<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Apologize for unintended cross-mailing ========================================================= IxD&A <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1">Privacy Policy</a> ========================================================= Focus Section on Inquiring the way we inquire to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) <big><big><big>----------------------------------------------------------------</big></big></big> *** Since 2012 also in Scopus *** <big>*** Since 2015 also in Emerging Sources Citation Index and Web of Science ***</big> ---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call37fs">http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call37fs</a> ========================================================= Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Ines Di Loreto (University of Technology of Troyes, France • Elena Parmiggiani (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and University of Oulu, Finland) =========================================== Important dates: ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: August 27, 2018 (extended) • Notification to the authors: October 10, 2018 • Camera ready paper: October 25, 2018 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2018 =========================================== Overview ----------------------------------------------------------- This focus section aims to promote a critical reflection of research methods to study modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). For decades, several disciplines from the human sciences (e.g., philosophy, economics, management sciences, semiotics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology) have demonstrated the complexity of the interactions between uses, social activities, and technical developments. Researchers from these disciplines have brought on the field the rigor of their intrinsic questioning, their methods, and their own histories. To grasp the interplay among all elements, reflexivity is a powerful tool drawn from the social sciences tradition to understand the relationship between the researcher, the surrounding context, and the research process. This notion recognizes and highlights that the researcher is part of the world that she is studying. As such, reflexivity invites the researcher to explicitly elaborate on the way different social, political, and theoretical aspects ‘are woven together in the process of knowledge development, during which empirical material is constructed, interpreted and written.’ As their methods of inquiry are today appropriated and accepted by design researchers, however, the consequences of applying methods that were originally designed to study specific aspects – for example social aspects – to the study and the design of technology remain largely unquestioned. It is however important to reflect on the consequences of our methodological choices (e.g., what we leave untold, invisible) and their generative potential. Questioning the construction of the research methods has indeed political meaning, because of its analytical consequences, such as allowing researchers to investigate how design can empower (or silence) specific categories of stakeholders, even non-human ones. The objective of this Focus Session is to propose a discussion on the methodological posture of studies of collaborative and interactive design prototyping. We invite contributions inquiring into “the way we inquire”, promoting a reflexive practice onto the way we apply our research methodologies to inform, understand, and/or support the design of technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------- Possible research questions addressed by articles in the focus section include (but are not limited to): • What does it mean to promote a reflexive practice? • What are the ethics and the epistemology of reflexive practices? • How can we reflexively select and craft a research method to study the design of systems? • How do we reflect upon the emerging constraints, needs, and expectations? • How can we combine qualitative and quantitative methods in a reflexive fashion? • How can we leverage the potential of reflexive inquiry to scale up our inquiring methods to study distributed and/or long-term technologies? =========================================== Submission guidelines and procedure ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php" class="">http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7</a> ========================================================== Authors' guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php" class="">http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php</a> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. 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