[Asis-l] Volume 1 Issue 2 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction Published

[Ping Zhang]

 (apologies for cross posting)

Announcing the Publication of
Volume 1 Issue 2 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
(http://thci.aisnet.org)

As co-Editors-in-Chief of the new journal, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI), we are proud to announce the publication of its second issue. THCI is located within the AIS (Association for Information Systems) e-library (http://aisel.aisnet.org). To increase awareness and readership, THCI is freely accessible to everyone during its first two years of publication. You can find information related to all aspects of THCI at its website, including how to submit.

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In this issue
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Research Article:
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"The Design for Social Presence in Online Communities: A Multidimensional Approach"

By Kathy Ning Shen and Mohamed Khalifa

The design of online communities that promotes user participation is critical to the community's success in fostering new ideas and innovations, building knowledge competencies, and strengthening customer relations. Social presence has been considered as a major design principle and important concept in explaining the relationship between online community artifacts and online user behavior. While most prior IS research adopts a unidimensional conceptualization of social presence and focuses on its effects on user attitude and/or behavior, this research employs a multidimensional conceptualization and demonstrates its suitability for understanding the effects of online community artifacts on social presence. More specifically, this research examines the effects of three categories of design artifacts (artifacts supporting self-presentation, deep profiling, and virtual co-presence) on three social presence dimensions (awareness, affective social presence and cognitive social presence). To validate the research model, a survey was conducted with four online communities. Different social presence dimensions were found to carry different weights in forming the overall sense of social presence and the effects of perceived usage of various online community artifacts varied for different social presence dimensions.

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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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Editorial Boards
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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
Mohamed Khalifa, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates
Anne Massey, Indiana University, USA
Lorne Olfman, Claremont Graduate University, USA
Kar Yan Tam, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
Dov Te'eni, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas, USA
Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA

Associate Editor Board
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Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jane Carey, Arizona State University, USA
Hock Chuan Chan, National University of Singapore
Carina de Villiers, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Matt Germonprez, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire USA
Khaled Hassanein, McMaster University, Canada
Milena Head, McMaster University, Canada
Traci Hess, Washington State University, USA
Shuk Ying (Susanna) Ho, Australian National University, Australia
Netta Iivari, Oulu University, Finland
Zhenhui Jack Jiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Weiling Ke, Clarkson University, USA
Sherrie Komiak, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Brigham Young University, USA
Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University, China
Scott McCoy, College of William and Mary, USA
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Sheizaf Rafaeli, University of Haifa, Israel
Stefan Smolnik, European Business School (EBS), Germany
Jeff Stanton, Syracuse University, USA
Heshan Sun, University of Arizona USA
Jason Thatcher, Clemson University, USA
Noam Tractinsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Horst Treiblmaier, Vienna University of Business Administration and Economics, Austria
Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University, Canada
Mun Yi, University South Carolina, USA

Managing Editor
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Michael Scialdone, Syracuse University, USA


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Dr. Ping Zhang, PhD Program Director
School of Information Studies (http://ischool.syr.edu<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ischool.syr.edu/>)
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-5617, Fax: 315-443-6886
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Co-EIC, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (http://thci.aisnet.org<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://thci.aisnet.org/>)
SE, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (http://jais.aisnet.org<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://jais.aisnet.org/>)
HCI Textbook (http://melody.syr.edu/books/hcibook<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://melody.syr.edu/books/hcibook>)
HCI Research volumes (http://melody.syr.edu/books/amis<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://melody.syr.edu/books/amis>)
AIS SIGHCI (http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci<https://exchange.syr.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci>)
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