JUS Call for Articles: Special Issue
New Frontiers in Usability
for Users' Complex Knowledge Work and Collaborations
Call for Papers for a Peer-Reviewed Special Issue of JUS
At the "Workshop on HCI & Information Design to Communicate Complex
Information" in Memphis in February 2007, a group of practitioners
and academics presented and discussed their new studies related to
making systems usable and useful for knowledge work. Focusing on
various information, communication, and decision support systems,
they examined usability and usefulness in terms of design,
development processes, evaluation, cognition, domain expertise, and
workplace ecologies. JUS would like to publish one or more special
issues on important themes that surfaced at the workshop and that
strongly affect how usability specialists approach their work and
research when designing for and evaluating complex products for complex work.
Useful and usable systems for complex work involve supporting domain
experts in solving open-ended, unstructured, complex problems
involving extensive and recursive decision-making. Complex work
occurs in numerous fields from evaluating inventory to allocating
resources to making medical judgments to gathering intelligence to
conducting research in academia to building online communities. A few
examples of possible themes for this special JUS issue include:
* Understanding how domain experts retrieve and use information
on the web and, therefore, how to design for this audience and these tasks
* New methods required for evaluating complex products for complex work
* Rethinking usability for visual analytics and complex knowledge work
* Community websites as complex work with distinct usability approaches
* Understanding how domain experts perceive complexity and
simplicity in medical environments
Articles on these and other themes related to complex works will
introduce JUS readers to this important and growing area of practice
and research.
Please send to Barbara Mirel or Mike Albers a notice of your
intention to submit in the form of a two page (single spaced)
abstract, including the thesis of your intended piece.
Submission Schedule
Response to JUS Special Issue editors of your intent to
submit: September 1, 2007
Invitation to submit issued September 15, 2007
Paper submitted: November 1, 2007
Peer review completed and comments to authors: February 1, 2008
Final paper submitted: May 15, 2008
Publication: Summer or Fall 2008.
Special Issue Editors:
Barbara Mirel ([log in to unmask])
Mike Albers ([log in to unmask])
JUS Associate Editors for the Special Issue
Whitney Quesenbery ([log in to unmask])
Ginny Redish ([log in to unmask])
The Online International Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) is a
peer-reviewed, international, online publication dedicated to promote
and enhance the practice, research, and education of usability engineering.
Submission guidelines can be found at:
http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/submit.html
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Dr. Michael J. Albers
Associate professor
Technical & Professional Communication
Department of English
East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27858
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