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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









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