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CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS JOURNAL

Special Issue of Interacting with Computers on
“HCI Issues in Computer Games”
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/games.html

Guest Editors
Panayiotis Zaphiris & CS Ang, Centre for HCI Design,
City University London

Introduction to special issue topic
Computer Games are at the forefront of technological innovation and
their popularity in research is also increasing. Their wide presence and
use makes Computer Games a major factor affecting the way people
socialize, learn and possibly work. Computer Games are also beginning to
attract the attention of educators and education technologists.

With this special issue of Interacting with Computers we wish to explore
the relationship between Computer Games and Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI).  Are current HCI techniques and methodologies appropriate for
designing Computer Games? Do we need new Computer Game focused HCI
methods, theories and paradigms? What are the new challenges when it
comes to evaluating Computer Games?

This special issue of Interacting with Computers is inviting
contributions from both the academic community and industry. It will
focus on issues surrounding the analysis, design, development and
evaluation of Computer Games and the issues surrounding them. Potential
topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Design approaches and techniques suitable for Computer Games
* Usability studies regarding Computer Games
* Theoretical and/or pedagogical foundations for analysing Computer Games
* Within-game and/or out-game activities and their HCI analysis
* Computer Games and Online Communities
* Social and Cultural Issues and Computer Games
* Accessibility of Computer Games
* Transfer of gaming metaphors to business applications

"Interacting with Computers" is an interdisciplinary journal of
Human-Computer Interaction, published by Elsevier. More information
about this journal can be found at:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525445/description 


IwC special issues contain only 5 - 6 papers, each of no more than
10,000 words (so acceptance will be fairly selective).

Submission:
Papers should be submitted through the manuscript management system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/iwc/  by the 10th of April 2006. The style
standard is that of the American Psychological Association (APA), more
details about which can be obtained from:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPAFormatting.html

Important dates:
Full paper submission:      10th April 2006 (Monday)
Response to authors:        8th May 2006 (Monday)
Final version of papers:    5th June 2006 (Monday)
Planned publication:        September 2006

Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris ([log in to unmask]) and CS Ang
Centre for HCI Design, City University London
Guest Editors
Special issue of Interacting with Computers on HCI  Issues in Computer Games


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