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> From: gaz <gary.marsden at gmail.com> > Date: August 5, 2008 9:59:24 AM GMT+03:00 > To: hci4d <hci4d at googlegroups.com> > Subject: [hci4d] Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing > Special Issue > > > Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue: > > Bridging the Digital Divide: Experiences and Perspectives > > > Editors > > Lucia Terrenghi, Vodafone GROUP Services R&D, Germany > > Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa > > > Synopsis > > For a portion of the global population, communication capabilities > have reached the status of a commodity. Some of us can afford a > complex portfolio of communication genres, such as voice over mobile > networks, voice over IP, e-mails, sms, mms, instant messaging?The list > is long and diverse, and we, as members of the industrialized society, > have developed a vocabulary and a semantics of communication genres. > These guides our use of one or another particular genre according to > the context, to our recipient, to our personal lifestyles and > objectives for self-expression and communication. One could actually > say that we have developed a culture of communication around the media > we can dispose of. Furthermore, our lives and economy in > industrialized societies heavily rely on communication technologies > (e.g., business, banking, health, public services, and security). We > sometimes take for granted, though, that such communication > capabilities are equally distributed globally. Similarly, we take for > granted that our communication culture, heavily relying on digital > media, can be understood and shared globally. Like water and food, one > can rather think of communication capabilities as a resource > (fulfilling a human need) we are globally sharing and responsible for: > in these terms, we need to acknowledge that digital communication is a > resource that at present is not equally and democratically distributed > in the world. As such, work must be done to ?give voice? to those > portions of the population which are cut out from the global > discourse, so as to preserve cultural diversity and contribute to > filling the economical gap. > > This special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal > aims at collecting experiences and perspectives which address the > bridging of the digital divide. With the term ?digital divide?, we in > fact address the communication divide, and the lack of digital > communication capabilities in terms of access and generation of > content. > > > > Topics which are relevant for this issue include, although are not > limited to: > > - elicitation of requirements in unconnected communities > (methodologies, results?) > > - projects aiming at bridging the digital divide: successes, > failures, lessons learned > > - guidelines and/or manifestos for an HCI agenda in unconnected > communities (e.g., rural areas, developing countries, elderly people, > disabled people) > > - examples of appropriation of a communication technology in a > community previously unconnected > > - examples/ideas about how to sensitize social responsibility in > the networked society (e.g., recycling hardware, stimulating social > networks?) > > > > Submission details > > Submissions should be between 3000 and 4000 words and authors are > encouraged to use the Springer guidelines for authors, available at > ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/Word/journal > > Submission in pdf electronic format should be emailed to > bridgingdivide at vodafone.com > > > > Important dates > > 15 September: deadline for abstract submission (300 words) > > 03 November: deadline for full paper submission > > 24 November: notification of acceptance and changes requests for > camera ready version > > 08 December: camera ready version due > > > > Reviewing Committee: > > Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK > > Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK > > Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University, UK > > Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, Vodafone GROUP Services, UK > > Derrick L. Cogburn, Syracuse University, USA > > Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town, South Africa > > Eli Blevis, University of Indiana, USA > > Ingrid Mulder, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands > > Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK > > Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK > > Mike Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > > Nic Bidwell, James Cook University, Australia > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hci4d" group. > To post to this group, send email to hci4d at googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d+unsubscribe at > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >
