International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A. N. 19 special issue on: 'Games for learning' (guest editors: Kostas Karpouzis, Ginevra Castellano, Rilla Khaled, Evangelia Dimaraki)

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

IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors
IxD&A Journal, issue N. 19 - ToC
Alex Frazer, Alejandra Recio-Saucedo, Lester Gilbert, Gary Wills 'Profiling the Educational Value of Computer Games', pp. 9 - 27
Michael Sailer, Jan Hense, Heinz Mandl, Markus Klevers 'Psychological Perspectives on Motivation through Gamification', pp. 28 - 37
Claudia Schrader 'The Relation between Virtual Presence and Learning Outcomes in Serious Games - The Mediating Effect of Motivation', pp. 38 - 46
Félix Buendía-García & Sol García-Martínez 'Designing Serious Games for getting transferable skills in training settings', pp. 47 - 62
Troy D. Abel & Michael Evans 'Cross-disciplinary Participatory & Contextual Design Research: Creating a Teacher Dashboard Application', pp. 63 - 76
Lori L. Scarlatos, Micha Tomkiewicz, Ryan Courtney 'Using an Agent-Based Modeling Simulation and Game to Teach Socio-Scientific Topics', pp. 77 - 90
Giannis Altanis, Michalis Boloudakis, Symeon Retalis, Nikos Nikou 'Children with Motor Impairments Play a Kinect Learning Game: First Findings from a Pilot Case in an Authentic Classroom Environment', pp. 91 - 104
Reinhold Behringer, Roderick King, Abraham Smith, Jamie Matu, Andrew King, Bengamin Taylor, Parichay Parivesh 'The Virtual Runner Learning Game', pp. 105 - 114
Hiran B. Ekanayake, Per Backlund, Tom Ziemke, Robert Ramberg, Kamalanath P. Hewagamage, and Mikael Lebram 'Comparing Expert and Novice Driving Behavior in a Driving Simulator', pp. 115 - 131

Next issue, N. 20, will be dedicated to 'People Centered Smart Territories: Design, Learning and Analytics' (guest editors: Gianni Dominici & Carlo Giovannella) and will include selected contributions presented at Smart City Exhibition 2013.

Still open the submission of contributions for special issue N. 21 on: 'Design for children and older people - Educating the Next Generation of Designers' (guest editors: Eva Eriksson, Olof Torgersson, Caterina Calefato, Chiara Ferrarini)

Important dates:
- 30 May -> deadline for paper submission
- 30 June -> notification of acceptance/rejection
- end of July -> special issue publication

for more information see the call: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&lin...

Please submit your paper using the IxD&A submission System at: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php
Paper (max 14 pages) should be written according to the IxD&A format, see: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7

We also invite submission of original contributions as regular papers (full, short, position and review papers).
All submissions will undergo a standard peer review process.