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Call for Journal Papers: Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous
Computing, Springer
Bridging the Digital Divide: Experiences and Perspectives
Editors
Lucia Terrenghi, Vodafone GROUP Services R&D, Germany
Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Synopsis
For a portion of the global population, communication capabilities
have reached the status of a commodity. Some of us can afford a
complex portfolio of communication genres, such as voice over mobile
networks, voice over IP, e-mails, sms, mms, instant messaging…The list
is long and diverse, and we, as members of the industrialized society,
have developed a vocabulary and a semantics of communication genres.
These guides our use of one or another particular genre according to
the context, to our recipient, to our personal lifestyles and
objectives for self-expression and communication. One could actually
say that we have developed a culture of communication around the media
we can dispose of. Furthermore, our lives and economy in
industrialized societies heavily rely on communication technologies
(e.g., business, banking, health, public services, and security). We
sometimes take for granted, though, that such communication
capabilities are equally distributed globally. Similarly, we take for
granted that our communication culture, heavily relying on digital
media, can be understood and shared globally. Like water and food, one
can rather think of communication capabilities as a resource
(fulfilling a human need) we are globally sharing and responsible for:
in these terms, we need to acknowledge that digital communication is a
resource that at present is not equally and democratically distributed
in the world. As such, work must be done to “give voice” to those
portions of the population which are cut out from the global
discourse, so as to preserve cultural diversity and contribute to
filling the economical gap.
This special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal
aims at collecting experiences and perspectives which address the
bridging of the digital divide. With the term “digital divide”, we in
fact address the communication divide, and the lack of digital
communication capabilities in terms of access and generation of content.
Topics which are relevant for this issue include, although are not
limited to:
- elicitation of requirements in unconnected communities
(methodologies, results…)
- projects aiming at bridging the digital divide: successes,
failures, lessons learned
- guidelines and/or manifestos for an HCI agenda in
unconnected communities (e.g., rural areas, developing countries,
elderly people, disabled people)
- examples of appropriation of a communication technology in a
community previously unconnected
- examples/ideas about how to sensitize social responsibility
in the networked society (e.g., recycling hardware, stimulating social
networks…)
Submission details
Submissions should be between 4000 and 6000 words and authors are
encouraged to use the Springer guidelines for authors, available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/Word/journals
Submission in pdf electronic format should be emailed to [log in to unmask]
Important dates
15 September: deadline for abstract submission (300 words)
03 November: deadline for full paper submission
24 November: notification of acceptance and changes requests for
camera ready version
08 December: camera ready version due
Reviewing Committee:
Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, Vodafone GROUP Services, UK
Derrick L. Cogburn, Syracuse University, USA
Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Eli Blevis, University of Indiana, USA
Ingrid Mulder, Rotterdam University and Telematica Institute, The
Netherlands
Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK
Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK
Mike Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nic Bidwell, James Cook University, Australia
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Dr. Lucia Terrenghi
Researcher Web & Media - Interaction Design
Vodafone Group Research & Development
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