======================================================== Theme Issue on Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Extended Deadline) <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/puc-issue> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/puc-issue ======================================================== 'Interactive spaces' are physical environments or rooms for co-located collaborative work that are augmented with ubiquitous computing technology. Their purpose is to enable a computer-supported collaboration between multiple users based on a seamless use of different devices for natural post-'Windows-Icons-Menu-Pointer' interaction, e.g., multi-display environments, multi-touch walls, interactive tabletops, tablet PCs, tangible user interfaces, or digital pen & paper. These environments can serve to support or augment group activities such as presentation, discussion, brainstorming, sketching, drafting, or sensemaking. While the original vision of interactive spaces can be traced back to the 1990s and 2000s, recent advances in commercially available hardware and software (e.g., multi-touch tabletops, ubiquitous smartphones and tablets, or pico projectors & depth cameras for gestural and 'touch anywhere' interaction) now allow to realize and evaluate formerly impossible designs and visions. This new generation of interactive spaces with natural user interfaces is of particular relevance in knowledge-intensive and collaborative domains, among them e-Creativity, e-Science, and e-Learning. The goal of this theme issue is to report on the current state of research on interactive spaces for co-located collaboration. This includes the underlying design, concepts and technologies as well as promising fields of application. This special issue will accept original research papers from HCI, Information Visualization, CSCW, e-Science, and CSCL. This multi-disciplinary perspective is intended to provide an overview of the field beyond the typical boundaries of disciplines. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): . Understanding users' natural collaboration in rooms. . Conceptual frameworks for natural user collaboration, learning, and interaction. . Design frameworks and theories for blending digital and physical objects and spaces. . Novel designs of interaction techniques, visualizations, smart furniture, or devices for natural collaboration in interactive spaces. . Tangible and gestural interaction. . Enabling technologies for natural interaction in interactive spaces ranging from software frameworks to computer vision and new sensor technology. . New observation and evaluation approaches for interactive spaces (e.g. longitudinal evaluation). . Issues of ownership and privacy in interactive spaces. . Systems, best-practice examples, and lessons learned from real-world applications. The theme issue is linked to the DCIS 2012 workshop on Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science, and e-Learning held at AVI 2012 ( <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis). Whereas extended versions of presented papers are welcome, the call is also open to high-quality, original articles. Important dates: ============== Full manuscript due: Jan 14, 2013 (extended) Acceptance notification: Mar 4, 2013 Final manuscript due: Apr 1, 2013 Publication date: summer 2013 (tentative) Submission guidelines: ================== Submissions should be prepared according to the author instructions available at the journal homepage, <http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779> http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779. Manuscripts must be submitted as a PDF to <mailto:submissions_puc@inf.uni-konstanz.de> submissions_puc@inf.uni-konstanz.de. Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) must be included in the submission email. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two international reviewers. Submissions should be no more than 8000 words in length. Guest editors: ============ - Hans-Christian Jetter, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Raimund Dachselt, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) Information about the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: ====================================================== - Editor-in-Chief: Peter Thomas - Journal web site: <http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779> http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779 - Facebook web site: <http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp> http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp