Call for submissions
Pages on Arts and Design (PAD) #12
Bodies of interaction: Physical, virtual and social interfaces
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PAD (Pages on Arts and Design) is an international, open access, and peer-reviewed e-journal published twice a year. PAD publishes original and qualified intellectual production in all area of design and arts research. It provides an international and interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, debate and criticism. PAD [publishes] findings from researchers and professionals across different countries and cultures of the Mediterranean areas and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice.
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PAD #12 CALL
Bodies of interaction: Physical, virtual and social interfaces
Keywords: body-environment, interactive artifacts, new media
Editor: Daniele Savasta
Deadline: September 8, 2014
The editor invites contributions to the issue no.12 of Pad –pages on arts and design- online journal (to be released in November 2014) that will be focused on the interactions between bodies of humans and non-humans.
Introduction
In the last decades, since the computers became portable and ubiquitous the everyday life of people changed drastically. How we communicate and socialize, the way we gather for fun or work, the concepts of entertainments and occupations changed and are still mutating. The continual introduction of innovative interfaces as experiment or as product in the market impact thoughts and actions. The relations between the human and the non-human bodies are in a constant dialogue, re-discussion and contradiction. The facts and actions in the virtual world regulate and organize in a different manner the actions in the physical world. The digital appendices alter the life in the city and its fluxes. The control of the electronic extensions of our body increasingly involve the gestures of the natural body and cause its modification.
The fact is that these digital artifacts influence our behaviors and a critique of the trigger factors must be encouraged and increased. The vast span of disciplines and research fields involved denote the complexity of the topic including, between the others approaches, interaction design and human-computer interaction, anthropology and urban informatics, psychology and design for services, embodied interaction and sociology.
The focus of the 12 issue of Pad journal is on the interactions between digital artifacts and human behaviors. In specific on the relations, influences, modifications between these devices and the human body viewed as physical, virtual and/or social. The author is free to interpret the theme from his own perspective and with the filter of his discipline, although an interdisciplinary approach is warmly encouraged.
Call for contributions
We invite academics, scholars, educators, researchers and practitioners to contribute original papers that are included, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Track 1 – The human body
Track 2 – The virtual body
Track 3 – The social body
Track 4 – Bodies relations
Language
The main language of Pad is English. Although, as usual customs of Pad, the proposals can be submitted in a second language other than English.
Contacts
For futher information and submissions:
daniele.savasta@gmail.com
kiaralecce@gmail.com
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5bTrxyTSINZXJDxiSz5iVKl3HSJxh-0YSHlSeeTgJ0/edit