Dear friends,

I would be more than grateful to you if you could you
forward the call to your lists. The topic is a bit
difficult especially for 'useful user-centred' areas.

Thank you very much in advance,
Best wishes,
Niki
http://nikilambropoulos.org

>Please accept our apologies for crosspostings<

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/communities-book.html

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005

User-Centered Evaluation of Online Communities

A book edited by:
Niki Lambropoulos, Intelligenesis Consultancy, London,
UK

Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design,
City University, London, UK


Overall Objectives of the Book
------------------------------
The main objective of this book is to bring together,
in one book,
Contributions on the topic of User-Centred Evaluation
of Online Communities. A significant portion of the
book will also focus on real life case studies where
such evaluations have been applied and validated.

As such, the book will be of great use to those who
study, design, construct,
moderate, evaluate and maintain online communities in
organizations,
e-learning, eBusiness, e-government and other related
domains.

The Target Audience
-------------------
Since the ultimate goal of the suggested methodologies
is the use of the
Results of successful interventions, the target
audience is everyone who owns, develops, evaluates and
moderates online communities - either individuals,
universities other organizations or companies.

Recommended Topics
------------------
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the
following

* Online Communities Evaluation Methodologies: Focus
on Users
* User-Centred Evaluation of Online Communities
* Online Communities Evaluation Methodologies
* Online Communities Evaluation Methodologies: Results
into Practice
* Guide to Online Communities Evaluation
Methodologies: from Theory to
Practice
* Future Trends


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
--------------------
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on
or before April
30, 2005, a 2 page (maximum) manuscript proposal
clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of the proposed chapter.  Authors
of accepted
proposals will be notified by May 31, 2005 about the
status of their
proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines.
Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by August 31, 2005.  All
submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a blind review basis.  The book is
scheduled to be
published by Idea Group, Inc., publisher of the
&#8220;Idea Group Publishing,&#8221;
&#8220;Information Science Publishing,&#8221; and
&#8220;IRM Press&#8221; imprints in 2006.

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded
electronically (Word
document) or by mail to:

Niki Lambropoulos
eLearning & Online Communities Architect Researcher
Intelligenesis Consultancy
London, N3 1QY, UK
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

or

Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris
Centre for HCI Design, City University
London, EC1V 0HB, UK
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859

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