This seems a possible venue for readers of these lists. Absolutely no apologies for cross posting. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:00:10 -0500 From: urbanth-l-request@lists.ysu.edu Subject: URBANTH-L Digest, Vol 55, Issue 6 [x-posted from SPACE-AND-PLACE@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] Please feel free to forward this call to others who might be interested. **1st Call for Papers** Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue "Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place" Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon Background Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and -more recently- interaction design has begun to critically examine the concept of place, its meaning and the implications for design. Early work by Erickson (1993) and Harrison and Dourish (1996) suggested that place, is a more appropriate concept rather than space is the notion that for providing an appropriate suitable framework for understanding people's interaction with their physical environment. More recently, a consideration of place has been introduced in studies of particular domains such as geographical technologies, collaborative systems and interactive environments. In particular, increasing attention is being paid to the notion of place as a useful conceptual tool when studying people's interaction with ubiquitous computing environments, whereby computational power augments and enhances existing features of actual physical environments. Place provides a frame for understanding how people relate to complex environments that include technology, physical and material resources and especially other inhabitants. A debate is emerging regarding different conceptual definitions of place and on their implications if introduced within the HCI, CSCW and interaction design areas, particularly in terms of methodological approaches. The meaning and implications of these different notions needs to be discussed and analysed, and especially when the notion of place is applied to understanding social and collaborative activities in a number of locales, from work environments, to public spaces,. This is even more so as new forms of collaboration are enabled through ubiquitous computing environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): conceptual frameworks for understanding place methodological approaches for studying interaction and communication in place case studies describing the design and evaluation of spatially distributed and mobile technologies case studies of human experience of place mediated by technologies SUBMISSIONS Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2006 Notification of Acceptance: 15th April 2006 Submission of manuscripts (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250 words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however you are invited to follow the layout guidelines given at http://www.springerlink.com/(odegqt3b3lfjvx45b10mnom1)/app/home/journal.asp? referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:100250,1 Please **email** your submission (in MS Word or Acrobat PDF format) to luigina.ciolfi@ul.ie REVIEW BOARD (more reviewers to be confirmed) Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow (UK) Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex (UK) Leysia Palen, University of Colorado (USA) Mark Perry, Brunel University (UK) GUEST EDITORS Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Please contact luigina.ciolfi@ul.ie if you have any queries ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Luigina Ciolfi Interaction Design Centre Engineering Research Building, ER1 005 University of Limerick, Ireland Tel. [+353] 061 213530 Fax. [+353] 061 213484 Web: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/ http://www.shared-worlds.org/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/nomads/