IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications' March/April 2013 issue

Call for Papers

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Special Issue on Interactive Public Displays
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http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cgacfp2

Recent trends show an increasing prevalence of interactive displays of varying sizes in public and urban life. With their prominent visibility and the integration of diverse methods for interaction, they can offer new opportunities to enrich user experiences beyond the personal sphere, for instance in public knowledge institutions such as museums and libraries, or integrated within public plazas or architectural facades.
The public context with its social and cultural particularities and constraints provides a large variety of intriguing but challenging settings and use-case scenarios for interactive displays of varying sizes.

This special issue will focus on research that addresses the opportunities and challenges around public indoor and outdoor urban display installations. We in particular encourage submissions that approach the topic from a holistic point of view, including the design process as well as insights from field deployments "in the wild". Topics for articles include, but are not limited to:

- Real-world applications and scenarios in the urban context.
- Display technologies suitable for public scenarios.
- Designing for evocative urban experiences.
- Initiating meaningful engagement with content in urban contexts.
- Questions around participation, authorship, and ownership.
- Content, visualization techniques and gaming.
- Interaction techniques and paradigms suitable for urban scenarios.
- Shaping experiences through implicit and explicit feedback mechanisms.
- Methods and challenges of evaluating large urban display installations.
- Findings from "in the wild" studies.

Submissions due: July 14, 2012
First Round of Reviews: Sept. 1, 2012
Publication: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications' March/April 2013 issue

Guest Editors

Uta Hinrichs, InnoVis Group, University of Calgary, uhinrich@ucalgary.ca Nina Valkanova, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, nina.valkanova@upf.edu Kai Kuikkaniemi, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, kai.kuikkaniemi@hiit.fi Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, giulio.jacucci@hiit.fi Sheelagh Carpendale, InnoVis Group, University of Calgary, sheelagh@ucalgary.ca Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, Andrew.VandeMoere@asro.kuleuven.be