesex University, London, UK
For further information contact
Bob Fields ([log in to unmask])
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/ijhci.html
Interaction Design Centre
School of Computing Science (Ravensfield House)
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
Hendon, London, NW4 4BT, UK.
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