Call for Papers

Workshop Objective:

The objective of the workshop is to provide an open and constructive discussion forum of important HCI research in Information Systems that addresses the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks – especially in the business, managerial, organizational, social and/or cultural contexts. HCI in MIS is concerned with the macro level (versus the micro level) of Human-Computer Interaction analysis. The purpose of the workshop is to identify important HCI/MIS problems and innovative research approaches.

The organizing committee is looking for interesting and novel research ideas as well as studies that address important HCI problems in today's organizations by drawing upon theories and/or methodologies from all relevant reference disciplines.

Panel on Publishing HCI Research:

This year's workshop will include a panel of editors-in-chief from premier MIS journals, who will discuss the unique issues associated with publishing HCI research in these journals. The panelists are listed below.

Panelists:

Chris Kemerer, Editor-In-Chief, ISR
Ron Weber, Editor-In-Chief, MIS Quarterly
Vladimir Zwass, Editor-In-Chief, JMIS
Dennis Galletta, Moderator

The main issues for the panelists:
1. What are some attributes of HCI articles that tend to fit well in your journal?
2. What are some attributes of HCI articles that do not fit well?
3. Provide some recommendations to MIS researchers with strong interests in HCI. What are some strategies that one should follow to increase the chances of publishing such work in your journal?
4. Speculate on the future role of HCI research in MIS Journals. Will specialized HCI journals play a more or less important role for our community in the future?  

Topics:

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The perceptual, behavioral, cognitive, motivational, and affective/emotional aspects of human and their interaction with IT
• User task analysis and modeling
• Digital documents/genres and human information seeking behavior
• Informed user interface design and evaluation for all types of business and organizational applications such as:
  • B2B, B2C, C2C E-Commerce
  • E-marketplace and supply chain management
  • Group collaboration
  • Negotiation and auctions
  • Enterprise systems
  • Intranets
  • Extranets
  • Small-screen mobile devices and pervasive computing
  • Multi-dimensional information visualizations
• Integrated or innovative approaches and guidelines for analysis, design, and development of interactive devices and systems
• Usability engineering, metrics, and methods for user interface assessment
• Evaluation of end-user computing in a work or non-work environment
• Information technology acceptance and diffusion issues from cognitive, behavioral, affective, motivational, cultural, and user interface design perspectives
• The impact of interfaces/information technology on attitudes, behavior, performance, perception, and productivity
• Issues in software learning and training
• Gender and technology
• Issues related to the elderly, the young and special needs populations
• Other human factors issues related to human interaction with technology

Submissions:

Authors are encouraged to submit high quality research papers (completed or research in progress papers) that are original. The submissions should not be currently under review elsewhere and the papers should have not appeared elsewhere. Full papers are preferred (with a limit of 5,000 words including references), although extended abstracts of at least 2,500 words (must include references) will also be considered.

Submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Authors should agree to provide timely reviews of at most two other submissions, if requested. Manuscripts should be in MS Word format and be submitted as email attachments to the workshop program co-chairs: Fiona Nah at fnah@unl.edu and copied to Mun Yi (myi@moore.sc.edu) and Andrea Houston (ahoust2@lsu.edu), with the subject heading "HCI/MIS workshop submission." Authors can use the body of the email as the cover letter for the submission and should ensure that their identities do not appear in any part of the manuscript.

The first page of the manuscript should have a title, the type of the submission (complete research or research in progress), total word count of the submission, an abstract of less than 300 words, and a list of 5-6 keywords. All manuscripts should be double-spaced with Times New Roman 12-point font and one-inch margins around.

Publication:

Extended abstracts of all accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. This inclusion should not affect full versions of the papers to be published later in journals. Please follow the format and requirements of the camera-ready version.

Proceedings Submission Guidelines

Authors of accepted papers should make sure that their final camera-ready versions follow the proceedings guidelines that can be downloaded in Word format. Each final paper is no more than 5 proceedings pages with an abstract of no longer than 150 words.

Here are the items each accepted paper's authors should do:
1.  At least one author has to register for the workshop by 11/5/2004. Otherwise, the paper will be withdrawn from presentation at the workshop and the workshop proceedings.
2.  The final camera-ready versions of the papers should be submitted by 11/5/2004 as a Word document to Fiona Nah (fnah@unlnotes.unl.edu) via email with the subject "HCI workshop final submission".
3.  Each author should provide a short bio of up to 60 words by 11/5/2004 to Fiona Nah (fnah@unlnotes.unl.edu) by email. This bio will be listed in the workshop program.

Key Dates:
Submissions due: September 3, 2004.
Acceptance Notification: October 22, 2004
Extended Abstracts Due for Proceedings: November 5, 2004
Workshop: Friday and Saturday, December 10-11, 2004

Organizing Committees

Program Co-Chairs:

Advisory Committee:

Program Committee:

Local Organizing Committee:

Workshop Program

You can now download a copy of the program and proceedings (one large file). Alternatively, you can download a copy of these files individually (program  or  proceedings)

Registration

- visit www.icis2004.org

To register online for ICIS and the workshop, please go to https://www.aisnet.org/conferences/default.aspx?conferenceID=3.

To register online for the workshop only, please go to https://www.aisnet.org/conferences/ancillaryOnly.aspx?conferenceID=3.

Accommodation

Please visit ICIS'04 website at http://www.terry.uga.edu/conferences/ICIS2004/ for accommodation information including conference hotels and rates.

Sponsors

We would like to thank our generous sponsors for supporting the HCI workshop. This year's sponsors include:

Special Issue of JAIS

Dr. Sirkka Jarvenpaa, editor-in-chief of Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) (http://jais.isworld.org), has agreed to fast track successful expansions of the best completed research papers from the workshop for a special issue devoted to the workshop. The special issue is to be published in 2005. It will be co-edited by senior editors from JAIS and the SIGHCI workshop organizing committee. More details will be announced at a later date.

Best Paper Award

Best Reviewer Award

Photos

Workshop Conclusion Presentation

Workshop Summary

Building upon the success of the two previous workshops, the Third Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS continued to attract a large number of participants. A total number of 84 people participated in the 2-day workshop, held in Washington, D.C. The workshop attracted 28 submissions: 22 completed research papers and 6 research-in-progress papers. After a rigorous review process, 12 completed research papers and 5 research-in-progress papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. In addition, the workshop included a panel discussion on publishing HCI research in top IS journals, an open reception, a best paper award, and a best reviewer award. The size of the Program Committee increased 69% over last year (88 vs. 52). Among the accepted papers, six papers were invited for fast tracking in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. There were many stimulating discussions and interesting activities throughout the workshop. Please visit the photo gallery for the various snapshots.

This year's workshop included a panel of editors-in-chief from premier MIS journals: Chris Kemerer (ISR Editor-in-Chief), Vladimir Zwass (JMIS Editor-in-Chief), and Ron Weber (MISQ Editor-in-Chief). The panel discussions were moderated by Dennis Galletta. The theme of the panel was “Publishing HCI Research in MIS Journals.” After the panelists presented a summary of their journal characteristics and their views of HCI research, they responded to questions from the attendees.  The panel discussions drew a lot of attention and generated positive reactions from the attendees.

The six sessions of research paper presentations covered a wide range of topics from interface design to mobile commerce. Of the 17 papers presented, 6 papers were recommended as a best paper by at least one reviewer at the time of reviewing the manuscript. In addition to those 6 papers nominated for the best paper award by the reviewers, the top 5 papers based on the numerical scores were also identified. The union of the two sets resulted in 8 papers. Three papers were eliminated from the final set due to the incomplete nature of the research (research-in-progress) or low numerical scores. Then the Best Paper Award Committee, comprised of Weiyin Hong, Susan Lippert, Paul Lowry, and Nicholas Romano, determined the best paper award, which was given to the paper “An Empirical Study on the Roles of Affective Variables in User Adoption of Search Engines,” co-authored by Heshan Sun and Ping Zhang, both from Syracuse University. The best reviewer was selected by Mun Yi and Andrea Houston, and the award went to Susan Wiedenbeck from Drexel University.

We would like to thank the following individuals and parties who have contributed to the success of the workshop in their unique ways: