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Psychnology Journal (http://www.psychnology.org/)
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON Mixed Realities in the Urban Environment
Urban mixed realities represent a growing and exciting area of research,
which requires new ways of thinking about issues such as usability,
place and presence. Urban situations are dynamic and can change rapidly,
with a vast array of complex and exciting rhythms. They cover a whole
spectrum of complex and chaotic happenings which span organisational and
material configurations. These characteristics are both challenges and
motivations for exploring mixed reality technology solutions, in
particular with respect to finding methods to improve the ways in which
participants can relate to the environment and to others. Mixed
realities cover all situations in which digital objects are combined
with physical features of the environment. Technologies include
pervasive, ubiquitous, multimodal, and augmented reality solutions.
Current projects explore and evaluate forms of interaction and presence
in urban environments which use mixed reality technologies to improve or
create new practices. This can be achieved in two ways: either by
augmenting the engagement with others (including encounters, feelings,
exchanges, co-experiences) or through augmenting the engagement with the
environment (places, or things), which includes playing, understanding
and interpreting the environment in new ways. We invite designers,
technology developers, social scientists, psychologists and urbanists to
submit a paper. Topic areas include but are not limited to:
- The role of the urban environment in shaping content and technologies
- Interaction issues within urban environments
- Frameworks and theories: place, presence, co-operative systems and
cognition
- Technologies: from mobile phones to head-mounted displays
- Design and evaluation methodologies
- The role of art and performance in urban mixed realities
- Personal and societal issues related to the use and deployment of
urban mixed reality systems
- Applications of urban mixed reality technologies: games, cultural
heritage, emergency response training, pervasive games, social
networking etc.
Case studies, applications, and theoretical contributions are all
welcomed however they should all be focused on mixed realities and the
urban environment and be scientifically sound. The precise formatting
guidelines and other relevant information for authors are available at
http://www.psychnology.org/255.php. They should be sent in electronic
form to both: articles(at)psychnology.org, and pnj(at)peachbase.org.
Manuscripts should have not been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere in the submitted form. All
papers will be thoroughly reviewed in a double-blind process.
Important dates:
Submission Deadline 30th May 2008
Notification of Acceptance 20th June 2008
Final Copy due 15th July 2008
Guest Editors:
Rod McCall, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Dr Rod McCall is a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He has
been studying and working in the field of mixed and virtual realities
for over ten years and recently chaired the Urban Mixed Realities
Workshop at CHI 2008. Current projects include IPCity and PEACH.
Dr Giulio Jacucci is a Senior Research Scientist and co-leads Ubiquitous
Interaction, a research group at the Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology, projects include interaction design and studies of mobile,
mixed reality, and ubiquitous computing applications. Jacucci is docent
at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and serves as a member of
program and organizing committee of several conferences in the area of
HCI and interface technologies.
Dr Wolfgang Broll is head of the Collaborative Virtual and Augmented
Environments Department at Fraunhofer FIT, and a lecturer at RWTH
Aachen. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Darmstadt
University of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from the
University of Tübingen. He has been undertaking research in the area of
Mixed Reality and 3D user interfaces since 1993.
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PNJ is a quadrimestral, international, peer-reviewed journal on the
relationship between humans and technology. The term 'PsychNology'
results from the merge of two words, Psychology and Technology, and has
been chosen in order to emphasize the tight relationship connecting the
two concepts. PNJ is currently indexed within major scientific databases
including PsycInfo and EBSCO; it is an independent, electronic
publication that grants a wide accessibility to its published papers.
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Dr Rod McCall, Research Scientist
Collaborative, Virtual and Augmented Environments Department
Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/services/cvae_en.html
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