Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1997. It covers original research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, and handheld, wearable and mobile information devices, with a focus on user experience and interaction design issues. The journal publishes a mixture of issues themed on specific topics, or organised around scientific workshops, and original research papers.
Google Scholar reports the h-index as 36 (h-median:57). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.498 (5-year IF 1.461).
PUC has a team of 23 Editors and an editorial board of 26 academic and commercial researchers. The editor-in-chief is Peter Thomas (Manifesto Group). The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Peter Thomas Manifesto Group / Brunel University / The Leasing Foundation
EDITORS
Stephen Brewster University of Glasgow, UK
Anind K. Dey Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hans-W. Gellersen Lancaster University, UK
Lars Erik Holmquist Södertörn University, Sweden
Matt Jones University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Jofish Kaye, Yahoo Labs, US
Chris Schmandt MIT Media Lab, US
Rob Macredie Brunel University, UK
Phil Stenton BBC, UK
Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham, UK
Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Alexandra Weilenmann, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
Li Bo, Samsung Research America
Emilia Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine, USA
Mark Dunlop University of Glasgow, UK
Mikael Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden
Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
EDITORIAL BOARD
Bert Arnrich, Bogazici University, Turkey
Tilde Bekker, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Victoria Bellotti, Xerox PARC, USA
Rongfang Bie, Beijing Normal University, China
Mark Billinghurst, University of Washington, USA
Jose Bravo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Luca Chittaro, Universita di Udine, Italy
Paul Dourish, University of California, USA
Gheorghita Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
Karamjit S. Gill, University of Wales, Newport, UK
Kostas Karpouzis, University of the Aegean, Greece
James Katz, Bellcore, USA
Richard Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Telenor R&D, Norway
Patti Maes, MIT Media Laboratory, USA
Tom Martin, Virginia Tech, USA
Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich Inst Informationssyteme, Switzerland
John McCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland
Jose M. Noguera, University of Jaen, Spain
Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea
Reza Rawassizadeh, Dartmouth College, UK
Boon-Chong Seet, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Elhadi M Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan
Harold Thimbleby, UCC, UK
Chai-Wen Tsai, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Bieke Zaman, KU Leuven - iMINDS, Belgium
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, Academic Search, Compendex, Computer Science Index, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Digital Bibliography & Library Project, Ergonomics Abstracts, Inspec, io-port.net, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus.