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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Frontiers in Computer Science –
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Research<span style="color:black"> Topic</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Deadline 30 November 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">As our planned workshop at DIGRA 2020 was cancelled due to concerns over the corona virus we have arranged for the publication of an
open access special topic in the journal Frontiers in Computer Science on the theme of the workshop and are now renewing the call for submissions to additional authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">For further information and submission instructions see: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13289/urban-play-and-the-playable-city-a-critical-perspective"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13289/urban-play-and-the-playable-city-a-critical-perspective</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">About this Research Topic</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Cities by their very nature are utilitarian creations built to support the needs and/or represent the image of the communities
that build them. However, the nature of the urban environment is such that it invites play in both its construction (architecture) and the interactions that take place within its confines. Thus, in addition to opportunities for structured and unstructured
play offered by the playgrounds, ball courts, and game boards constructed by municipalities, a host of games and playful activities that repurpose or harness the city infrastructure for play have emerged. These range from games such as hide and seek or tag
that harness the physical features of the immediate surroundings of the players either with the incorporation of interactive technology such as <i>Picoo</i>or without, through games such as <i>Multiplayer Soba</i>that build on the concept of a treasure hunt
to challenge players to engage and interact with the local community in a particular area of a city to games such as <i>Pokémon Go</i>and <i>The Walking Dead: Our World</i> that use the entire city as their playground.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Recently the notion of the playable city has emerged as a counterpoint to the “smart city” where by the array of sensors
and actuators that enable smart city infrastructure can be harnessed to create novel interactions and playful experiences within the city by lending an ear to trees, giving a voice to park benches, stairs and garbage cans or reviving the shadows that pass
in the night thereby enabling a host of new interactions and experiences and raising new challenges and concerns about distraction and duplicity.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Building on three previous workshops that focused specifically on the notion of the playable city and that were held as
part of Intetain 2016, Intetain 2017 and ArtsIT 2018, in this workshop we wish to expand the scope of the inquiry and compare and contrast the notions of urban play and the playable city while exploring current innovations and the future potential of the ideas
and technologies involved. To this end we seek to invite practitioners and researchers to submit position papers which will serve as the basis for further discussion and analysis with the aim of publishing a collection of papers in an edited volume or a special
issue of a Journal as a means of furthering the discussion and fostering a long-term relationship between the participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Play
in the city – reimagining the playground and the notion of urban play<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Play
with (and hack into) the city – incorporating play and playfulness into the very fabric of the (smart) city<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Play
for the city – using play and gamification to address urban issues from infrastructure maintenance to social and environmental issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Are
we playing with the city or being played with? Critical perspectives on the notion of the playable city<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Wearable
technology and the (smart) city </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The
autonomous vehicle as a mobile playground or an urban plaything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Interactive
street art, augmented storytelling and other forms of urban “play”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Manuscript Deadline: 30
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">November<span style="color:black"> 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Editors</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Yoram Chisik, Independent Scholar, Haifa, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Ben Schouten, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Mattia Thibault, University of Tampere, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">For further information see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13289/urban-play-and-the-playable-city-a-critical-perspective"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13289/urban-play-and-the-playable-city-a-critical-perspective</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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