CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal
on ``Human Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments''
Ubiquitous computing advocates interaction through calm technology
whereby users sense and
control what directly interests them, while retaining tangential
awareness of other informational
opportunities that they can at any time choose to focus on. This
requires seamless access to media,
information sharing and communication through heterogeneous systems,
which are distributed and
may be deeply embedded in the physical environment. To achieve this
goal, it is necessary to deepen
our understanding of human behaviour in context and its impact on
technological issues relevant to
ubiquitous environments. Research in this area is rapidly gaining
importance and has become an
essential part of pervasive and mobile computing systems.
This special issue solicits original papers that contribute to our
understanding of human behaviour and
its impact on the design, development and use of applications in mobile
and ubiquitous settings.
Submissions can focus on theoretical and applied research in topics
including, but not limited to:
• Data capture and knowledge discovery for user modelling in ubiquitous
environments
• Machine learning techniques applied to socially-aware ubiquitous systems
• Experience design in socially-aware ubiquitous systems
• Human-computer interaction issues in ubiquitous environments
• Detecting and using patterns of human behaviour in ubiquitous computing
• Modelling and recognition of user activity, mobility and context
• Social computing applications in human-centred ubiquitous environments
• Pervasive user-generated content: applications, systems and practices
• Applications in mobile and ubiquitous environments for learning,
business, social computing,
travelling, arts, entertainment, gaming, healthcare and virtual worlds.
Submissions should be of high standard for an international, archival
research journal, and will be
reviewed according to the strict standards of the PMC journal. Papers
should not have been submitted
or published elsewhere but could be extended or refined versions of
conference papers with
significant new, original material. Extended versions or refined
versions of conference papers are
expected to differ from the conference version by at least 30% across
all sections - authors are
requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary
document explaining the
enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation
guidelines can be obtained
from the PMC Journal's web page (<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc>).
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is March 1, 2009 and authors
will be notified of the decision
by June 1, 2009. The final manuscripts will be due October 1, 2009.
Authors should submit their full manuscripts to the PMC Special Issues
(under the “Human Behaviour”
topic), using the Elsevier online Editorial System (EES) at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc.
Guest editors
Dr. George D. Magoulas
School of Computer Science and
Information Systems, Birkbeck
College, University of London
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Dr. George Roussos
School of Computer Science and
Information Systems, Birkbeck
College, University of London
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Dr. Mirco Musolesi
Computer Laboratory, University of
Cambridge
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