Call for Papers

Building on the high level of interest in HCI issues within the MIS field, as evidenced by the high submission rate in the HCI minitrack and the overwhelming participation in the HCI panel at AMCIS 2002, AIS SIGHCI is planning its first annual research workshop to be held prior to ICIS 2002 in Barcelona in December.

Workshop Objective:

The objective of the workshop is to provide an open and constructive discussion forum of important HCI research in IS that addresses the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks -- especially in the business, managerial, organizational, 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 research ideas and studies that identify important HCI problems in today's organizations and that attempt to resolve these problems by drawing upon theories and/or methodologies from all relevant disciplines. The workshop will include both invited presentations and peer-reviewed articles.

Organizing Committees

Workshop Chair:

Program Co-Chair:

Advisory Committee:

Program Committee:

Local Organizing Committee:

Workshop Program

Registration

Anyone who is interested in the workshop is welcome to participate.

AIS policy states that you need to be an AIS member ($65/$40 annual fee for academic/student) and SIGHCI member ($10 annual fee) in order to register to the workshop. You can join AIS and SIGHCI during the registration process.

The workshop is in conjunction with ICIS'02 conference (International Conference on Information Systems) and has the registration built in the ICIS registration system. However, you DO NOT have to register ICIS in order to participate in the workshop.

Accommodation

Sponsors

We are very grateful to the following sponsors of our workshop:

Presentations in PowerPoint (12/26/2002)

With authors' consents, the following presentations are available for download.

Workshop Summary (12/30/2002)

The First Annual Workshop on HCI Research in the MIS Discipline was held on December 14, 2002 in Barcelona, Spain, right before the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS'02). Ping Zhang was the workshop chair. Fiona Nah and Sid Davis were the program co-chairs. In addition, the workshop organizing committee consisted of six advisory committee members, 25 program committee members, two local organizing committee members, and one local volunteer. A total of 42 people registered and participated in the workshop, representing thirty-three universities and one industry in nine countries: US (29), Canada (4), Spain (2), UK (2), Australia (1), Hungary (1), Israel (1), Netherlands (1), and Singapore (1). Seven of the participants were doctoral students. There were four invited speakers: Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Diane Strong, and Dov Te'eni. Dean Ray von Dran from Syracuse University gave a very intriguing speech during lunch. Also presented were eight rigorously double-blind reviewed articles by a total of twenty authors.

The presentations covered a variety of timely and interesting topics that spread across all levels of HCI analyses including individual, group, organization, and society. Perspectives covered included interface design, evaluation, individual reactions to IT, and impact of IT on individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Specifically, the following were presented and discussed:

interface metaphors for B2C, using communication theory to guide adaptive website design and e-learning, impact of cognitive mapping on website design, technology acceptance (TAM), task-technology fit (TTF), computer self-efficacy, trustworthiness in online service adoption, trust and adoption of recommendation agents, individual reactions to website delays, motivation and emotion in user evaluation of information seeking environments, expert-novice differences in technology-supported collaborative decision making, management information space, designing online community, and goals for new computing: usable (reliable and comprehensible), universal (for diverse users and varied equipment), and useful (in harmony with human needs).

There were also very interesting presentations and discussions on pure theory vs. problem-driven-theory oriented research; changing HCI emphasis from individual usability, to organizational usability, to societal usability; and emerging information schools or departments that focus on enriching human's lives through information.

These lively presentations and discussions opened doors for more and richer studies in the future. Ideas for collaboration on research projects were generated among some participants during the workshop. Several exciting discussions and debates continued after the workshop. It was exciting to see the overwhelming interest and participation, and the synergy developed during the workshop. Participants utilized the coffee breaks, the lunch break, and the time before and after the workshop to introduce themselves to one another. They participated actively in the discussions following each presentation. More than fifteen participants continued networking and discussions after the workshop by having dinner together (more participants would have attended the dinner if not because the dinner started very late at 9 pm when many participants were just too tired due to jetlags). Many new friends were made and many new connections were established. There were several individuals who took abundant pictures at the workshop.

The high energy demonstrated the keen interest MIS researchers have on HCI issues, suggesting the importance of HCI studies within the MIS community. As nicely commented and summarized by Ben Shneiderman during the workshop, "this workshop is an important and historical event." This high synergy is a continuation of that created at the HCI minitrack and the HCI panel at AMCIS 2002. As organizers of AIS SIGHCI, we hope to continue to cultivate the high interest and synergy at future AMCIS HCI minitracks and panels, and future pre-ICIS HCI/MIS workshops. We appreciate everyone's continued support and welcome any suggestions, comments, and volunteering to make SIGHCI and its future events even more interesting and intellectually rewarding.

There are many people we want to thank because without their unique contributions, the workshop would not have been as interesting and productive.

Members of the Advisory Committee (Izak Benbasat, Jane Carey, Fred Davis, Dennis Galletta, Diane Strong, and Andy Whinston) provided support and concrete suggestions for the workshop. Ben Shneiderman and Jenny Preece offered very interesting and inspiring ideas for the workshop. The twenty-five program committee members and two additional reviewers played an important role in quality control of the peer review process as well as provided constructive comments and suggestions on all the submissions. Of the 16 submissions, four received four reviews, eleven received three reviews, and one received two reviews. Our local organizing committee member Xavier Ferre provided the projector and helped with the logistics during the workshop. Our local volunteer, Oriol Miralbell, took care of shipping and handling the workshop materials, made the dinner arrangement, and videotaped the entire workshop. Four well-known scholars, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Diane Strong, and Dov Te'eni, demonstrated their warmest support by cordially accepting our invitations and sharing their exciting and innovative insights on HCI research and trends at the workshop. The 34 authors of the 16 submissions demonstrated their support and confidence in us by submitting their high quality work to the workshop. The participants played an important role in making the workshop a live event. The AIS headquarters office handled the registration for the workshop. As the AIS VP for Member Services and the initiator of AIS SIGs, Dennis Galletta worked very hard with the AIS office to keep costs down for the workshop. Dean Ray von Dran of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University generously provided not only financial support to sponsor the workshop, but also staff time and a Graduate Assistant to help in organizing the workshop. Sirkka Jarvenpaa and Izak Benbasat provided their support and encouragement by fast tracking the best papers from the workshop. Several individuals including Xavier Ferre, Dennis Galletta, Kevin Kuan, Fiona Nah, Ben Shneiderman, and Ping Zhang kept the first workshop memory alive by taking photos at the workshop.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for all the support that has been given to us to make this workshop a huge success.

Ping Zhang & Fiona Nah

Best Presentations Selected by Participants (01/29/2003)

Workshop participants were asked to select two best presentations in their opinions. The following two are the winners: