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Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
http://IxDEA.uniroma2.it
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2019 call for proposals of Special Issues and Focus Sections
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IxD&A is a well known international think tank situated at
the cross-border among
Education, Computer Science,
Design-Architecture and Social Innovation that implements
the
Gold Open Access road to its content with no charge
for authors.
IxD&A distinguish itself for the attention toward
cross-disciplinary emerging topics of the international research
and, as well, for its people centered and experiential vision.
(
see IxD&A
archive)
IxD&A has scheduled special issues till winter 2018 and is now
looking for proposals of new special issues and focus sections
offering the possibility to explore challenging and fore-front
themes during year 2019.
Only four proposals of special issues and focus sections will be
selected.
Next call for special issue proposals is expected in winter 2018.
The proposal for a special issue should contain the following
sections:
1. Introduction & Background -> explain why the
subject proposed is a fore-front and challenging one and describe
its expected impact (max 1000 words).
2. Topics of Interest (at least 5).
3. List of guest editors, their affiliation and short bio
(max 4, a larger number should be dutifully justified).
4. Dissemination strategy -> indicate the channels that
the proponents intend to use to distribute the CFP, in parallel to
those usually offered by IxD&A journal.
5. Description of researchers and research groups
potentially interested in submitting a paper with an indication of
the expected number of submissions (max 100 words - list
optional).
6. Target audience short description (max 100 words).
7. Indication of the preferred issue: spring, summer,
autumn, winter (note that the important dates are established by
the timing of the IxD&A publication process; as example,
please, have a look at the calls published on the journal website)
Please note that each special issue cannot contain more than 8
high quality blindly peer-reviewed paper, while a focus section no
more than 5.
In special cases, when among the submitted papers there are more
than 8 (or 5 for focus sections) of very high-quality, the number
of accepted papers can be adjusted accordingly.
Important dates
Deadline: Open call till the filling of all available
slots
Notification with feedback to the proponents:
within 30 days
from the date of the proposal submission
Submission procedure
The proposal should be submitted, either in .doc, .pages or in
.rtf format, by email to the scientific editor of the IxD&A
journal:
giovannella{AT}scuolaiad.it
marking the subject as:
IxD&A, proposal of special issue (or focus section) on
'...'
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