-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Announcing the publication of volume 13 issue 2 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 04:52:14 +0000 From: Nah, Fiona nahf@mst.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Announcing the Publication of Volume 13 Issue 2 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) (http://https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/)
THCI is ranked "A" in the 2019 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List - https://abdc.edu.au/research/abdc-journal-list/ with an acceptance rate of 7.61% (excluding special issues) in Year 2020.
The June 2021 issue of THCI comprises one editorial, three regular research papers, and one research commentary that is fast-tracked from a panel on Intelligence Augmentation at the 2020 International Conference of Information Systems. The editorial entitled "Virtual Reality for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Community Engagement to Enhance Risk Awareness" by Nancy Stone, Guirong Yan, Fiona Nah, Chaman Sabharwal, Kelsey Angle, Fred Hatch III, Steve Runnels, Vankita Brown, Gregory Schoor, and Christopher Engelbrecht showcases an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in Information Systems, Computer Science, Psychology, and Civil Engineering as well as involvement of the National Weather Service and Missouri Department of Transportation in developing virtual reality animations to enhance risk awareness of natural disasters and community engagement in taking protective actions.
The first research paper entitled "Does Supplementing IS Analysts' User Observations with Hands-on Training Help Them Better Understand Users' Work" by Shadi Shuraida and Henri Barki drew on Social Cognitive Theory and empirically assessed the efficacy of adding hands-on activities to observations in acquiring domain knowledge of users. The second research paper on "Co-design in mHealth Systems Development: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review" by Tyler Noorbergen, Marc Adam, Mark Roxburgh, and Timm Teubner provided an overview of methods used in co-design phases of mobile health systems. The third research paper entitled "Efficiency and Exposure: Reconciling the Effects of Website Browsing Behaviors for Non-transactional Outcomes" by Brian Dunn, Narayan Ramasubbu, Matthew Jensen, Dennis Galletta, and Paul Lowry tested two opposing theories by evaluating the effect of goal-directedness of tasks on the relationships between webpages viewed and brand attitude as well as between time spent and product knowledge retention.
Last but not least, the research commentary on "Intelligence Augmentation: Towards Building Human-Machine Symbiotic Relationship" by Lina Zhou, Souren Paul, Haluk Demirkan, Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan, Jim Spohrer, Michelle Zhou, and Julie Basu provided key research issues, challenges, and opportunities in using machine intelligence to augment human intelligence.
You can download the papers from this issue at https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/ or the direct links provided below. You can also download papers in THCI by visiting the AIS E-Library (http://aisel.aisnet.org/) or the journal website at http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/. ============
In this issue (Volume 13, Issue 2)
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Paper 1 (Editorial):
Stone, N. J., Yan, G., Nah, F. F.-H., Sabharwal, C., Angle, K., Hatch, F. E., Runnels, S., Brown, V., Schoor, G., & Engelbrecht, C. (2021). Virtual reality for hazard mitigation and community resilience: An interdisciplinary collaboration with community engagement to enhance risk awareness. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(2), pp. 130-144. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00145
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/1/ Abstract:
To achieve community resilience and mitigate the consequences of natural hazards, community officials must balance competing priorities for local resources and funding. Besides the challenge of dealing with multiple competing priorities, community officials face another challenge: low risk awareness of natural hazards by the public and other stakeholders. Considering that virtual reality (VR) has been used to enhance learning and to change attitudes and behaviors, animating natural hazards in VR has the potential to enhance stakeholders' (e.g., the public, local/state/federal governments, insurance agencies, and property owners) risk awareness. Informed stakeholders make better decisions related to protective action. Therefore, we propose using VR to create a sense of presence and immersion that can provide stakeholders with hazard exposure, demonstrate a hazard's personalized consequences, and simulate the consequences of protective action, which, in turn, can influence attitudes an d behavioral intentions of the general public to take protective action. Researchers could also apply VR to other hazardous or life-threatening situations and use interdisciplinary research to identify best methods to develop realistic and credible VR that all citizens can access to help mitigate hazards and enhance community resilience.
Paper 2:
Shuraida, S. & Barki, H. (2021). Does supplementing IS analysts' user observations with hands-on training help them better understand users' work? AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(2), pp. 145-174. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00146
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/2/ Abstract:
IS analysts need to acquire knowledge about users' work processes to design high-quality systems. While researchers have proposed hands-on activities in cognitive learning theories to improve knowledge acquisition, current approaches rely on analysts verbally communicating with users or observing them perform their tasks in order to learn these work processes. We draw on social cognitive theory (SCT) to hypothesize and examine how effectively two learning approaches (an observation-only approach and an observation plus hands-on approach) help analysts better understand users' computer-mediated work processes. Accordingly, we conducted an experimental study to compare these two learning approaches. We found that, while participants who had low prior domain knowledge about users' work processes ended up understanding them better in the observation plus hands-on treatment than in the observation-only treatment, the difference between the two approaches was not significant for participan ts who had high prior domain knowledge.
Paper 3:
Noorbergen, T. J., Adam, M. T. P., Roxburgh, M., & Teubner, T. (2021). Co-design in mHealth systems development: Insights from a systematic literature review. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(2), pp. 175-205. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00147
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/3/
Abstract:
Mobile health (mHealth) systems hold great potential for supporting users in self-managing disease and engaging in a healthier life. However, given the mobile context and the multiple factors that affect a person's health, designing mHealth systems involves much complexity and a range of pitfalls. To overcome these pitfalls, scholars have called on system designers to employ a co-design approach; that is, to involve stakeholders in all phases of the design process. However, the literature on how, when, and why designers use co-design in mHealth remains scant. To address this gap, we systematically reviewed 61 studies that co-designed mHealth systems. Our results show that co-designing mHealth systems constitutes a fragmented and rapidly evolving research field with only limited overlaps and a strong focus on the early design phases (i.e., pre-design, generative). Thereby, the co-designed artifacts cover various application contexts in disease management (e.g., heart disease, diabetes ) and health promotion (e.g., physical activity, nutrition) and a diverse group of involved users, healthcare professionals, and system designers. Finally, guided by Sanders and Stappers' (2014) co-design framework, we provide a concise overview of the most widely used methods in the different co-design phases.
Paper 4:
Dunn, B. K., Ramasubbu, R., Jensen, M. L., Galletta, D. F., Lowry, P. B. (2021). Efficiency and exposure: Reconciling the effects of website browsing behaviors for non-transactional outcomes. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(2), pp. 206-242. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00148
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/4/ Abstract:
Organizations invest heavily in developing and maintaining websites to meet various transactional (e.g., online purchases) and non-transactional (e.g., influencing brand attitude and disseminating product information organizational goals. In considering non-transactional outcomes-specifically brand attitude formation and information dissemination-one finds that two literature streams emerge, although they present different recommendations. First, cognitive attitude formation research recommends designing interfaces to promote an efficient experience that takes less time and requires less movement among webpages. On the other hand, the mere exposure literature recommends that longer durations and more exposure to related ideas should improve non-transactional outcomes. To understand the relationship between these two perspectives, we tested related hypotheses in a within-subjects observational experiment with a follow-up survey 10 days later. Building on theory regarding task characte ristics, we also included goal-directedness as a hypothesized moderating variable. We found that more time spent on a website was associated with greater brand attitude improvement and product knowledge retention, but that more webpage views was associated with reduced product knowledge. In addition, the task type influenced the relationships between webpages viewed and brand attitude and between time spent and product knowledge retention.
Paper 5 (Commentary):
Zhou, L., Paul, S., Demirkan, H., Yuan, L., Spohrer, J., Zhou, M., & Basu, J. (2021). Intelligence augmentation: Towards building human-machine symbiotic relationship. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(2), pp. 243-264. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00149
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss2/5/ Abstract:
Artificial intelligence, which people originally modeled after human intelligence, has made significant advances in recent years. These advances have caused many to fear that machines will surpass human intelligence and dominate humans. Intelligence augmentation (IA) has the potential to turn the tension between the two intelligence types into a symbiotic one. Although IA has not gained momentum until recent years, the idea that machines can amplify human abilities has existed for many decades. Expanded from a panel discussion on Intelligence Augmentation at the 2020 International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), we define IA in light of its history and evolution and classify IA based on its capabilities, roles, and responsibilities. Based on reviewing the IA literature in terms of research themes, enabling technology, and applications, we identify key research issues, challenges, and future opportunities.
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Call for Papers
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THCI is one of the journals in the AIS (Association for Information Systems) e-library at http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci. THCI is a high-quality peer-reviewed international scholarly journal on Human-Computer Interaction. As an AIS journal, THCI is oriented to the Information Systems community, emphasizing HCI/UX applications in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. However, it is open to all related communities that share intellectual interests in HCI phenomena and issues. The editorial objective is to enhance and communicate knowledge about the interplay among humans, information, technologies, and tasks in order to guide the development and use of human-centered Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and services for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.
To increase awareness and readership, THCI is still freely available to the public, which is beneficial to the authors and the community. You can find information related to all aspects of THCI at its website (http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci), including how to submit manuscripts for publication consideration. We would like to thank the AIS Council (http://www.aisnet.org/) for its continued support of the journal. And, as always, we are happy to announce that we have published the journal on time for every issue, and are building a strong case for a solid impact factor when released by SSCI and Scopus in the near future. The quality of THCI is affirmed by its inclusion as an "A" journal in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list.
Topics of interest to THCI include but are not limited to the following:
* Behavioral, cognitive, motivational and affective aspects of human and technology interaction
* User task analysis and modeling; fit between representations and task types
* Digital documents/genres; human information seeking and web navigation behaviors; human information interaction; information visualization
* Social media; social computing; virtual communities
* Behavioral information security and information assurance; privacy and trust in human technology interaction
* User interface design and evaluation for various applications in business, managerial, organizational, educational, social, cultural, non-work, and other domains
* Integrated and/or innovative approaches, guidelines, and standards or metrics for human centered analysis, design, construction, evaluation, and use of interactive devices and information systems
* Information systems usability engineering; universal usability
* Impact of interfaces/information technology on people's attitude, behavior, performance, perception, and productivity
* Implications and consequences of technological change on individuals, groups, society, and socio-technical units
* Software learning and training issues such as perceptual, cognitive, and motivational aspects of learning
* Gender and information technology
* The elderly, the young, and special needs populations for new applications, modalities, and multimedia interaction
* Issues in HCI education
The language for the journal is English. The audience includes international scholars and practitioners who conduct research on issues related to the objectives of the journal. The publication frequency is quarterly: 4 issues per year to be published in March, June, September, and December. The AIS Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI, http://sighci.org/) is the official sponsor of THCI.
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Sincerely,
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Editor-in-Chief Gregory D. Moody, Managing Editor ======================================================== Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D. Editor-in-chief, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction Professor of Business & Information Technology Missouri University of Science and Technology 101 Fulton Hall 301 W 14th Street Rolla, MO 65409 Tel: 573-341-6996 Email: nahf@mst.edu URL: http://people.mst.edu/faculty/nahf/
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