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Cognition, Technology & Work - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Distributed Cognition and Agile Teamwork

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The socio-cultural context as well as the artifacts characterizing a collaborative environment may be considered as proper, constitutive parts of a distributed cognitive system. (Hollan, Hutchins, Kirsh 2000).

The basic idea underlying Distributed Cognition is that collaborating people and their artifacts can engage in richly scaffolded, environmentally-involving partnerships to enhance their cognitive profiles and to master sophisticated problems that they would not be able to solve on their own, in the absence of such bi-directional partnerships (Kiverstein, Farina, Clark 2013).

Research on Distributed Cognition is typically motivated by the observation that many important cognitive activities are often deeply entrenched in concrete social practices. Such cognitive activities are then intrinsically socio-cultural and -moreover- even materially distributed phenomena.  

To date, the distributed approach to cognition has been successfully used to study collaborative work practices in a number of different fields and domains (such as cognitive ecologies and material culture (Knappett 2011); human agency (Malafouris 2013) and human memories (Michaelian and Sutton 2013); traffic control, ship navigation, and airplane cockpits (Hutchins 1995); call centres (Halverson 2002), software teams (Sharp, Giuffrida, Melnik 2012), and human computer interaction (Hollan et al. 2000).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

In this special issue we would like to further explore the relevance and significance of Distributed Cognition for Agile Teamwork. We thus invite the submission of high-quality papers describing original and significant work in all areas at the intersection of distributed cognition, agile methodologies, software design and team management, including but not limited to:

  • Distributed Cognition and Agile Methodologies 
  • Distributed Cognition and Communication Distributed Cognition and User Experience
  • Distributed Cognition and Management of Teamwork
  • Analysis of agile teams’ cognitive systems
  • Cooperative problem solving in Agile Teams Pair/Mob Programming and Cognitive Performance
  • Distributed cognition and activity theory for agile practices

The evaluation of papers will be based on:

  • Underlying methodological soundness and rigor
  • Novelty of the work
  • The quality of the reporting
  • Strength of empirical evaluation/basis
  • Significance and reproducibility of the results

Other possible Submission Topics:

  • Distributed cognition and team building for agile developments
  • Distributed cognition and agile coaching
  • Distributed cognition and activity theory for storytelling constructs
  • Distributed cognition and agile remote collaboration
  • Distributed cognition theory for scaled agile models
  • Agile communication models based on distributed cognition
  • Analysis of agile software tools based on distributed cognition
  • Distributed cognition for agile ceremonies (i.e. planning meetings, daily scrums, review meetings, retrospective meetings)

TENTATIVE SI TIMELINE:

  • Submission Extended Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2022
  • Submission Full Paper Deadline: August 30, 2022
  • First Round Review Due: October 1, 2022
  • Publication: January 2023

GUEST EDITOR DETAILS:

Paolo Ciancarini, (University of Bologna, Italy)
Email: paolo.ciancarini@unibo.it (this opens in a new tab) 

Mirko Farina, (Innopolis University, Russian Federation)
Email: m.farina@innopolis.ru (this opens in a new tab)

Giancarlo Succi (Innopolis University, Russian Federation) 
Email: g.succi@innopolis.ru (this opens in a new tab)

PEER REVIEW PROCESS:

The Review Process will be conducted in accordance with the best norms of the discipline and in line with the recommendations outlined by Springer

Authors will submit their papers to the appropriate Special Issue (entitled, "Special Issue: Distributed Cognition and Agile Teamwork") via: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ctwo/ (this opens in a new tab). The submitted papers will then be available within the online system for the Editors to send out for peer review. If a paper does not meet the criteria required for the Special Issue, the Editors may reject the paper without external peer review or ask the authors for further revisions to be made prior to review.

The peer review of each paper is carried out in the normal manner via the journal’s online submission and peer review system by the Editors or by experts in the area (contacted by the Editors). Once reviews are returned the Editors will need to take a provisional decision and this will be communicated to the Editorial Office.  As articles start to be accepted the Editors will start preparing an introductory article (which will be original and not previously published) to be submitted no later than 3 weeks after the acceptance of the last article in the issue. This introduction should set the scene and provide the premise for the special issue referencing the articles included within. As each article is accepted it will be published and be citable as an Article in Press until the full Special Issue is accepted and complete. Authors will be sent proofs to check during this time. The Editors-in-Chief will adjudicate on any disagreements that arise during the editorial process.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Papers should be submitted through the Cognition, Technology, and Work ‘s editorial manager website: (https://www.springer.com/journal/10111/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab))

For formatting guidelines as well as submission instructions, please consult the site abovementioned

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