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Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) </b><br>
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)<br>
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2019 call for proposals of Special Issues and Focus Sections </b></i><br>
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</b>IxD&A is a well known international think tank situated at
the cross-border among <i>Education, Computer Science,
Design-Architecture and Social Innovation</i> that implements the
<i>Gold Open Access</i> road to its content with no charge for
authors.<br>
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IxD&A distinguish itself for the attention toward
cross-disciplinary emerging topics of the international research
and, as well, for its people centered and experiential vision. <br>
(<i>see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=10">IxD&A
archive</a></i>)<br>
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IxD&A has scheduled special issues till winter 2018 and is now
looking for proposals of new special issues and focus sections
offering the possibility to explore challenging and fore-front
themes during year 2019. <br>
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Only four proposals of special issues and focus sections will be
selected. <br>
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Next call for special issue proposals is expected in winter 2018. <br>
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The proposal for a special issue should contain the following
sections:<br>
<i>1.</i> Introduction & Background -> explain why the
subject proposed is a fore-front and challenging one and describe
its expected impact (max 1000 words). <br>
<i>2.</i> Topics of Interest (at least 5). <br>
<i>3.</i> List of guest editors, their affiliation and short bio
(max 4, a larger number should be dutifully justified). <br>
<i>4.</i> Dissemination strategy -> indicate the channels that
the proponents intend to use to distribute the CFP, in parallel to
those usually offered by IxD&A journal. <br>
<i>5.</i> Description of researchers and research groups potentially
interested in submitting a paper with an indication of the expected
number of submissions (max 100 words - list optional). <br>
<i>6.</i> Target audience short description (max 100 words). <br>
<i>7.</i> Indication of the preferred issue: spring, summer, autumn,
winter (note that the important dates are established by the timing
of the IxD&A publication process; as example, please, have a
look at the calls published on the journal website) <br>
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Please note that each special issue cannot contain more than 8 high
quality blindly peer-reviewed paper, while a focus section no more
than 5. <br>
In special cases, when among the submitted papers there are more
than 8 (or 5 for focus sections) of very high-quality, the number of
accepted papers can be adjusted accordingly. <br>
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<b>Important dates </b><br>
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<i>Deadline: </i>Open call till the filling of all available slots<br>
Notification with feedback to the proponents: <i>within 30 days</i>
from the date of the proposal submission <br>
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<b>Submission procedure </b><br>
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The proposal should be submitted, either in .doc, .pages or in .rtf
format, by email to the scientific editor of the IxD&A journal:<br>
<i>giovannella{AT}scuolaiad.it</i><br>
marking the subject as: <br>
<i>IxD&A, proposal of special issue (or focus section) on '...'<br>
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