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Special Issue on
"'Aging with ICTs in the 21st century'"
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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Guest Editors:
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• 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
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Important dates:
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• 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
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Overview
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The aim of this special issue is to bring together a number of
high-quality papers that contribute to help us to better
understand and improve ageing (and living) with digital
technologies 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 ICTs can provide new understandings of and
improve ageing – a contribution, not a burden to ourselves, our
families and society – in a digital area.
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.
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Topics of Interest
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We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to:
• Conceptualizing old age and older people in digital technology
design in the 21st century
• Datafication, Big Data, and ageing / older people
• Designing technologies for baby boomers: designing for the next
generation of older people and co-design / participatory
approaches
• Digital technology appropriation by older people
• Intergenerational creative learning and digital making
• Older people, social and digital inclusion
• Technology acceptance beyond perception of usefulness and
ease-of-use
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Submission guidelines and procedure
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All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be
original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in
.rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two
reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A
authors' guidelines
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Authors' guidelines
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Link to the paper submission page:
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(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page.
When submitting the paper, please, choose Domain Subjects under:
"IxD&A special issue on: ‘'Aging with ICTs in the 21st
century')
More information on the submission procedure and on
the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the
IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility
of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.
For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the
guest-editors below and mark the subject as:
IxD&A special issue on: 'Aging with ICTs in the 21st
century.
• sergiosayago [at] ub [dot] edu
• josep [dot] blat [at] upf [dot]
• margarida [dot] romero [at] unice [dot] fr
• kim [dot] sawchuk [at] concordia [dot] ca
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• Spring 2018
includes
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Guest Editors: Pedro Campos, Barbara
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• Summer 2018
'Human Computer Intraction Perspectives
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Guest Editors: Mario Aehneit, Ralf
Klamma, Viktoria Pammer-Schindler
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Future Directions of UX Studies:
Learning from Best Practices
Guest Editors: Anna-Katharina Frison,
Florian Lachner, Andreas Riener, Ingrid
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• Autumn 2018
Alternance Schemes
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Criticalities and
Opportunities'
Guest Editors:
Carlo Giovannella,
Stefania Manca,
Alke Martens
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section on
'Inquiring the way
we inquire'
Guest Editors:
Ines Di Loreto
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Winter 2018
'SLERD 2018: The
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technology, place
and people
Guest editors:
Antonio Cartelli,
Hendrik O. Knoche,
Elvira Popescu
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Guest Editors:
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