Special issue on Pervasive I/O
Submission deadline: CLOSED
Publication: April–June 2012
Works-in-progress on this topic are also solicited for WIPs department
The relationship we have with devices and information is rapidly evolving as we begin to envision the hardware-agnostic dream of ubiquitous computing. It matters less and less what device we use or carry--information and control will manifest or stream from essentially any machine as everything becomes highly networked and information pours to and from the cloud and among devices. We've witnessed just the beginning of this as our computing endpoints have transformed from desktop to laptop to handheld, while the nexus of our information exchange has become firmly rooted in the cloud. The era that's coming heralds a true agnostic hardware ecology, where information can flow to and from any device in the user's vicinity in the most appropriate fashion, perhaps taking a cue from the earliest days of ubicomp, when office phones rang for people who were there, not just for who owned the phone. However, the current proliferation of devices has resulted in a world that is increasingly fragmented and rife with connection- and configuration- oriented difficulties. Dynamic environments will need dynamic interfaces, and this is what we seek to explore in this special issue.
We welcome articles that explore questions such as:
- What are the interfaces that will transform our interactions from current device-centric paradigms to device-agnostic utilizations?
- How will information scale and seamlessly come to and from a user, for example, when they are down the corridor, near a display or interface, or actually in contact with a device? How do we scale from nested proxemic to contact interfaces?
- How do we close the gap between computers' and humans' understanding of the connected information world?
- How is content dynamically brokered among different domains in users' environments--across users, devices, and ecosystems?
- How is the user appropriately identified and tracked to realize these systems? - What kind of context is leveraged for such dynamic and decentralized environments, and how is it derived?
- What applications will be revolutionized by this kind of capability?
- What are the application frameworks and models that will enable cross-platform interactions?
- What are the networking issues endemic in such environments, and how is information cached and routed appropriately to avoid delay?
- How does one choose the right information to be displayed or manifest at the right place at the right time (and what are the privacy issues involved?)
- How does this interaction change with user density (e.g., from solo to crowds)?
- What new devices or embodied computing will be applicable in this emerging world of interconnected components?
Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific publications. Submissions should be received by 1 June 2011 to receive full consideration.
In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress submissions of 250 words or less (submit to pervasive@computer.org). These will not be peer-reviewed but will be reviewed by the Department Editor Anthony Joseph and, if accepted, edited by the staff into a feature for the issue. The deadline for work-in-progress submissions is 10 December 2011.
Questions?
For more information about the theme, contact the Guest Editors
For general author guidelines or submission details: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm or pervasive@computer.org.
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