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Sent: 14 March 2012 09:50
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Subject: 2nd CFP: Special Issue on the Social Implications of Embedded
Systems

 

**Apologies for Cross Posting**

 

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2nd CFP: Special Issue of Interacting with Computers on the Social
Implications of Embedded Systems

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Main Submission Deadline: 1st May 2012

 

URL:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/interacting-with-computers/call-for-pap
ers 

 

 

Aims and Scope

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Research on Embedded Systems or Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and its
associated sensory and mobile technologies, is shifting focus from
studies in controlled research laboratories, to emerging prototype
implementations in real world everyday applications. The future
application of PerCom is envisaged to cover almost all public, personal
and commercial aspects of our lives. The benefits of PerCom are numerous
and wide ranging, providing unprecedented applications on a previously
unseen scale. However, this large scale use of technology brings with it
a series of potential implications for its users.

 

Researchers studying the social aspects of PerCom have, to date,
generally focused on its future positive application, with insufficient
consideration or discussion of its potential short and long term social
consequences. If the implications of PerCom are to be prevented or
minimized, research should be conducted while the technology is in its
relatively early stages of development, prior to its large scale
adoption. This proposed special issue of interacting with computers aims
to promote the discussion, and empirical investigation of the social
implications of location aware technology. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:

 

   * Making the invisible socially acceptable

   * Social trust in PerCom

   * Influence through increased availability of information

   * The physical, social and legal boundaries of PerCom

 * Location tracking of people and objects: privacy issues

   * Socially acceptable design: guidelines

   * Models of implications/user responses

 

In light of the impending shift in research focus from laboratories to
real world implementations, the special issue aims, in particular, to
attract submissions with empirical studies on:

 

   * Embedded systems deployed in real environments

   * The effect of the deployed technology on its users

   * The impact of the data obtained by the embedded systems and its use

 

Submission Details

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Authors are encouraged to submit a short abstract (300-500 words) and a
tentative title prior to the full paper submission, by 1st April 2012,
to Stuart Moran ([log in to unmask]) and Irene Lopez de
Vallejo ([log in to unmask]). Please feel free to send an inquiry
prior to writing the abstract. The deadline for the final full-paper
submission is 1st May 2012. Manuscripts should be 5000-7500 words,
prepared according to the IwC's guide for authors and should be
submitted online. Illustrations must be provided in separate .jpg or.gif
files, and APA Publication Manual (not ACM or IEEE) style is used. Color
is discouraged. 

If you are a first-time user of the journal's online submission tool,
you will have to register yourself as an author on the system. Potential
authors should contact Stuart Moran ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) and Irene Lopez de Vallejo
([log in to unmask]) with any questions about the special issue.

 

Special Issue Editors

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Dr Stuart Moran, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham /
Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK

Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo, IK4-Tekniker, Avenida Otaola, 20, Eibar,
Gipuzkoa, Spain

 

Important Dates

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Abstract submissions:  1st April 2012

Deadline for full paper submission:  1st May 2012

Announcement of results:  8th July 2012

Submission of revised papers:  8th August 2012

Final acceptance and comments:  8th September 2012

Camera ready submission deadline:  22nd November 2012

 

Referee Panel

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Dr Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

Dr Keiichi Nakata (University of Reading, UK)

Dr Stuart Moran (University of Nottingham, UK)

Prof. Sarah Spiekermann (Vienna University of Economics and Business,
Austria)

Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo (IK4-Tekniker, Spain)

 

 

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Dr Stuart Moran

Research Fellow


Mixed Reality Lab (MRL), School of Computer Science, 

University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road

Nottingham,  NG8 1BB, UK

 

Tel: +44 (0)7724 565 106

Email: [log in to unmask]

Web: www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/

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