<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif; font-size:small; color:rgb(11,83,148)"> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Call for Papers Special Issue on Smart Toys, Smart Tangibles, Robots and other Smart Things for Children in the International Journal of Child Computer Interaction Guest Editors Cristina Sylla, Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), ITI/LARSyS, University of Minho, Portugal Alejandro Catala, Research Centre on Intelligent Technologies (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Computer Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) Lab, Switzerland Pirita Ihamäki, Prizztech Ltd., Finland Katriina Heljakka, University of Turku, Finland Special Issue Description The world of children’s toys has continued to evolve with advances in embedded electronics, digital capabilities, and wireless connectivity. Smart toys, and robots represent an increasingly vibrant range of play objects that combine different capabilities such as networking, processing and intelligent reasoning. These interactive objects posit a growing and promising form of technology capable of sensing and processing data in real-time during CCI. The increasing uses of those interactive objects in CCI and the rise of data-driven methods and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques reinforce intelligent features and adaptivity, but also brings with it many important privacy issues and concerns. This special issue aims at digging into the research challenges concerned with interaction design of smart toys, tangibles, robots and other smart things for children, with a special emphasis on interactive intelligent features and their design and effects on interactions. We welcome and encourage researchers in this cross-disciplinary field to submit original research articles reporting experiments, case studies, reviews, as well as theoretical work investigating the role of smart objects for children. In particular, review contributions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: · Smart Toys, Robots and design of interactive intelligent features · Children Interaction with Smart Devices · AI-powered devices and data-driven interactions · User expectations of smart technologies · Creative Technologies and Innovative Interactive Content for smart and intelligent devices · Design of activities with smart play · Meaningful play and learning experiences · Design methods and methodologies · Privacy issues and concerns · Costs, benefits and consequences of intelligent features and devices such as sustainability · Future trends and directions in the field To prepare your manuscript, please, follow the guide for authors provided by Elsevier: <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-child-computer-interaction/2212-8689/guide-for-authors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-child-computer-interaction/2212-8689/guide-for-authors</a> Please submit at: <a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijcci/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijcci/default.aspx</a> Please select "VSI: Smart Toys when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Timeline · Deadline for abstract submissions (optional but recommended): 10 September 2020 · Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 September 2020 · Feedback Reviews: 15 December 2020 · Paper Resubmission: 25 January 2021 · Each article will be published upon acceptance, expected publication date: first quarter 2021 For questions, please contact: <a href="mailto:cristina.sylla@ie.uminho.pt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">cristina.sylla@ie.uminho.pt</a> <a href="mailto:alejandro.catala@usc.es" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">alejandro.catala@usc.es</a> <a href="mailto:arzu.guneysu@epfl.ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">arzu.guneysu@epfl.ch</a> </div> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div> <div id="Signature"> <div> <div> <table style="font-size:9pt; color:#444444"> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="4" style="padding-right:5px"> <div> <table style="font-size:9pt; color:#444444"> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="4" style="padding-right:5px"><a href="http://citius.usc.es/"><img class="EmojiInsert" alt="CiTIUS" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:f4c8c5b2-58c4-4aed-bc1c-e4af2824587e"></a></td> <td><a href="http://citius.usc.es/v/alejandro.catala" style="color:#222222">Alejandro Catalá</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Researcher/Investigador Juan de la Cierva</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="mailto:alejandro.catala@usc.es"><img class="EmojiInsert" alt="E-mail:" width="11" height="11" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:3567ed3d-86ba-4998-bb10-281a7f319110"> alejandro.catala@usc.es</a> · <img class="EmojiInsert" alt="Phone:" width="11" height="11" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:6938ad88-08b2-4d67-bc9d-17f8d12b6cef"> +34 881816460</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://citius.usc.es"><img class="EmojiInsert" alt="Website:" width="11" height="11" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:f03217c9-c4d1-44df-9a04-ed13f3531978"> citius.usc.es</a> · <a href="http://twitter.com/acatalaHCI"><img class="EmojiInsert" alt="Twitter:" width="11" height="11" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:c09bb7a5-d010-402f-a2f6-e4036ad2392b"> acatalaHCI</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>