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Introduction to the Special Issue on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Technologies

Introduction to the Special Issue on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Technologies Interactive media have a fast growing social impact on current societies. While some technologies such as smartphones already enable us to experience new ways to interact in social environments, other technologies such as large scale multi touch surfaces, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality glasses, and intelligent software are at the verge of driving these experiences even further. This new type of social technologies includes both tools interacting with users themselves (e. g. social robots, virtual agents, assistance systems) and tools that facilitate the interaction between two or more users (e. g. tutor systems, multiplayer games, multi touch tables).These multifaceted topics in the context of human computer interaction combine expertise from different fields of research or disciplines concerned with human factors, social interaction, computer science, or engineering. While interdisciplinary approaches benefit from different perspectives on the respective technology, they often face conceptual, methodological, or even cultural challenges. Diverse strategies can be employed, both to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary research, and to minimize misunderstandings or problems. At the same time, successful cooperation can serve as showcases for best practices for future endeavors.Keeping these challenges in mind, authors from interdisciplinary research groups present their individual approaches in the context of social technologies in this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png i-com de Gruyter

Introduction to the Special Issue on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Technologies

Eibl, Maximilian; Ohler, Peter; Pietschmann, Daniel
i-com , Volume 14 (2): 2 – Aug 1, 2015
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10.1515/icom-2015-0035
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Interactive media have a fast growing social impact on current societies. While some technologies such as smartphones already enable us to experience new ways to interact in social environments, other technologies such as large scale multi touch surfaces, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality glasses, and intelligent software are at the verge of driving these experiences even further. This new type of social technologies includes both tools interacting with users themselves (e. g. social robots, virtual agents, assistance systems) and tools that facilitate the interaction between two or more users (e. g. tutor systems, multiplayer games, multi touch tables).These multifaceted topics in the context of human computer interaction combine expertise from different fields of research or disciplines concerned with human factors, social interaction, computer science, or engineering. While interdisciplinary approaches benefit from different perspectives on the respective technology, they often face conceptual, methodological, or even cultural challenges. Diverse strategies can be employed, both to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary research, and to minimize misunderstandings or problems. At the same time, successful cooperation can serve as showcases for best practices for future endeavors.Keeping these challenges in mind, authors from interdisciplinary research groups present their individual approaches in the context of social technologies in this

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