Announcing the Publication of

Volume 4 Issue 4 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction

(http://thci.aisnet.org)

 

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, 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 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 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

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