[AISWorld] Abstract Announcement for International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) 6(1)

[Steven Goschnick]

Abstract Announcement for International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) 6(1)

The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP)
Volume 6, Issue 1, January - June 2017
Indexed by: INSPEC
Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2156-1796; EISSN: 2156-1788; 
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijpop<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-people-oriented-programming/41021>
Editor-in-Chief: Steve Goschnick (Swinburne University, Australia)
Note: The International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) has an Open Access option, which allows individuals and institutions unrestricted access to its published content. Unlike traditional subscription-based publishing models, open access content is available without having to purchase or subscribe to the journal in which the content is published. All IGI Global manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
EDITORIAL PREFACE
Editorial Preface
Steve Goschnick (School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)
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ARTICLE 1
Inclusion of Users with Special Needs in the Human-Centered Design of a Web-Portal
Renate Motschnig (University of Vienna, Austria), Dominik Hagelkruys (University of Vienna, Austria)
Human-Centered Design focuses on the analysis, specification and involvement of a product's end users as driving elements in the design process. The primary research objective of the case-study presented in this paper is to illustrate that it is essential to include users with special needs into all major steps of designing a web-portal that provides services to these special users. But how can this be accomplished in the case of users with special cognitive and affective needs? Would the ‘classical’ Human-Centered Design Process (HCD) be sufficient or would it need to be adapted and complemented with special procedures and tools? In this paper the design team shares the strategies they adopted and the experiences they gained by including users with dyslexia in the design of the LITERACY Web-Portal. Besides providing insight into the special effort and steps needed to adapt HCD for users with special needs, the paper encourages application designers to include end-users even though - or particularly because - they have needs that are special and critical for the adoption of the product.
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www.igi-global.com/article/inclusion-of-users-with-special-needs-in-the-human-centered-design-of-a-web-portal/184770<http://www.igi-global.com/article/inclusion-of-users-with-special-needs-in-the-human-centered-design-of-a-web-portal/184770>
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ARTICLE 2
End User Perspective of e-Learning using LMS-Like Systems
Robert Costello (Newcastle College, Creative and Digital Industries, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
In literature, e-learning plays an important part in improving the needs of learners and educators, as well as other stakeholders and institutions. However, this research indicates that e-learning is often used as a repository for uploading academic materials, without taking into consideration characteristics of the learner. This investigation examines a variety of techniques adopted from e-learning, adaptive learning and User Modelling to suggest improvements within industry. Throughout the paper, there will be a strong influence on how future PLEs should be designed and tailored to challenge the end users' perception of on-line education to meet the future needs of the learner, the educator and the institution. Focusing on future trends would allow developers to encapsulate learners motivational and learning needs. These aspects would enable designers to improve usability, functionality and reliability. PLEs are not just a collection of applications tailored towards personalisation, they are significantly more important than that. These systems are designed to be a functioned application/platform/management-system that promotes and encourages Personalised Learning. The research found within the case studies have shown that concepts of PLEs have contributed towards the learners' experience.
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www.igi-global.com/article/end-user-perspective-of-e-learning-using-lms-like-systems/184771<http://www.igi-global.com/article/end-user-perspective-of-e-learning-using-lms-like-systems/184771>
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ARTICLE 3
Wolfram Language for Teaching Computational Thinking to K-12 Learners
Alyson Gamble (Wolfram Research, Champaign, IL, USA)
Computational thinking is a necessary skill, but developing it among young learners can be a difficult process. Wolfram Research, known in part for its accessible Wolfram Language and complex computational tool Mathematica, has recently developed new initiatives for introducing computational thinking to novice learners. These tools help make computational thinking accessible to students across the K12 curriculum.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJPOP:
The primary mission of the International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the people-oriented programming, appealing to both academics and practitioners. It also educates a wider audience discussing the conceptualization, design, programming, configuration and orchestration of self-fashioned tools and products that ultimately suit the user's own unique needs and aspirations. The journal publishes original material of high quality concerned with the theory, concepts, techniques, methodologies and the tools that service a market-of-one - the empowered user.
Indices of IJPOP:
Bacon's Media Directory, Cable’s Directories, DBLP, Google Scholar, INSPEC, JournalTOCs, MediaFinder, ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Journals, ProQuest Computer Science Journals, ProQuest Illustrata: Technology, ProQuest SciTech Journals, ProQuest Technology Journals, The Index of Information Systems Journals, The Standard Periodical Directory, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Coverage of IJPOP:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
·         Activity theory and modeling
·         Agent meta-models, mental models
·         Alert filter and notification software, automated task assistance
·         Augmented reality, augmented interaction
·         Automating personal ontologies, personalised content generation
·         Client-side conceptual modeling
·         Computational models from psychology
·         Context-aware systems, location-aware computing, ubiquitous computing
·         Cultural probes, self-ethnography
·         End-user composition, end-user multi-agent systems
·         Game development support tools
·         Game mods, game engines, open game engines
·         Home network applications
·         Human-centered software development
·         Interface generators, XML-based UI notation generators
·         Interface metaphors
·         Life logs, life blogs, feed aggregators
·         Mashups, mashup tools, cloud mashups
·         Model-driven design, didactic models, model-based design and implementation
·         New generation visual programming
·         Personal interaction styles, touch and gestures
·         People-Oriented Programming (POP)
·         People-Oriented Programming case studies
·         Personal ontologies and taxonomies
·         Personalisation, individualisation, market of one
·         Personas and actors
·         Real-time narrative generation engines
·         Role-based modeling
·         Service science for individuals
·         Situated computation, social proximity applications
·         Smart-phone mashups, home network mashups, home media mashups
·         Software analysis & design, software process modeling
·         Software component selection
·         Speech and natural language interfaces
·         Storyboarding, scenarios, picture scenarios
·         Task flow diagrams, Task-based design
·         Task models, task analysis, cognitive task models, concurrent task modeling
·         Use case models, user interface XML notations
·         User-centered design, usage-centered design
·         User interface tools, XML-based UI notations
·         User modelling, end user programming, end user development
·         Wearable computing, bodyware
·         Web-service orchestration, web-service co-ordination
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines:
www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-people-oriented-programming/41021<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-people-oriented-programming/41021>