Call for Papers - Special issue: making old age inviting and worth living through ICTS in the 21st century Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal http://life.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call36 Overview The aim of this special issue is to bring together a number of high-quality papers that contribute to make old age, which is defined herein as a sociocultural category conferred on individuals at a particular point in their lives, not only inviting but also worth living through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at the beginning of the 21st century. A growing ageing population is changing the world, with important implications for almost all sectors of society, wherein communication, production and exchange of information are of the utmost importance. Information and Communication Technologies are widely regarded as those technologies that make this communication, production and exchange of information possible. However, there are reasons to argue that revolutionary changes in digital technologies, demography and longevity have not evolved well together. Much of today’s research is based on the assumption that people aged 60+ are old. But what if our older users do not regard themselves as old? The dimensions of ageing that tend to play a central role in studying the relationship between older people and ICTs, and in designing these technologies for this group, are narrowed down to age-related changes in functional abilities and shrinking social networks; yet, ageing is far richer and complex. The main taken-for-granted role of ICTs in the everyday lives of older people is to ‘help them do something’. However, in light of the presence of digital technologies in multiple facets of the lives of most of us, there is room for thinking that the role that ICTs play in older people’s lives can and should go beyond helping them to improve their health, age in place and keep in touch with their children and grandchildren. How can we design ICTs that truly enrich older people’s lives? In addition to this, current research has mainly been conducted with people who were born in the first half of the 20th century. How will this body of knowledge change when we work with older people who have grown up with digital technologies? As scholars, we should recognize that we still know little about (i) what computers, smartphones, video-sharing sites, smart cities, social robots, and so on mean for an eighty-year old person; (ii) how we should design these and other technologies for the current and next generation of older people, and, perhaps more importantly, (iii) how to make old age inviting and worth living through ICTs at the beginning of the 21st century. This special issue aims to address these and other critical related issues / open questions by bringing together research on ageing and digital technologies conducted in several areas, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Games, Media Studies, Gerontology, Psychology and Sociology of Ageing. Guest Editors • Sergio Sayago, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain • Josep Blat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain • Margarida Romero, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France • Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, Canada Important dates • Deadline: January 31, 2018 • Notification to the authors: February 28, 2018 • Camera ready paper: March 15, 2018 • Publication of the special issue: end of March, 2018 -- Sergio Sayago Universitat de Barcelona http://sergiosayagoblog.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------