Aims and Scope

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing publishes peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary human-centred research, focusing on personal and ubiquitous technologies and services. Domains of interest include, among others: mobile, wearable and implanted computing; entertainment technologies; extended reality; social computing technologies and social impact; and the responsible use of AI relating to these sorts of technologies and use cases.

It aims to provide insights for the design and implementation of human-centred systems that support personal and/or ubiquitous experiences involving novel interfaces, algorithms, devices and infrastructure. Therefore, all articles should have a strong human-centred, user and/or design perspective through studies that highlight, for example, design research, participatory design, ethnographic methods, applied responsible research approaches, or field user studies. Articles not in scope will be desk-rejected by the Editor in Chief.

As well as standard research articles, the journal publishes:

• Agenda Setting Articles: literature reviews that directly open up significant new research agendas,  perspectives or paradigms with a human-centred focus.
• Commentaries: extended reflections on one or more research articles (by the authors or others).
• Design Sketches (Pictorials): articles with extensive use of sketches, photographs, illustrations or collages that are integral to scaffold the communication of an original design research endeavour.
• Critical Debates on Research Culture: Critical articles that offer insights into the Research Culture and environment ecosystem, and related practices in HCI.
• Archaeologies and Speculative Futures for HCI: opinion pieces that seek to explain our past, present and future through the lens of things that have been or that might come to pass.