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Cybernetics and Systems
(Taylor
& Francis, indexed by SCI-E)
Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Social Awareness
in Smart Spaces"
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Smart spaces are not only surrounded by
networked computers,
mobile devices and ubiquitous sensors, they also
encapsulate a large
amount of social and communication information. Humans,
the center of
pervasive computing, are social beings. Smart spaces should
not only
serve them with seamless, context-aware access to information,
but support them in their social activities and capabilities, by,
for
example, increasing their social awareness (that is,
providing them with
information about their own social behaviour
and the social behaviour of
others), or by acting in order to actively
promote change and social
well-being. Smart spaces, devices and sensors
can be used to extract raw
data that is then assembled by the system to
understand individual and group
social context, providing the knowledge
that the system can then use to act
on groups and individuals in order to
foster social well-being. With social
augmentation, smart spaces have increased
potential in supporting
spontaneous social interactions and serendipity,
such as making new friends,
discovering shared interests,
constructing instant communities, as well as
interaction in structured groups
(e.g., working teams). The potential impact
of these technologies is very high
as are the scientific and technical
challenges. For these reasons,
socially aware computing has been a hot topic
of investigation in fields
such as pervasive and ubiquitous computing,
multimodal interactions,
to name but a few.
This special issue
will involve both the science and technology aspects
of social awareness (or
socially aware computing) in smart spaces.
It will accept theoretical papers
that address social computing models,
social network analysis, reasoning,
behavior modeling and recognition.
It will also accept papers that report
upon the latest technical results
in this area, i.e., applying social and
behavioral science to the design
of intelligent systems that enable
efficient collaboration and support
social interaction in applied settings.
The papers will be peer reviewed
and will be selected on the basis of their
quality and relevance to
the theme of this special issue.
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Topics
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Topics of interests include, but are not limited to,
- Social computing models
- Social network analysis
- Social context
modeling and reasoning
- Socially aware interfaces
- Group interaction and
collaboration
- Conflict resolution
- Human behavior modeling and
recognition
- Wearable community
- Affective computing
- Trust and
privacy
- System and service interoperability
- Supporting social
interaction with RFID, smart phones, and public displays
- Architectures and
platforms for socially aware systems
- Applications such as smart homes,
healthcare provision, and meeting space
- Evaluation of socially aware
systems
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Important Dates
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Full manuscript
due:
Mar. 31, 2009
Notification of the first review process:
Jun. 15, 2009
Final acceptance notification:
Aug. 20, 2009
Final manuscript due:
Aug. 31, 2009
Publication date:
Nov. or Dec. 2009
(Tentative)
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Paper
Submission
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Submissions should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors
available at the journal homepage,
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/01969722.html.
Manuscripts must be submitted in the form of PDF file to the corresponding
editor Zhiwen Yu (
zhiweny@gmail.com).
Information about the manuscript (title,
full list of authors, corresponding
author's contact, abstract, and keywords)
must be included in the body of
the submission email message.
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