[AISWorld] Electronic Markets - Deadline Extension - Call for Papers 'Ambient Assisted Living'

Thu Mar 11 15:10:48 EST 2010

Apologies for cross-postings.  

The deadline for this Call for Papers has been extended to March 27,
2010!

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Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the
upcoming issue Vol. 20, No. 4 of Electronic Markets with a focus theme
section on 'Ambient Assisted Living'. 

We cordially invite original research contributions to the focus theme
or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from
all potential authors. Please note that general research articles can be
submitted anytime whereas focus theme articles have to be submitted by
the deadline shown in the CfP.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.

If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics
please contact the editorial office (editors at electronicmarkets.org
<mailto:editors at electronicmarkets.org> ).

With best regards,

Karen Heyden

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Call for Papers 
for the Focus Theme Section on 

'Ambient Assisted Living'

Guest Editors:

    * Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Campus Berlin

    * Jan Marco Leimeister, University of Kassel

    * Douglas R. Vogel, City University of Hong Kong

The main objective of ambient assisted living (AAL) is to improve the
quality of life of elderly people appropriate to their respective
environment individually as well as sustainably. It is related to the
impact of current and future changes to aging demographics. Ambient
assisted living is mainly supported by mobile and ubiquitous computing
technologies enabling assisted living environments by offering
information and guidance in various scenarios. Such environments apply
ubiquitous, intelligent, pervasive, and unobtrusive computer systems
embedded into human environments, tailored to the individual's
context-aware needs. The internet of things and its related
technological shift builds the basis for a future filled with
interacting everyday smart objects offering a whole range of assisting
possibilities, e.g., ambient home care systems, personal health systems,
context-aware applications for patients with special needs, or
ubiquitous coaching strategies to promote behavioural modifications.
Consequently, industry has quietly begun setting its sights on the
corresponding business potentials. 

Currently, there are various projects underway often related to joint
programmes on the European and American level as well as on national
levels. The corresponding initiatives mainly aim at care management,
decision support and social interaction as well as technology aspects,
ethical issues and socio-economic aspects. Up to now most AAL-specific
solutions do not focus on the whole networked value chain neglecting
typical market mechanisms. The application of such technologies, e.g.,
smart objects or web-services, particularly from a business networking
point of view is a more or less young topic that is not comprehensively
elaborated yet. However,  technologies will inevitable lead to new
products and services. Solutions that embed elderly people in social
networks and solutions that facilitate them to communicate with family,
friends and care givers are just examples of innovations that foster new
business models and value chains. Various questions along the whole
networked value chain that directly lead to a new area of ubiquitous
commerce will arise.

The main objective of this focus theme section is to answer these
questions from a networked business point of view. It aims at concepts,
methods, tools, services, and cases addressing the socio-technical as
well as the socio-economic impact of ambient assisted living solutions.

-    How can AAL-specific solutions support individuals to enhance the
quality of their life?

-    Which new applications, technologies and services will emerge in
the next years?

-    How far will such solutions and/or technologies lead to new
networked business opportunities on the industrial as well as on the
service level?

-    Which user-centric factors (barriers, motivational factors, etc.)
influence adoption and diffusion processes?

Potential topics of interest that this focus theme section would address
include but are not limited to:

-    AAL-specific solutions: innovations and personal / electronic
services

-    Architectures and systems design

-    AAL-related service innovations and value chains

-    Service Models / Platforms and Tools

-    Standardisation activities and norms

-    Prototypes / Cases studies

-    Acceptance and adoption of AAL-specific solutions

-    Analysis on the user experience on AAL-specific solutions and
services

-    AAL-specific business models (industrial / services / electronic
markets)

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. 

All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic
Markets' publication standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism
(empirical or theoretical work, qualitative re-search, design science,
prototypes ...) is welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by March 27, 2010. All papers
must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would
like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact
the Editor for the focus theme section.

Contact addresses:

Markus.Bick at escpeurope.de 

Leimeister at uni-kassel.de

isdoug at cityu.edu.hk 

or editors at electronicmarkets.org

Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system.
Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:

* Submission deadline: March, 27, 2010 - NEW!

* Feedback to authors: May, 3, 2010

* Revision deadline: May, 27, 2010

* Acceptance decision: July, 1, 2010

* Issue: Vol. 20, No. 4, November 2010

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen

Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

Editorial Office:

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

c/o Information Systems Institute

University of Leipzig

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 9733600

Fax +49 341 9733612

E-mail: editors at electronicmarkets.org

http://www.electronicmarkets.org

Electronic Markets is published continuously online

and quarterly in print by Springer.

ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).

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