PSYCHNOLOGY JOURNAL [1] 3 - CALL FOR PAPERS

The Call for Papers for the third issue of the PsychNology Journal is now open.
PsychNology (ISSN 1720-7525) is a free international, peer-reviewed electronic journal on the relationship between humans and technology; it is the product of an expanding community and intends to offer a space to publish new ideas and give them wide visibility.
As in the previous issues of the journal, a thematic section will contain papers related to a target issue (details below). Submissions that fall within the general spectrum of interests of the Journal will also be considered for publication in the general section. Please refer to the Journal's web page for details on the publication policy and the submission guidelines.

TARGET ISSUE: FUTURE INTERFACES
The special topic of this call is 'Future Interfaces'; it regards those technologies that are devoted to particular purposes or peculiar usage settings such as mobile technologies; virtual and augmented reality CSCW and groupware; e-learning; new industrial applications; onboard technologies for vehicles; web navigation; scientific information visualization; e-commerce and e-banking; health applications; technology for users with disabilities, elderly people and children; entertainment; specific task-based interfaces; domotics.
Such technologies offer special input solutions that range from natural speech to gesture, facial expression, eyes movement, emotional-affective states, psycho-physiological and neuro-physiological indexes, body movement, multi-modality; they are developing at a face pace and are stressing the usual definitions and criteria of interface design including:

· plasticity
· ubiquity
· adaptivity
· mobility
· readability
· learnability
· usability,
· accessibility
· comfortability
· low budget develop,
. situatedness,
· metaphors for interaction,
· culture and interface,
· relationship between interface and online trust/ risk perception,
· relationship between designers' guidelines and users'freedom
· universal access

Original research and theoretical reflections on this target topic are invited.. Any disciplinary perspective and theoretical approach, if clearly stated, will be accepted, given the journal policy to reflect the heterogeneity of the approaces in the field. Contributes coming from social sciences, engineering, cognitive science, anthropology, logic, psychology, design and arts, cultural studies are welcome.

For submission guidelines: http://www.psychnology.org/contribute.htm

Submissions may be sent with full contact details to the following address: [email protected]