[AISWorld] Call for HCI Mini-Track Proposals for AMCIS 2017 (Deadline: October 17, 2016)

[Aguirre-Urreta, Miguel]

(Apologies for any cross-posting)

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder that the deadline for mini-track proposal submissions for AMCIS 2017 is next Monday, October 17, 2016. Please see below for the call, and note that this year selected best track papers will be offered the option to be fast-tracked to AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. If you have any questions or ideas for a novel mini-track, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you to make the HCI track at AMCIS 2017 a success.

Best regards,

Miguel, Dezhi and Greg


Call for HCI Mini-Track Proposals for AMCIS 2017 (Deadline: October 17, 2016)

AMCIS 2017 Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Track, Sponsored by SIGHCI
We formally invite information systems (IS) scholars interested in HCI-related research to propose mini-tracks for the upcoming AMCIS 2017 in Boston (August 10-12, 2017).

The AMCIS 2017 HCI Track will provide a forum for AIS members to present, discuss and explore a wide range of issues related to Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems. Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary area that has attracted researchers, educators, and practitioners from several disciplines. It essentially deals with the design, evaluation, adoption, and use of information technology, with a common focus on improved user performance and experience. New and exciting research opportunities are emerging, including issues and challenges concerning people’s interactions with various information technologies that can be examined from an organizational, managerial, psychological, social, or cultural perspective. This track welcomes papers that aim at advancing our understanding of human‐computer interaction at the individual, work group, organization, or society levels. Submissions may use any type of research method.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-        Aesthetic and affective computing

-        Application of neuroscientific approaches to understanding human/technology interaction

-        Behavioral, cognitive, motivational, and affective aspects of human/technology interaction

-        Design considerations for IT security and privacy management

-        Design implications of diversity in users, technologies, and environments including but not limited to the elderly, the young, and special needs populations

-        Design implications of online user behaviors

-        Design, evaluation, and implications of social networking applications

-        Development and applications of multi‐dimensional information visualizations

-        Digital documents/genres and human information seeking behavior

-        Human‐centeredness and user‐centeredness in technology development and technology use

-        Impact of interfaces/information technology on attitudes, behavior, performance, perception, learning, and productivity

-        Interface design methodologies

-        Interface designs on new platforms such as mobile and ubiquitous technologies

-        Interface design, evaluation, and impacts

-        New HCI techniques and technologies

-        Personalization and adaptive interfaces

-        Psychological and social aspects of human interaction with technology, including trust, negative cognitions, etc.

-        Usability engineering; metrics and methods for user interface assessment and evaluation

-        Usability studies for end‐user computing in work or non‐work environment, especially in the Internet era

-        User interface design and evaluations for emerging application areas such as M‐commerce, electronic collaboration and negotiation systems, pervasive computing, and virtual worlds

-        User task analysis and modeling; fit between navigation scheme and task types

-        Virtual world and 3‐D web

-        Website design and evaluation

Included below is a list of HCI mini-tracks that were successfully conducted at AMCIS 2016 in San Diego, CA, along with names and emails of the mini-track co-chairs. We would like to repeat these mini-tracks. If your interests are in line with these mini-tracks, please contact the previous mini-track co-chairs to express your interest in helping out with a mini-track this year. There is often a need for multiple chairs on any mini-track, and sometimes people do not have time to run the same mini-track again.

MINI-TRACK 1: GAMES, GAMIFICATION AND BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Zongwei Luo, South University of Science and Technology of China, luozw at sustc.edu.cn<mailto:luozw at sustc.edu.cn>
Rameshwar Dubey, Symbiosis International University, rameshwar.dubey at siom.in<mailto:rameshwar.dubey at siom.in>

MINI-TRACK 2: IS, FOOD INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Chul Woo Yoo, Florida Atlantic University, yooc at fau.edu<mailto:yooc at fau.edu>
Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, jgoo at fau.edu<mailto:jgoo at fau.edu>
C. Derrick Huang, Florida Atlantic University, dhuang at fau.edu<mailto:dhuang at fau.edu>
Ravi S. Behara, Florida Atlantic University, rbehara at fau.edu<mailto:rbehara at fau.edu>

MINI-TRACK 3: INTERFACE DESIGN, EVALUATION AND IMPACT
Younghwa “Gabe” Lee, Miami University, gabelee at miamioh.edu<mailto:gabelee at miamioh.edu>
Anna L. McNab, Niagara University, amcnab at niagara.edu<mailto:amcnab at niagara.edu>
Andrew N. K. Chen, University of Kansas, andrewchen at ku.edu<mailto:andrewchen at ku.edu>

MINI-TRACK 4: UNDERSTANDING AND FOSTERING TRUST IN INFORMATION SYSTEM
Sherrie Yi X. Komiak, Memorial University of Newfoundland, skomiak at mun.ca<mailto:skomiak at mun.ca>
Bansal Gaurav, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, bansalg at uwgb.edu<mailto:bansalg at uwgb.edu>
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology, nahf at mst.edu<mailto:nahf at mst.edu>

In addition, we look forward to receiving proposals for new mini-tracks as well. Mini-tracks are not limited to those previously conducted and we welcome new, exciting, and innovative mini-track proposals for the HCI Track. The proposal for a new mini-track should include a brief description of the mini-track and how it would contribute towards advancing HCI research in MIS. Mini-track chairs will be responsible for (a) promoting their mini-track to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2017; (b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the mini-track; (c) providing a summary report to authors based on reviews; (d) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the mini-track; and (e) nominating best papers and reviewers. Important dates and activities are identified below and on the AMCIS 2017 website.

Important: Please note that this year selected best track papers will be offered the option to be fast-tracked to AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI; http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/), an official AIS journal that is sponsored by SIGHCI and co-edited by Dennis Galletta and Paul Lowry.

Important Dates:
20-September-2016: ScholarOne opens for Mini track proposals
17-October-2016: ScholarOne closes for Mini track proposals
27-October-2016: Mini track decisions are issued
09-January-2017: ScholarOne opens for Completed and ERF paper submissions
01-March-2017: ScholarOne closes for Completed and ERF paper submissions
17-April-2017: Notification of initial decisions on Completed and ERF paper submissions

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for helping to make next year's AMCIS HCI Track a success!

Best regards,

AMCIS 2017 HCI Track Co-Chairs

Miguel Aguirre-Urreta, Texas Tech University, miguel.aguirre-urreta at ttu.edu<mailto:miguel.aguirre-urreta at ttu.edu>
Greg Moody, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, gregory.moody at unlv.edu<mailto:gregory.moody at unlv.edu>
Dezhi Wu, Southern Utah University, dezhi.wu at gmail.com<mailto:dezhi.wu at gmail.com>