Final Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference.
2-5 September 2014
Leeds UK
**Submission deadlines extended**
Doctoral workshop – Monday 21st April 2014
Full papers, short papers and panels – Monday 31st March 2014
The field of human information behaviour and practice is multi-disciplinary in scope: researchers from information science, information management, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, information systems, computer science, and other disciplines all contribute to this field of investigation.
ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference intends to reflect this interdisciplinary character through attracting papers from researchers in all of these areas. The issues of common interest include the relationship between the needs or requirements of the information user, the means for the satisfaction of those needs and the uses to which those means are put in practice by organisations or disciplines. Thus, papers that deal solely with technological aspects of system design, for example, will not be appropriate for the conference.
Themes of the conference include the following:
1.Theories and models of information behaviour and information practice, including conceptualisations of the cognitive, affective, social and situational aspects of information needs, seeking, searching, use and sharing.
2.Research approaches and methodologies.
3.Information behaviour and information practices in specific contexts: e.g., in different sectors and organisations (health care, education, business, industry, the public services and government, the emergency services); in everyday life, and in virtual social networks (including social media, gaming and virtual worlds as arenas for information exchange).
4.Collaborative information practices: communities, boundary spanning and innovation practices.
5.Information use and value: the nature of information and how information is used to help solve problems, aid or support decision making
6.Information behaviour and analytics (social media and enterprise analytics).
7.Organisational structures and processes and information behaviour and practices.
8.The role of information in building and enhancing the adaptive capacity of organisations: strategy and information absorption, transformation and integration.
9.The mediation of information behaviour: how human or software agents can respond to information needs.
10.The design of information delivery systems to meet information needs generally, or in organisational or disciplinary contexts, including social media and Web 2.0 developments such as blogs, wikis, e-learning platforms and open access information resources.
11.The communication of information to users: relationship between communication theory and information behaviour, including, for example, the relationship of information architectures to information seeking behaviour and the design of information products based on sound communication principles.
12.Cross-disciplinary contributions: integrating studies on information seeking and interactive retrieval; integrating information science, management science and information systems.
For this forthcoming conference we are particularly eager to see research papers engaged communities that are currently under-represented or considered marginal (socially and/or culturally). Also, analytical, rather than descriptive investigations will be sought, with strong connections to previous work and to theoretical or conceptual frameworks.
Full Paper Format
The maximum length of a paper is 5,500 words (excluding the list of references).
Short Papers
For the first time ISIC will also provide a dedicated track for short papers for work in progress. The purpose of this track is to present late-breaking results, work in progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. Short papers will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage process by the program committee. Submissions for the short paper track should be 3 pages (at most), excluding references, and 4 pages (at most), in total. They will be orally presented at the conference with each presenter being allocated 15 minutes, 10 – 12 minutes to present their paper and a couple of minutes to answer any questions.
Panel Proposals
ISIC is now accepting calls for panel proposals. These are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues. They should be provocative, informative, and entertaining. Panel proposals should include:
• Summary of the topics to be covered;
• Name, affiliation and contact information for the panel chair;
• Names and affiliations of up to four panellists (in addition to the panel chair) who have made a commitment to participate;
• Short summary of their position statements; and
• Brief biography of each participant.
Doctoral Workshop
We also invite doctoral students to submit an application for participation in the Doctoral Workshop held in conjunction with the Conference on 2 September, 2014.
Conference Location
ISIC is a biennial conference. The last ISIC conference was held in 2012 in Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and the earlier conference in 2010 in the Universidad de Murcia, Spain. We are delighted that in 2014 it will be hosted by Leeds University Business School. The Business School is internationally renowned for the quality of its teaching, its research and its facilities. The City of Leeds is a modern vibrant city which has excellent transportation links but is also provides access to the beautiful countryside and heritage of Yorkshire.
Conference Organization
The conference is being jointly organized by the Leeds University Business School, the University of Sheffield iSchool and the Department of Information Studies, University of Aberystwyth.
Important Dates
Full papers, short papers, and panels submission deadline is 31st March, 2014.
Doctoral worshop deadline is 21st April 2014
Notification of acceptance of papers will be made on 28 April, 2014.
Further Information
Further information is available on the conference website: http://isic2014.com/
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