Announcing the Publication of

Volume 5 Issue 2 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction

(http://thci.aisnet.org)

 

We have three major announcements about AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) along with this newest issue. Please read on!

 

Announcement 1: New Co-Editor: The first five and a half years of AIS THCI were brought to you through you via a collaboration between founding co-editors at Syracuse University (Ping Zhang) and the University of Pittsburgh (Dennis Galletta). We are now moving into a new era. While I am sad to see Ping moving on, two years later than she had originally planned, I am excited to introduce Joe Valacich as my new Co-Editor in Chief.  It is fitting to recognize the contributions of Ping and to welcome Joe in this new issue announcement.

 

Ping’s contribution to THCI was the result of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. THCI was born from an excellent and comprehensive proposal for an AIS HCI Special Interest Group by Ping Zhang and Fiona Nah about a dozen years ago. Following the strategy in the SIG proposal, about a half dozen years ago Ping approached me about co-proposing and being a co-editor of this new journal. After AIS Council approved the journal, Syracuse University generously sponsored and supported her participation as Co-Editor: Syracuse provided us with managing editorships for the entire run of the journal, and provided Ping with release time to devote attention to the journal. I always looked to her as the one who really made the journal tick. She provided me with gentle reminders of things I was supposed to do, and things I was supposed to have done. She always kept us publishing on time. I thank Ping for so much that is difficult to enumerate. We know she will move on to many other rewarding endeavors.

 

Jian Tang, our outgoing managing editor, has been instrumental at making sure Manuscript Central was working well. Thanks to Jian, our issues have always looked professional and the papers had impeccable “references” sections. Anyone involved with production of a journal knows the importance of the managing editor. There were some busy weekends and holidays when Jian was burning the midnight oil. We thank Jian for her professional attention, excellence, and hard work.

 

Announcement 2: We are excited to have an incoming Co-Editor who requires no introduction: Joe Valacich, Professor of MIS at University of Arizona. You might remember that he co-authored the THCI best paper from 2011, along with Ana McNab and Traci Hess. Joe has published dozens of highly-cited papers in top journals, and won several research awards at his previous university: Washington State. In 2009 he also ranked in the list of 25 most prolific scholars in the history of MIS Quarterly over 32 years of the journal. Joe takes over as Co-Editor starting in the September 2013 issue. If you have ideas on the future of the journal, please feel free to e-mail either of us as we continue with the journal.

 

Announcement 3: We are excited to announce the best paper for 2012. A committee solicited nominations for the papers, reviewed the nominations, voted, and came up with the following:

 

“Trends in Website Design,” by Gili Korman Golander, Noam Tractinsky, and Ilanit Kabessa-Cohen. Download the paper at this link.

 

THCI is one of the journals in the AIS (Association for Information Systems) e-library (http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci). To increase awareness and readership, THCI is still freely available to everyone during its initial years of publishing. You can find information related to all aspects of THCI at its website, including how to submit. We would like to thank AIS Council for its continued support of the journal. We are also pleased to announce that we have published the journal on time for all 18 issues.

 

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In this issue

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This issue has a research article by Sedig and Parsons that presents a framework of 32 patterns of interaction design that can be applied in many situations.

 “Interaction Design for Complex Cognitive Activities with Visual Representations: A Pattern-Based Approach” by Kamran Sedig and Paul Parsons

 

This paper is concerned with interaction design for visualization-based computational tools that support the performance of complex cognitive activities, such as analytical reasoning, sense making, decision making, problem solving, learning, planning, and knowledge discovery. In this paper, a number of foundational concepts related to interaction and complex cognitive activities are syncretized into a coherent theoretical framework. This framework is general, in the sense that it is applicable to all technologies, platforms, tools, users, activities, and visual representations. Included in the framework is a catalog of 32 fundamental epistemic action patterns, with each action pattern being characterized and examined in terms of its utility in supporting different complex cognitive activities. This catalog of action patterns is comprehensive, covering a broad range of interactions that are performed by a diverse group of users for all kinds of tasks and activities. The presented framework is also generative, in that it can stimulate creativity and innovation in research and design for a number of domains and disciplines, including data and information visualization, visual analytics, digital libraries, health informatics, learning sciences and technologies, personal information management, decision support, information systems, and knowledge management.

 

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Call for Papers

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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 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.

 

Topics of interest to THCI include but are not limited to the following:

 

• The 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
• The 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://sigs.aisnet.org/SIGHCI/) is the official sponsor for THCI.

 

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Please visit the links above or the links from our AIS THCI page for details on any emerging special issue calls that will be announced in the future. Please keep checking our home page to see what is brewing! If you have an idea for a special issue, please drop us a line any time.

 

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AIS THCI Editorial Board

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Editors-in-Chief

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Dennis Galletta, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ping Zhang, Syracuse University, USA

 

Advisory Board

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Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia, Canada

John M. Carroll, Penn State University, USA

Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Jenny Preece, University of Maryland, USA

Gavriel Salvendy, Purdue University, USA and Tsinghua University, China

Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA

Jane Webster, Queen's University, Canada,

K.K Wei, City University of Hong Kong, China

 

Senior Editor Board

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Fred Davis, University of Arkansas, USA

Traci Hess, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Shuk Ying (Susanna) Ho, Australian National University

Mohamed Khalifa, University of Wollongong, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jinwoo Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

Anne Massey, Indiana University, USA

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Lorne Olfman, Claremont Graduate University, USA

Kar Yan Tam, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China

Dov Te'eni, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Noam Tractinsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas, USA

Mun Yi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

 

Associate Editor Board

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Miguel Aguirre-Urreta, DePaul University, USA

Michel Avital, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Hock Chuan Chan, National University of Singapore

Christy M.K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Michael Davern, University of Melbourne, Australia
Carina de Villiers, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Alexandra Durcikova, University of Arizona, USA

Xiaowen Fang, DePaul University, USA

Matt Germonprez, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire USA
Jennifer Gerow, Virginia Military Institute, USA

Suparna Goswami, Technische U.München, Germany

Khaled Hassanein, McMaster University, Canada

Milena Head, McMaster University, Canada
Netta Iivari, Oulu University, Finland
Zhenhui Jack Jiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Richard Johnson, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
Weiling Ke, Clarkson University, USA
Sherrie Komiak, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Na Li, Baker College, USA

Paul Benjamin Lowry, City University of Hong Kong, China
Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University, China
Scott McCoy, College of William and Mary, USA
Greg Moody, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Robert F. Otondo, Mississippi State University, USA

Lingyun Qiu, Peking University , China

Sheizaf Rafaeli, University of Haifa, Israel

René Riedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Khawaja Saeed, Wichita State University, USA

Shu Schiller, Wright State University, USA

Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Stefan Smolnik, European Business School (EBS), Germany
Jeff Stanton, Syracuse University, USA
Heshan Sun, University of Arizona USA

Jason Thatcher, Clemson University, USA

Horst Treiblmaier, Vienna University of Business Administration and Economics, Austria
Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University, Canada
Fahri Yetim, University of Siegen, Germany

Cheng Zhang, Fudan University , China

Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University, China

 

Managing Editor

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Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA

 

DG

 

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University of Pittsburgh                 and Director, Katz Doctoral Program

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