[rohrpost] Call for papers

[Oliver Grau <oliver.grau@culture.hu-berlin.de>]

Subject: Visual interaction and design

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'Digital Creativity' journal
Call for papers
special issue on
'Visual interaction and design'
Important dates
1st September 2001 Intending authors should submit a short (100
words) abstract.
1st December 2001 Full papers required.
Visual communication is the essential foundation for the design of IT
interfaces. The fields of graphic design and human-computer interaction
show that there can be different understandings of this topic. In
addition, interacting with a computer is not just visual, it is also
mental and physical interaction, with the conscious interactive
participation of the user a pre-requisite. Yet interfaces often suffer
from a lack of user perspective and the development of test and
evaluation methods which capture multi-modality are only just beginning
to emerge.
Technological developments lead to new interdisciplinary combinations.
However, these developments mainly rely on traditional disciplines and
have yet to develop a truly interdisciplinary foundation. In this
special issue we will look at visual interaction and any article
addressing these core concerns will be considered.

Articles may be theoretical, methodological, report on case studies or
provide analysis. Topics may be: theories of interaction, of visual
communication and contributions to theories of visual interaction. Also
methods for analysis of visual interaction, design tools and examples of
design productions (e.g. designing emotion by using movements) are
welcome. These topics are not exhaustive and we look forward to
receiving articles
which extend or challenge these introductory comments.
We anticipate that many papers will be interdisciplinary involving, for
example, human-computer interaction, design, art, media, aesthetics,
visual communication, film, computer science, philosophy, technical
functionality, techniques and methodology.
Full articles should be about 4-5,000 words in length, should contain
substantial new material and should not have been published elsewhere.
Shorter articles (of around 2,000 words) will be considered where
appropriate.
Authors are encouraged to include graphical material.
All articles received will be refereed by two international referees.
Notes for Contributors can be found on the journal's website
<http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/dc1.html>.
All material should be sent to Colin Beardon (su1620@eclipse.co.uk).
The issue will be published in early 2002.
Digital Creativity (ISSN 1462-6268) is published by Swets & Zeitlinger
publishers, the Netherlands.


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