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Call For Papers

Special Issue on Cloud-Connected Smart Toys =================================================================== Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA)

URL: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commerce-research-and-applicati...

Toys have been a part of human existence for thousands of years, across every culture, and have been uncovered as far back as ancient Egyptian times. A toy is an item or product intended for learning or play, which can have various benefits to childhood development. Children's toys have become increasingly sophisticated over the years, with a growing shift from simple physical products to toys that engage the digital world, as with the Internet of Things, and have become connected to cloud computing. For example, an invention called a Google Toy, a cloud-connected teddy bear or bunny, is an anthropomorphic device, with speech and facial recognition functions, that has the ability to control smart home appliances and other devices. Toy makers are developing products that combine the characteristics of traditional toys, such as dolls and stuffed toys, with cloud computing, to produce smart toys. A smart toy consists of a physical toy component in an electronic form that connects to clo ud services through networking and sensory technologies to enhance the functionality of a traditional toy. A smart toy can easily capture a player's physical activity state (walking, standing, running), store personalized information (location, activity patterns) through its camera, microphone, GPS and various other sensors. Some examples include Mattel's Hello Barbie, CogniToys' Talking Dino, and Fisher-Price's Smart Toy Bear. U.K.-based Juniper Research has reported smart toys and related applications are a new key market for toy companies, and that their sales will grow from US$2.8 billion in 2015 to US$11.3 billion by 2020.

This virtual special issue (VSI) on cloud-connected smart toys will examine challenging research issues from both the technical and sociotechnical perspectives. Its goal is to present novel industrial solutions to challenging technical and sociotechnical issues, as well as compelling computing technologies in cloud-connected smart toys and related applications, such as Amazon Echo, Google Wifi, and Drone. This VSI will share related practical experience and provide evidence that computing technologies are playing an ever-increasing and critical role in supporting smart toys. The work reflects a new cross-disciplinary research topic in Computer Science, Information Systems, Social Science, and Design Science.

Deadline for authors to submit papers: *** April 30, 2019 ***

Contact Guest Editor:

Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca

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