[Apologies for cross postings]
[Please distribute]
Dear colleagues,
Due to requests, the dead-line for this special issue has been extended
to October 30:
Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
Special Issue on Human–Technology Choreographies: Body, movement, and space
Guest Editors:
Antti Pirhonen (University of Jyväskylä, FI)
Kai Tuuri (University of Jyväskylä, FI)
Cumhur Erkut (Aalborg University, DK)
In interaction design and related disciplines, the focus of research
tends toward technological objects rather than the movements relating to
interacting with the objects. Even when movements are considered, the
emphasis is placed on their instrumental value, that is, how movements
have direct effect on the functions of technology. However, the emphasis
of this special issue rests upon technological objects and how they are
used. In other words, the editors of this special issue seek submissions
that emphasize intentional human movement in the physical and social
“life-world” in which humans encounter technological and virtual
artifacts. The term choreography here refers to meaningful continuums of
movement that humans, as individuals or as groups, experience during
interaction with technology.
In daily life, each technological design constitutes choreographies of
varying scopes: Technology may enable, limit, or control human movements
and other behavior. Human–technology choreographies can involve anything
from subtle finger movements to the movement of crowds in public spaces.
A choreographic orientation brings forth all the opportunities and
options that interaction designers have available for defining
movements, movement-qualities, and choreographies required in the
interface with the various devices so prevalent in contemporary living.
Human movement is never a mere structure that could be handled without
also affecting the inherent meanings it embodies.
We seek contributions that challenge current thinking and critically
acknowledge the role of bodily movement as a basic element in a profound
understanding of relationships between humans and technology. We propose
choreography as a key concept through which the movement-centered
phenomena present in interaction with technology could be better
acknowledged, reflected on, and understood. Varying orientations on the
subject are welcome. These may include, for example, interaction design,
product design, architecture, phenomenology, or embodied cognition, as
well as more broad cultural, societal, artistic, educational or
philosophical accounts. Reports on empirical studies are welcome, as are
movement-centered reinterpretations of prior research and theories. The
themes include (but are not restricted to):
Choreographies and Design
• Designing by moving: Sketching meaningful and situationally
appropriate physical interactions
• Moving by design: Acknowledging how technology makes us move
• Issues of body as an instrument of control
• Handling imaginary (ideomotoric) movements of a subjective space
• Rethinking HCI design theories and methods through movement
• Movement trajectories in urban environments
• Spatiality of choreographies: topography, kinesphere, skinesphere,
inner space
• Temporality of choreographies: rhythm, pulse, tempo
Choreographic Sustainability
• Technologies colliding with everyday choreographies in public and
private spaces
• Game-changing impacts of technology on infrastructures and habits of
movement in spaces
• Choreographies of globalization: A way towards homogenization?
• Visions of urban environments: Spaces and moving agents in “smart” cities
• Aesthetics of movement in spaces
• The ethics of human–technology choreographies: Shaping the responsible
future
Choreographies and the technologized self
• Wearable technologies in our life: Something that tags along or is
blended into?
• Self-monitoring and quantified self
• Effects of wearable and mobile technology on body-image and body
consciousness
• SoMe-tized life: Personal and interpersonal choreographies in both
physical and virtually “extended” spaces of social media
Complete articles (a minimum of 7,000 words) should be submitted by the
deadline of October 30, 2015. Papers will be evaluated for suitability
within the scope of the special issue and readiness for peer review.
Author guidelines are available at
http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/submission/
The submission website for this journal is located at:
http://humantechnologypublishing.jyu.fi
---------------------------------------------------------------
For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES
mailto: [log in to unmask]
To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to
mailto:[log in to unmask]
For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org
---------------------------------------------------------------
|