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Focus section on
"Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users,
Usage, Circumstances, and Design"
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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CFP:
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Guest Editors:
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• Alina Krischkowsky, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Nervo Verdezoto, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Michael Muller, IBM Research, USA
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Important dates:
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• Deadline:
May 15, 2016
• Notification to the authors: June 20, 2016
• Camera ready paper: July 20, 2016
• Publication of the special issue: mid September, 2016
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Overview
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Whether in private or professional life, people frequently adapt,
adopt, and shape the technology around them based on their
everyday practices to ease interaction when accomplishing certain
tasks. The major goal of this focus section is to highlight how
this form of technology appropriation is used to satisfy people’s
communication needs. In particular we focus on technology that was
not initially intended to foster communication, but which led to
appropriation, driven by people’s communication needs. We argue
that it is critical to identify ‘unexpected’ communication needs,
to better account for them when designing interactive systems.
Thereby, a variety of contexts are of relevance; ranging from
private settings (e.g., home) or semi-public spaces (e.g., art
galleries) to strictly regulated environments (e.g., production
lines or health- and emergency contexts) in which appropriation
may be considered as a ‘critical’ matter. In relation to
technology appropriation we consider the following four aspects as
potential drivers of appropriation: unanticipated usage,
unanticipated users, unanticipated circumstances, and designing
for the unanticipated.
The aim of this focus section is to invite researchers and
practitioners to deeper explore on these (or other) drivers of
technology appropriation but also on the challenges,
opportunities, lessons learned, and theoretical insights that
emerge when researching technology appropriation (practices) to
satisfy communication needs. This will broaden the scope of
IxD&A and HCI research towards a more holistic understanding
of the appropriation phenomenon.
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Topics of Interests
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We welcome research papers that contribute to a deeper
understanding about how users adapt and shape technology to their
potentially ‘unexpected’ communication needs. In order to discuss
this question, we invite research papers to address (but not
exclusively) the following topics:
• Examples of successful/unsuccessful technology appropriation for
communication needs in different contexts;
• Examples of technology appropriation by unanticipated users
(addressing either expected/unexpected communication needs) in
everyday or emergent practices;
• Methodological approaches to explore technology appropriation
for communication;
• Theoretical accounts to technology appropriation for
communication;
• Design of collaborative systems that address expected/unexpected
communication needs as a reaction to technology appropriation;
• Design of collaborative systems that enable users to share their
adaptations to technology that could be useful for others in the
same situation;
• Critical reflections on the design, implementation, and use in
relation to technology appropriation practices
Keywords: Technology appropriation; communication needs;
unanticipated users, usage, circumstances; designing for the
unanticipated
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Submission procedure
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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:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php (when submitting
the
paper please choose Domain Subjects under: "IxD&A focus
section on:
‘Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems')
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 advices and for any query please contact
the guest-editors:
• alina [dot] krischkowsky [at] sbg [dot] ac [dot] at
marking the subject as: 'IxD&A focus section on: 'Experiences
of Technology Appropriation' "
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Forthcoming issues:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102
• in the same Summer 2016 issue
'The Social Innovation capacity of Open Education and Learning'
Guest Editors: Carlo Giovannella
& Demetrios Sampson
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call29
• Autumn 2016
'On Making'
Guest Editors: Joep Frens & Patrizia Marti
with a focus section on:
'Player and Learner eXperience'
Guest Editors: Monica Divitini, Gabriella Dodero,
Rosella Gennari
• Winter 2016
'Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional
Development'
Guest Editors: Alke Martens,
Radu Vasiu, Annika Wolff
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