**Final Call for Papers** Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue "Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place" Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon SUBMISSIONS Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2006 Notification of Acceptance: 15th May 2006 Background Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and -more recently- interaction design has begun to critically examine the concept of place, its meaning and the implications for design. Early work by Erickson (1993) and Harrison and Dourish (1996) suggested that place, is a more appropriate concept rather than space is the notion that for providing an appropriate suitable framework for understanding people's interaction with their physical environment. More recently, a consideration of place has been introduced in studies of particular domains such as geographical technologies, collaborative systems and interactive environments. In particular, increasing attention is being paid to the notion of place as a useful conceptual tool when studying people's interaction with ubiquitous computing environments, whereby computational power augments and enhances existing features of actual physical environments. Place provides a frame for understanding how people relate to complex environments that include technology, physical and material resources and especially other inhabitants. A debate is emerging regarding different conceptual definitions of place and on their implications if introduced within the HCI, CSCW and interaction design areas, particularly in terms of methodological approaches. The meaning and implications of these different notions needs to be discussed and analysed, and especially when the notion of place is applied to understanding social and collaborative activities in a number of locales, from work environments, to public spaces,. This is even more so as new forms of collaboration are enabled through ubiquitous computing environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * conceptual frameworks for understanding place * methodological approaches for studying interaction and communication in place * case studies describing the design and evaluation of spatially distributed and mobile technologies * case studies of human experience of place mediated by technologies SUBMISSIONS Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2006 Notification of Acceptance: 15th May 2006 Submission of manuscripts (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250 words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however you are invited to follow the layout guidelines given at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,4-40100-70-35755499-0,00.html Please **email** your submission (in MS Word or Acrobat PDF format) to luigina.ciolfi [AT] ul.ie REVIEW BOARD Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Barry Brown, University of Glasgow (UK) Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow (UK) Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Anne Galloway, Carleton University (Canada) Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado (USA) Jesper Kjeldskov, University of Aalborg (Denmark) Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex (UK) John McCarthy, University College Cork (Ireland) Leysia Palen, University of Colorado (USA) Mark Perry, Brunel University (UK) Dan Shapiro, University of Lancaster (UK) GUEST EDITORS Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Please contact luigina.ciolfi [AT] ul.ie if you have any queries ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Luigina Ciolfi Interaction Design Centre Engineering Research Building, ER1 005 University of Limerick, Ireland Tel. [+353] 061 213530 Fax. [+353] 061 213484 Skype: luigina.ciolfi Web: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/ http://www.shared-worlds.org/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/nomads/ ----------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------