informa, esta vez luigina ciolfi, investigadora del interaction design centre de la universidad de limerick (ireland), del interés por colaboraciones para la publicación de un número especial de la revista computer-supported cooperative work journal bajo el sugerente título “settings for collaboration: the role of place”:

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 otherinhabitants.

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.

las colaboraciones deben ser enviadas por correo electrónico directamente a su responsable (luigina.ciolfi@ul.ie), entre 5.000 y 10.000 palabras, siempre de acuerdo a las normas de publiación de la revista, y nunca más tarde del 31 de enero de 2006 (la aceptación será informada el 15 de abril). los temas propuestos inicialmente, ya que no se descartan otros, son:

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

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