-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Volume 4, Issue 4 of AIS Transactions on HCI Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:39:12 -0500 From: Galletta, Dennis galletta@katz.pitt.edu To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org
Announcing the Publication of
Volume 4 Issue 4 of /AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction/
We proudly announce the current issue of /AIS Transactions on HCI, /which completes the fourth volume.
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, http://aisel.aisnet.org/ including how to submit. We would like to thank AIS http://home.aisnet.org/ Council for its continued support of the journal. We are also pleased to announce that we are continuing in our efforts to obtain indexing for our journal. Indexing a journal provides many benefits and recognizes the ability of the journal to attract good work from authors for a sustained period of time, and the quantity of submissions has enabled us to publish on time for all 16 issues.
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In this issue
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Paper #1: Audience Gatekeeping in the Twitter Service: An Investigation of Tweets about the 2009 Gaza Conflict /K. Hazel Kwon, Onook Oh, Manish Agarwal, and H. Raghav Rao/
There are few papers that are more timely than this one that involves social networking, news propagation, and social change. The study examines the information dispersed on Twitter during the 2009 Israel-Gaza conflict, and explores the impacts of pre-existing hyperlinks on Twitter users' information selection. The findings revealed the importance of a small number of prominent websites, high importance of existing hyperlinks, and high importance of social media channels, which grew as the conflict entered later stages. An important implication is that the power of Twitter users' gatekeeping "may diminish the authority of traditional organizations...as a primary information delivery system" (p. 224). Also, it appears that rather than media fragmentation, social media seems to lead to media concentration.
Paper #2: Augmented Sustainability Reports: A Design Science Approach Michael Freundlieb and Frank Teuteberg
Another very timely concern of firms is that of sustainability. At the same time, MIS people have a unique perspective on a firm, and are quite likely to be one of the few units that can examine how the very disparate economic, social, and ecological goals are addressed and balanced by management. This paper examines how to augment sustainability reports with multimedia contextual information that changes depending on the position that captures a user's attention (indicated by mouse position). The researchers developed and tested a prototype, and found that their prototype was strongly preferred by subjects to the conventional PDF-based report, even though the content was equivalent in each format.
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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 http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/ 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
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Dennis F. Galletta Professor of Business Administration
University of Pittsburgh and Director, Katz Doctoral Program
282a Mervis Hall Katz Graduate School of Business
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