<br clear="all"><div><div>================================================================</div><div>Call-for-Papers from special issue at</div><div><br></div><div>Computers in Human Behavior</div><div>(SSCI journal published by Elsevier)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Special Issue title</div><div>- Digital Creativity: New Frontier for Research and Practice -</div><div><br></div><div>Guest Editor: Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul/South Korea)</div>
<div>Contact email address: <a href="mailto:center.iis@gmail.com" target="_blank">center.iis@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div>Paper submission for review: March 31, 2013 </div><div>First Review results: April 30, 2013</div>
<div>Revised paper submission: May 31, 2013</div><div>Final acceptance decision: June 30, 2013</div><div>Manuscript delivery to publisher: July 15, 2013</div><div>===================================================================================</div>
<div><br></div><div>Special issue entitled "Digital Creativity: New Frontier for Research and Practice" is now being arranged at the journal Computers in Human Behavior, which is listed in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) by Thomson Reuters. Detailed information about the journal CHB (Computers in Human Behavior) can be found at <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-human-behavior" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-human-behavior</a>. The 5-year impact factor of CHB is 2.476. So prospect authors working on the digital creativity-related topics as exemplified in the below are cordially invited to submit their papers to this exciting special issue. Any inquiries about this special issue are welcomed, and expected to be sent to the contact email address of the guest editor. Detailed information about this special issue is described in the following. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OVERVIEW</div><div>It is clear that we are living in the ubiquitous computing era in which all kinds of mobile and ubiquitous devices such as smart phones and sophisticated laptop computers are transforming our daily lives into so-called digital lives. The ubiquity supported by them is destined to change our creativity related activities in companies and homes as well as in our personal lives. The concept of creativity spans a multitude of domains; from art to science, literature to business and beyond. Current definitions of creativity (e.g. scientific or organizational) typically describe the construct as involving “the generation of novel behavior that meets a standard of quality or utility”. Traditionally, creativity research was performed in the context of case studies, survey analyses and anecdotal approaches. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As digital innovation catalyzed by ubiquitous computing technologies quickly permeated our daily lives, however, creativity started to take a new shape called “digital creativity” – a construct formulated when we are using modern computing technologies on computers for any purpose. In other words, digital creativity can be easily experienced and observed when we use computers for various purposes such as playing online games, communicating with others through social networking sites, making digital animation and music, designing a building with special design software, analyzing data with statistical and/or specialized AI software, manufacturing products and even writing papers with word processor. It therefore cannot be overstated that our daily lives, organizations and relationships are governed by digital creativity to considerable extents. Surprisingly, however, most of research issues related to digital creativity such as how it unfolds in a specific context, when its outcomes are maximized and which patterns it shows along time in specific situations still remain unexplored to date. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This special issue assumes that digital creativity and its influence are reshaping individuals, teams and modern organizations. Creativity has been a research target for many years in the field of organizational researchers. As digital technologies like the internet become an established norm for communications, work and entertainment, the conventional definition of creativity must be redefined and reinterpreted from the perspective of ubiquitous computing technology. Through using a wide variety of computing devices and technologies, individuals can easily cultivate their own creativity that has remained untouched and under stimulated for years. Those individuals, who in the past had to idle with mediocre things and live isolated from a more brilliant culture and people, are now enabled to nourish themselves with a variety of rich information that can be obtained from borderless and limitless digital worlds powered by ubiquitous computing devices and technologies. Those organizations, who before the ubiquitous era had to work within their own limits and communicate with outside teams only in a very limited form, can now work in a literally networked fashion, connecting to other teams and persons and organizations through the digital networks which are operated by ubiquitous computing power. Organizations can also connect with other organizations via computing technologies for the purpose of mutually agreeable collaboration. Now is the time for individuals, teams and organizations to pursue digital creativity and increase their performance as well as their satisfaction. </div>
<div><br></div><div>TOPICS</div><div>Both researchers and practitioners who are interested in digital creativity are strongly encouraged to submit their papers on this issue. The submitted papers should cover innovative aspects of digital creativity research through applying integrative advantages of ubiquitous computing technologies to real creativity issues. Papers with novel models, simulation and empirical studies are welcomed. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Conceptual framework for investigating digital creativity itself (discussion from multiple perspectives is welcomed)</div><div>Empirical studies showing significant contribution of digital creativity in IT-dominated fields like mobile business, ubiquitous decision support, health informatics, HCI, online games, e-learning, etc, to name a few</div>
<div>Relationships between individual creativity, team creativity and organizational creativity</div><div>Computational studies about the digital creativity (such as agent-based methods, intelligent techniques, etc)</div>
<div>The balance between exploration and exploitation in order to improve digital creativity</div><div>How to transform teams and organizations into ambidextrous ones from the perspective of improving digital creativity</div>
<div>Influence of various factors (i.e., heterogeneity, task complexity, culture, motivation, learning capability, etc) on digital creativity </div><div>Digital creativity and its role in human-robot interaction (HRI)</div>
<div>Neuroscience approach to analyzing digital creativity</div><div>Miscellaneous topics only if they are related to digital creativity </div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to contact guest editor when you are not certain about the suitability of your topics with this special issue.</div>
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<div>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND EDITORIAL COMMUNICATIONS:</div><div><br></div><div>Manuscripts submitted to this special issue should be original, not previously published in nor submitted to other journals. Manuscripts should be submitted to the CHB electronic editorial systems (EES), which is accessible at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/chb/" target="_blank">http://ees.elsevier.com/chb/</a>. Be sure to select your article type from "SI: Digital Creativity" in EES, where your paper will be handled properly by the guest editor of this special issue. All submissions should conform to the journal CHB’s author guidelines, which are available online at <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-in-human-behavior/0747-5632/guide-for-authors" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-in-human-behavior/0747-5632/guide-for-authors</a>. Any inquiries about this special issue ought to be sent to the guest editor.</div>
<div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div>Paper submission for review: March 31, 2013 </div><div>First Review results: April 30, 2013</div><div>Revised paper submission: May 31, 2013</div><div>Final acceptance decision: June 30, 2013</div>
<div>Manuscript delivery to publisher: July 15, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>GUEST EDITOR</div><div>Prof. Kun Chang Lee</div><div>SKK Business School and Department of Interaction Science</div><div>Sungkyunkwan Ro 25-2, Chong No-Ku</div>
<div>Sungkyunkwan University</div><div>Seoul 110-745, Republic of Korea</div><div>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:center.iis@gmail.com" target="_blank">center.iis@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div>