Quality and User Experience - Call for Papers: Intelligent Environments and User Experience

AIMS AND SCOPE

Intelligent Environments (IE) refer to physical spaces in which Information Technologies (IT) are pervasively utilized for the benefits of the users when caring out their activities in these spaces, by enriching the resulting experience, better managing the environment assets and more easily achieving their goals. From a computing science perspective, IE must exploit rich combinations of small, distributed sensing/computational nodes to identify and deliver personalized services to the user when they are interacting and exchanging information with and through the environment. This calls for understanding what influences the experience of the involved users and designing new ways of interacting with them; this also requires the IE to be able to perceive and understand the physical and virtual worlds, design living spaces, and finally make easy the life of humans with artificial agents. IE have a large area of applications including well-being, education, working environment, energy management, AAL, among others. However, this spreading of IE in many areas, including the public space, must be accompanied by high human interface quality standards. Indeed, as good as such technology is, a poor interface design or bad user experience may result in not only users avoiding its usage but also bad or mistaken usages without explicit consent of the user. Worse, such mistakes may lead to personal data leakage or physical accidents. Solutions for improving the quality of user experience in intelligent environments are thus mandatory for full adoption of such technology in our daily life. The goal of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art research that addresses new research challenges on adaptation, sensing, human interaction, and user experience in intelligent environments.

TOPICS COVERED

The topics include but are not limited to:

Human-centric Ambient intelligenceSmart buildings for humansPersonal Digital Assistants for IEQuality-aware resource management in IEQuality dimensions in IEIE for home, work and educationContext awarenessExperience sensing and design in IEHCIRobot-Human InteractionUser experienceVirtual/Augmented/Mixed realityArchitecture and interaction designUser experience in smart citiesUser experience in smart transportationsQuality for IEHuman experience in IE

Notes for Authors

Contributions must be at least 12 pages in length. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Conference papers may be submitted if the paper has been rewritten and expanded to at least 30% (justifications to be included in the cover letter), and, when appropriate, written permissions must have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper.

Peer review Process: Content published in this journal is peer reviewed (Single Blind). Single-blind peer review is a conventional method of peer review where the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers know who the authors are.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 Please refer to the given link for submission guidelines: https://www.springer.com/journal/41233/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab)

 IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscript Submission due date: May 31, 2023

Please submit your paper by May 31, 2023 through the online Editorial Management System: https://www.editorialmanager.com/quex (this opens in a new tab). If you are a new user, please create a login and password. During submission, do not forget to select that your paper is for the special issue entitled “Intelligent Environments and User Experience.”

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

Professor Yuichi ITOH (Lead Guest Editor), Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan (itoh@it.aoyama.ac.jp (this opens in a new tab))
Professor Guillaume LOPEZ, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan (guillaume@it.aoyama.ac.jp (this opens in a new tab))
Professor Paulo NOVAIS, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt (this opens in a new tab))
Professor (Associate) Luigi ATZORI, University of Cagliari, Italy (l.atzori@unica.it (this opens in a new tab))