Call for Papers: “European Psychology of Human-computer Interaction”

Digitalization and the extensive changes it is having on people as individuals, groups, in organizations, or societies challenge psychology. Digitalization means technology and technologies mean designing them. Psychology can and must make a contribution here.

Human-computer interactions (HCI) today provide both conditions and content of human psychology, by acting as the digital environments that enable and intermingle human work, learning, and play domains. Early human factors work on aircraft sound locators built and used during the Great War (WWI) showed that national work styles influenced the design of how to operate these air defence systems (Bartlett, 1932). Today, the European context with its unique diversity of social and technical cultures calls for psychological inclusive and sustainable innovations for HCI (Clemmensen, 2024). This special issue aims to expose the many contributions of European HCI psychologists to HCI specifically and to psychology in general and with a focus on European HCI issues.