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*N. 27 *special issue on:

"*Smart City Learning: Opportunities and Challenges*"
(guest editors: /Paloma Diaz, Monica Divitini, Fernando Ramos/)
including a /focus section/ on
"*Innovation in Human Computer Interaction: What can we learn from 
Design Thinking?*"
(guest editors: /Alma Leora Culén and Asbjørn Følstad/)

is now available for free downloading:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=ToC_27_P
see "ToC" below.

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/IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no 
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*IxD&A Journal, issue N. 27 - ToC*

• /Preface/
by Paloma Diaz, Monica Divitini, Fernando Ramos, pp. 3 - 5

• Dominik Bork, Hans-Georg Fill, Dimitris Karagiannis, Elena-Teodora 
Miron, Nikolaos Tantouris, Michael Walch
/Conceptual Modelling for Smart Cities: A Teaching Case, pp. 10  - 27,
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• Francesco Gianni and Monica Divitini
/Technology-enhanced Smart City Learning: a Systematic Mapping of the 
Literature, pp. 28 - 43/

• Nuala Hunt, Michael O’Grady, Conor Muldoon, Barnard Kroon, Tomi 
Rowlands, Jie Wan, Gregory O’Hare
/Citizen Science: A Learning Paradigm for the Smart City?, pp. 44 - 65/

• Sobah Abbas Petersen, Grazia Concilio, Manuel Oliveira
/Smart Neighbourhood Learning - the case of MyNeighbourhood, pp. 66 - 78/

• Carlo Giovannella, Diana Andone, Mihai Dascalu, Elvira Popescu, 
Matthias Rehm, Giuseppe Roccasalva
/Smartness of Learning Ecosystems and its bottom-up emergence in six 
European Campuses, pp. 79 - 92
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• Chien Wen Yuan, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Sooyeon Lee, John M. Carroll
/Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with 
Visual Impairment, pp. 93 - 106/

*/Focus Section/*

• /Preface to the Focus Section/
by Alma Leora Culén and Asbjørn Følstad, pp. 109 - 114

• Ingrid Mulder
/A pedagogical framework and a transdisciplinary design approach to 
innovate HCI education, pp 115 - 128/

• Sumit Pandey
/Proto Design Practice: translating design thinking practices to 
organizational settings, pp. 129 - 158/

• Anna Thies
/On the Value of Design Thinking for Innovation in Complex Contexts: A 
Case from Healthcare , pp. 159 - 171/

*/Regular Papers/*

• Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo, Annie Sungkajun, Tiffany Sanchez, Jinkyo Suh
/Touchology: Peripheral Interactive Plant Design for Well-being, pp 175 
- 187/

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• *Next issue, N. 28*, will be dedicated to

'Mobile learning and Special Education'
Guest Editors: Peña L. Bedesem, Enrico Gandolfi, Richard E. Ferdig,  C. 
C. Lu

/and will contain a focus section on:
/'Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems'
Guest Editors: Nadja DeCarolis, Marco de Gemmis, Andrej Košir e Marko 
Tkalcic

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• *Open submissions: special issue N. 29*

'The Social Innovation capacity of Open Education and Learning'
Guest Editors: Carlo Giovannella & Demetrios Sampson
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call29
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with a focus section on:
/"Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users, Usage, 
Circumstances, and Design"
Guest Editors: Alina Krischkowsky, Nervo Verdezoto, Manfred Tscheligi/, 
/Michael Muller
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call29fs

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forthcoming issues:

• Autumn 2016
'On Making'
Guest Editors: Joep Frens, Bart Hengeveld, Pierry Levy, Patrizia Marti
/with a focus section on:/
'Player and Learner eXperience'
Guest Editors: Monica Divitini, Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari


• Winter 2016
'Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development'
Guest Editors: Alke Martens, Radu Vasiu, Annika Wolff

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