Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal Special Issue
We have a special issue of the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. It's on 'performative interactions', by which we mean interactions with digital technologies that happen in public places, or where there is some potential for these interactions to 'become a spectacle' in some way.
From the introductory article:
Interactive digital technologies pervade our shared spaces in personal, mobile, infrastructural and other embedded forms. These changes challenge the ways we understand and investigate the relationships between people, computing and settings. Responding to this situation—where ubiquitous computing is not only personal but also public, and where digital interactions may happen anywhere—this special issue explores how HCI research can use the strengths of an intersection of theory, practice and innovation in order to best address this conjunction of interactive technologies, public spaces and people interacting with or within both.