About the Journal

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is an international open-access journal, published in two regular issues annually, and further complemented by thematic issues dedicated to emerging or particularly relevant topics. The journal welcomes research on digital media and user experience within creative, cultural, and social contexts. It focuses on socio-technological challenges approached from a transdisciplinary perspective, drawing on fields such as media studies, interaction design, human-computer interaction, communication, cultural studies, design, and psychology.

Publishing
The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is published by the DigiMedia - Digital Media and Interaction Research Center. DigiMedia is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Aveiro focusing on research in interaction design, classified as Very Good by the national evaluation system. The journal adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.

The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is based on a model of Open Access (OA) publishing: free online access, free to read, free of charge (no Article Processing Charges - APC to authors), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license. In addition, it provides an open forum of discussion and monitoring of trends and transformations in the digital media landscape; the presentation of new design models and emergent technologies for the innovation of the user experience; the presentation of results from empirical studies and innovative research approaches.

Generative AI Policy
The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction supports transparency in the use of generative AI tools. AI cannot be listed as an author, and any significant use must be clearly disclosed. Full details of our policy are available here.

Electronic Backup and Preservation
All journal content is archived and preserved within the institutional repository infrastructure (PROA-UA) of the University of Aveiro. This guarantees long-term digital preservation and sustained access to the journal’s publications, even in the event of any interruption in regular publishing activities.