Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on Experience, Enchantment, and Interaction Design

A special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is calling for contributions about "Experience, Enchantment, and Interaction Design".

The issue's editors are:
* John McCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland
* Peter Wright, University of York, UK
* Mark Blythe, University of York, UK

An indicative list of possible topics is:

- The enchantment of digital technology
- Novel and enchanting interactions
- The possibility of designing for enchantment
- Measuring and evaluating enchantment
- Approaches to enchantment from art, design and literature
- Critical theory
- Designing for experience, openness and potential
- Design practices to confer depth on a design
- Ambiguity, depth and meaning in interaction design
- Relationships between enchantment and other varieties of experience
Important dates

Paper Submission: 25 November, 2005
Notification of acceptance: 27 January 2006
Final Corrections to papers: 31 March, 2006



For further details see the website linked below, and address enquiries to John McCarthy at: john.mccarthy@ucc.ie.

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