[AISWorld] CFP - HICCS-51 Mini-Track on Data Analytics in Behavioral Research & Special Issue: ISF Journal

[Motiwalla, Luvai]

HICSS 2018 Call for Papers: DATA ANALYTICS IN BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH MINI-TRACK

We would like to invite you and your research colleagues to submit a paper to the DATA ANALYTICS IN BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH minitrack in the HICSS-51 conference to be held on January 3-6, 2018 at Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, Hawaii (www.hicss.org). Read on for more information about the minitrack and journal fast-tracking opportunity.

Minitrack: Data Analytics in Behavioral Research
Track: Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-51/decision-analytics-mobile-services-and-service-science/#data-analytics-in-behavioral-research-minitrack

The data analytics in behavioral research mini-track encourages novel research submissions that deal with objective measures for understanding IT adoption, acceptance and usage. Specifically, we are interested in studies that use data analytics approaches as objective measures to understand human behavior with information systems. Traditional behavioral studies have mainly relied on survey-based approach to capture behavioral intent of accepting or using the new system. With advances in monitoring system use and data analytics, newer approaches that track and analyze user actual behavior with system can provide a much better indicator of systems’ acceptance and use.

This mini-track seeks new work from researchers to foster a growing body of exploratory, theoretical, experimental and field research that could advance the use of data analytics approaches for understanding IT adoption, acceptance or system usage. We seek papers that address individual or firm level adoption that advance both theoretical practice and provide practical contributions to this field. Advance analytical approaches including machine learning that analyze user behavior from data log files, eye-movements, brain imaging (e.g., fMRI, EEG) and other psychophysiological tools are welcome.

User behavior with systems is too complex to be understood from subjective measures alone. This mini-track therefore seeks to foster a broader understanding with a diverse objective measure approaches. We solicit papers from a full range of epistemological, methodological, and data analytics approaches.

The mini-track will solicit submissions in the following areas:
- Research agendas that investigate IS adoption, acceptance or usage with objective measures
- Research agendas that identify data science issues, privacy vulnerabilities, dark side of IT use and acceptance
- Research agendas that investigate post adoption of usage behavior with analysis and evaluation of large data repositories
- Research agendas that compare data analytics based methodologies with traditional survey or qualitative approaches in terms of validity and feasibility.
- Papers that combine research and applied practice.

This minitrack provides a forum for integrating relevant, vital academic user behavior research activity with the broader international community.

The HICSS conference proceedings are published in the IEEE Digital Library on behalf of the IEEE Computer Society. HICSS conference publications consistently account for the top 2% downloads of all IEEE conferences, and extended versions of these manuscripts often lead eventually to top tier journal publications.

JOURNAL FAST-TRACKING OPPORTUNITY
We are excited to announce that high-quality papers from this minitrack to be fast tracked to a special issue of Information System Frontiers (ISF) on "Data Analytics in Behavioral Research".

IMPORTANT DATES:
- April 1, 2017: Paper submission begins.
- June 15, 2017 | 11:59 pm HST : Paper submission deadline
- August 17, 2017 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
- September 22, 2017 : Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication
- October 1, 2017 : Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for HICSS-51
- January 3-6, 2018: HICSS-51 Conference
- January 31, 2018: Submission of select papers for journal fast-track opportunity.

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Luvai Motiwalla (Primary Contact)
University of Massachusetts Lowell
luvai_motiwalla at uml.edu

Amit Deokar
University of Massachusetts Lowell
amit_deokar at uml.edu

Surendra Sarnikar
California State University East Bay
surendra.sarnikar at csueastbay.edu