JVIB 2012 Special Issue on Technology: Today's Game Changer
I'm very excited to be a guest editor with the awesome Donna McNear on next year's special technology issue of the Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness. JVIB is the peer-reviewed journal of record in the field of vision loss, and a past tech issue in 2003 featured my article, In the Palm of Your Hand, a vision of what mobile devices would mean for blind people in the future (a future that has already happened, of course!).
Donna and I are looking for forward looking articles that will inform the field of what might happen in the future. Technology is advancing at such a pace that so many topics are possible, but to just name a few:
The deadline for submissions is in January 31, 2012,and the call for papers is here. Help us make this a terrific issue!
Donna and I are looking for forward looking articles that will inform the field of what might happen in the future. Technology is advancing at such a pace that so many topics are possible, but to just name a few:
- Mobile (what might happen next!?)
- Web infrastructure and accessibility of/through the cloud
- The power of free
- New technology for giving blind people the ability to tackle tasks that used to require vision
- Convergence between mainstream technology and assistive technology
- Novel and/or innovative applications of technology for teaching and education
- Novel and/or innovative applications of technology in the workplace
- What technology advances mean for the future of Braille
- And so many other possibilities!
The deadline for submissions is in January 31, 2012,and the call for papers is here. Help us make this a terrific issue!
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