[Air-l] CFP: JCHB - Special issue "Enabling elderly users to create and share self authored multimedia content"

[A.C.Roibas at bton.ac.uk]

Journal of Computers in Human Behavior - Special issue:
 "Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities: enabling elderly users to create and share self authored multimedia content".

OBJECTIVE
This Special issue looks at understanding crucial design issues of incoming scenarios of pervasive networked systems for elderly people. These systems should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this special issue addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked applications.


IMPORTANT DATES:

-- Deadline for paper proposals: 1st of August, 07
-- Feedback to proposal authors: 15th of September, 07
-- Full paper submission deadline: 1st of December 07

-- Referee, reviews: November- 1st February 2008
-- Meta reviews and feedback to authors: 22nd February 2008
-- New paper iteration, submission revised papers: 2nd May 2008
-- Proofreading final submissions, 4th July 2008
-- Publishing, October 2008

PROPOSALS:

Please submit a 300-500 word proposal* for your paper to both editors by 6th July. A plain text abstract in email is preferred; otherwise, please attach a document in either PDF or MS Word format. If you cannot meet this deadline, please feel free to contact the Special Issue Editors to discuss your plans:

Anxo Cereijo Roibás [a.c.roibas at brighton.ac.uk] and  
Petter Bae Brandtzæg [ Petter.B.Brandtzag at sintef.no]

*Note that proposals are not a prerequisite for submitting a paper, but are strongly preferred, as they will help us shape the special issue and help you plan your paper. If you have missed the proposal submission deadline, please contact us to let us know you intend to submit a paper.

PAPER SUBMISION:

Authors should submit an electronic copy (preferably in MS Word or PDF formats) by email, with full contact details by 1st of August 2007, to

Anxo Cereijo Roibás [a.c.roibas at brighton.ac.uk] and  
Petter Bae Brandtzæg [ Petter.B.Brandtzag at sintef.no]

Information about submissions to Computers in Human Behavior can be found at the journal's web site:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/759/authorinstructions. Submissions should in the journal style, which is best understood by looking at a recent issue of Computers in Human Behavior.