An Open Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Journal of Urban Affairs on “Human Dynamics in Smart and Connected Communities”
Special Issue Guest Editors: Daniel Sui, Ohio State University, USA (Sui.10@osu.edu) & Shih‐Lung Shaw, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (sshaw@utk.edu)
Abstracts due: July 15, 2017
Aims and Scope
Advancements in location‐aware technology, information and communication technology (ICT), and mobile technology during the past two decades have continued to transform our cities and urban life in profound and unexpected ways, with concomitant changes in spatial and temporal relationships of human activities, behaviors, and movements. In the meantime, detailed data of individual activities and interactions are being collected at an unprecedented spatial and temporal granularity level by vendors (e.g., online searches and purchases, retail store transactions), service providers (e.g., phone companies, banks), social media services (Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, etc.), and government agencies. These big datasets contain useful information for us to better understand human dynamics in both physical and virtual spaces. These diverse datasets have provided urban scholars in multiple disciplines new opportunities to study issues of urban affairs with much improved spatial and temporal granularity. Building on a series of paper sessions organized at 2017 AAG meetings in Boston and an Open Call for Papers, this special issue will bring together leading scholars in related disciplines to share their research on challenges and solutions of studying human dynamics in the mobile and big data era with a focus on smart and connected communities.
Possible Topics (not exhaustive)
This special issue will place an emphasis on the development of research frameworks, theories, methods and good case studies of tackling key research challenges related to the research of smart and connected communities. Sample topics include:
- Development of smart and connected communities in the mobile age
- Digital divide and social inequality
- The future of work in smart and connected communities
- Digital divide and sampling issue in human dynamics research
- Space‐time data models for studying human dynamics
- Privacy issues in mobile and big data and possible solutions
- The environmental implications and sustainability of smart and connected communities
- Multi‐scale spatiotemporal analysis and modeling of human dynamics
- Spatiotemporal analysis of human activities in physical and virtual spaces
- Spatial agent‐based models of human‐environment interactions
- Uncovering human dynamics hidden in different kinds of big tracking data
- Spatiotemporal diffusion of innovation and ideas geo‐targeted social media analytics and visualization methods
- Trajectory data mining, analysis, and visualization.
- Spatiotemporal social network analysis
- Data sharing and dissemination in human dynamics research
If you are not sure whether your potential contribution might fit the scope of this special issue, please get in touch with one of the guest editors.
Submission procedure:
Interested authors should notify the guest editors of their intention to submit a paper contribution by sending the title and a 250 word abstract to Daniel Sui (sui.10@osu.edu) and Shih-Lung Shaw (sshaw@utk.edu) by July 15, 2017. The deadline for submissions of the final papers is September 15, 2017.
A condition of submission and acceptance is that papers must pass the normal Journal of Urban Affairs review process. For author instructions, please refer to “Instructions for Authors” at the Journal of Urban Affairs homepage. All manuscripts, including support materials, must be submitted using the journal’s online submission process. Please select the correct special issue in the submission process and indicate this special issue as the target issue. First‐time users of the online submission site must register themselves as an Author. For questions, please contact Daniel Sui (sui.10@osu.edu) or Shih-Lung Shaw (sshaw@utk.edu).
Important dates:
Title and an abstract of no more than 250 words due: July 15, 2017
Full paper submission to the JUA website: September 15, 2017
Initial decision on full papers: November 15, 2017
Revised paper submission to the JUA website: December 15, 2017
Paper acceptance notification: February 15, 2018
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