Call for papers - New Deadline

Guest editors: Sara Goldchmit (USP) and Daniel Raposo (IPCB)

This Special Issue of the journal InfoDesign invites contributions that explore the relationship between information design and health in its diverse and often complex contexts. As reinforced by COVID-19 pandemic, information design is both essential and challenging to the healthcare sector in empowering users to better access, visualize, understand, memorize, and engage with health information to ultimately enhance quality of life. We are looking for papers about information design approaches to address societal challenges in health and wellbeing, such as improving the accessibility and understanding of information in education, prescribing, diagnosis and monitoring of diseases, as well as awareness raising. This issue invites high quality original articles relevant to all aspects of information design in the context of health and wellbeing, that contribute to theory, research, practice, and education.

Authors are invited to submit full papers following InfoDesign guidelines, available HERE. For this special issue, we will accept manuscripts written in English only. Relevant reviews and interviews related to the topic of this special issue are also welcome.

All manuscripts must be submitted via InfoDesign submission system.

New deadline for submission: 20th May 2022

The editors of this special issue will be happy to discuss manuscript proposals prior to submission. They can be contacted via email <saragold@usp.br> <draposom@gmail.com>.