HCI Journal Special Issue on Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in ‘Same Time, Same Place’ Research

7 May 2016   | call for papers · collocated interaction

Guest editors: Joel Fischer, Barry Brown, Andrés Lucero and Stuart Reeves.

This is a tentative version of the Call for Papers for the Human-Computer Interaction Special Issue on Collocated Interaction. The definitive version is published in this Taylor & Francis Google Doc.

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the 25 years since Ellis, Gibbs, and Rein proposed the time-space taxonomy [3], ‘same time, same place’ research has diversified. This Special Issue seeks contributions from this diverse field that includes: convergent interests in tabletop, surface, mobile, and wearable technologies; spaces and spatial interaction; and the social aspects of interaction, such as conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. These research areas have matured considerably, and produced significant exemplars of systems, methods, and studies concerned with collocated interactions. Yet, new challenges abound as people wear and carry more devices than ever, creating fragmented device ecologies at work, and changing the ways we socialise with each other. This Special Issue seeks to synthesise work concerned with methodology, study, or design for collocated interaction in order to provide an overview of the field and to shape a research agenda for the future.

Since its early years of meeting room technologies [8], CSCW and HCI research into the study and design for collocated interaction has turned to manifold settings. For example, researchers have shifted their attention from workplace settings to the home [16] and public spaces [15], and developed communities within specialised conferences. We build on the success of recent workshops that are a testament to a diverse and active community, including at CSCW [4,17], ITS [1], MobileHCI [14], CHI [13], NordiCHI [11], and ECSCW [5].

Research concerned with collocated interaction charts a compelling socio-technical design space, from technical solutions to in-depth studies of social interactions around technology. Technical contributions range from cross-device interaction techniques [12] to fully integrated systems in complex, safety critical work settings [10], to the design and study of multi-device ecologies [22] and ecosystems [19].

A long-standing tradition focusing on the social in systems design complements technical work. Here, ethnographic approaches figure prominently, for example in studies of control rooms [9], air traffic control [2], and disaster response [7]. Furthermore, a range of naturalistic studies with ubiquitous technologies such as tabletops [17], and mobile phones [15] have been conducted with a goal to understand how they impact face-to-face interactions. This work often pays particular attention to the interactional resources people employ in face-to-face interaction, such as gaze, gestures, and bodily co-orientation – resources crucial for same time, same place collaboration. This Special Issue aims to document work in these diverse domains to address new and future challenges in designing for collocated interaction settings.

Collocated technology use pervades everyday life; we highlight two important areas. Firstly, the ubiquity of mobile devices raises issues at societal scale. Public commentator Sherry Turkle perhaps captures the sentiment in writing, ‘stop googling, let’s talk’ [21], and elsewhere, how phones socially isolate us from each other [20]. However, rather than sweeping generalisations, empirical research has unpacked how technology-enhanced social encounters play out, presenting a contrasting view in a multitude of settings of rich interactions taking place around technology at work, home, play, and travel. For example, in-depth ethnographic research has revealed the subtle and skilled ways in which we embed phone use in conversations in pubs [15], living rooms [16], and collaborative photo-taking [6].

Secondly, a further challenge in the field relates to Multi-Device Ecologies, which have become common as people carry and wear more and more devices, and our environments are becoming increasingly equipped with displays, projectors, and networked services, to name but a few. These ecologies can fragment both team and task awareness in collaborative work [22]. Ethnographic studies of collaborative settings have also shown that members routinely work with assemblies of physical and digital resources (e.g. [7]). A challenge for designers wishing to support collocated work is then not just to focus on the digital realm, but also to what is done manually, by hand, and with physical objects.

In summary, the overarching goal of the Special Issue is to bring together contributions that reflect on the insights of collocated interaction design research across these diverse domains. For instance, how can we leverage findings from studies of specific technologies (e.g. mobile phones, tabletops, or public displays) to understand the impact of overall technology ecology on face-to-face interactions? How can we build on these findings to design technology that stimulates and supports face-to-face interactions instead of hampering them?

EXEMPLAR QUESTIONS FOR THE PROPOSED SPECIAL ISSUE

We invite contributions to the HCI Journal Special Issue on Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in ‘Same Time, Same Place’ Research. Contributions should relate to the design and study of collocated interaction, including but not limited to any of the following:

  • Studies of novel collocated interaction settings (including ‘everyday’ settings and multi-device ecologies);
  • Design and study of interaction techniques and systems supporting collocated interaction (including cross-device interaction, spatial interaction, mixed-presence, and groupware systems);
  • Discussion of methodologies and theoretical approaches to study and design collocated interaction.
TIMING
  • Proposals due: 1st July 2016 22 July 2016 (extended)
  • Response to authors: 31st July 2016
  • Full papers due: 31st October 2016 15th November 2016 (extended)
  • Reviews to authors: 31st January 2017
  • Revised papers due: 30th March 2017
  • Reviews to authors: 15th June 2017
  • Final papers due: 15th July 2017
SUBMISSION INFORMATION

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rfV-W4WKMy0roxDO4wP41AU9h7rOfH7b5z4JKkq_G08/

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