2006:

• HEQEH: Heuristic Evaluation of the Quality in E-commerce Hypermedia (CollECTeR LatAm 2006 : Valparaiso ~ Chile)

2007:

• MEDIE: Method for a Evaluation of the Design in Industrial E-commerce (HCI International 2007 : Beijing ~ China)
• Guidelines of Quality for Industrial Online Tourism (HCI International 2007 : Beijing ~ China)
• Tourism Promotion in Rural Areas: Tools for Quality Design (CollECTeR LatAm 2007 : Córdoba ~ Argentina)

2009:

• Quo vadis informática, ética y estética? :: Quo vadis computer science, ethics and esthetics? Blue Herons Editions. ISBN: 978-88-96471-06-7.

2010:

• Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems: Concepts and Practices for Design. IGI Global. Hershey, Pensilvania ~ USA. ISBN: 978-16-15207633.
• Persuasion On-Line and Communicability: The Destruction of Credibility in the Virtual Community and Cognitive Models. Nova Science Publishers. New York ~ USA. ISBN: 978-1-61668-268-2.
• Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments. IGI Global. Hershey, Pensilvania ~ USA. ISBN: 978-16-09600440. In press.

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*** H A N D B O O K ***

( HCI collection )

*** Additional Information ***

On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (HCI collection) in 2010

Title: "Advances in Dynamic and Static Media for Interactive Systems: Communicability, Computer Science and Design"

Editor: Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra

Co-editors: Andreas Kratky (Los Angeles, USA),

Carlos de Castro Lozano (Córdoba, Spain), and

Mauricio Pérez Jiménez (La Laguna, Spain)

Editorial Assistant: Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK)

Important Dates:

Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: August 31, 2010
Proposal Acceptance Due Date: September 21, 2010
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: November 15, 2010
Planned Publishing Date: December 2010

Introduction

In the last decade, social and interactive medias have emerged as one of most vivacious areas in information technology and communication. Today, it is necessary to insert mechanisms to increase the qualitative communicability among different users all over our world. These mechanisms are achieved through heuristics and using as a common area the intersection of the formal and factual sciences. The main goal is to increase the quality of communicability in interactive systems and to introduce a new professional in the context of the information science, technology and management called ‘Communicability Analyst in Interactive Systems’. The secondary targets are to present a series of works in which it is possible to analyze the current state-of-art of the new technologies advances in universities, R+D laboratories, industrial sectors, etc. and to create an area of excellence among the formal and factual sciences aimed at constantly increasing the quality of interactive systems, especially those related to communicability, augmented reality, multimedia/hypermedia (online and/or off-line), Web 2.0, Web 3.0, virtual reality and mixed reality.

Handbook Aims

This edited handbook aims to report emerging new horizons in R+D and development outcomes on problems and corresponding strategies, methods, techniques, approaches and successful applications or solutions in design, communicability, audio-visual contents and programming for advances in dynamic and static media (online and/or off-line interactive systems). The handbook encourages high quality chapters to eradicate ambiguities and increasingly unify all participants in computer science and design, from production to realization of the emerging or new technologies.

Scopes of Interest (not limited to):

• 2D and 3D Computer Graphics
• Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques
• Applied Linguistics
• Augmented Reality
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biometrics Techniques
• Cartography Digital
• Cinema 3D
• Color Mapping, Imaging, Illumination and Texture Mapping in Computer Graphics
• Communicability
• Computer Aided Design
• Computer Animation
• Computer Art
• Cultural and Natural Heritage
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Digital Sound
• Distribuited Systems
• Dynamic Graphics and Static Graphics: 2D and 3D
• E-book
• E-commerce
• E-entertainment
• E-government
• E-health
• E-inclusion
• E-job
• E-journal
• E-learning
• E-radio
• E-security
• E-tourism
• Emerging Audio-Visual Layout and Content
• Ergonomics
• Geographical Information Systems
• Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics
• Human Factors and Computer Science
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Hypertext, Multimedia and Hypermedia
• Interactive Design
• Legislation for New Technologies
• Local and Global Design for International Users
• Methods and Techniques for Requirements Analysis, Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems
• Mixed Reality
• Mobile Multimedia
• Models of Design for Interactive Systems of Communication
• Multimedia Publishing and Communication
• New Media and Veracity of the Contents
• New Technologies for Advertising
• Photography and Illustration Digital
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Qualtiy Metrics for Interactive Systems
• Robotics
• Semiotics
• Software Quality
• Software Testing: Strategies and Techniques
• Telecommunications
• TV Interactive
• Usability Engineering
• User-Centered Design
• Video Games
• Virtual Campus
• Virtual Reality
• Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

Submissions

Two-stage submission: First, interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal clearly stating your focused domain problems and contributions related to one of the above topics due on August 31, 2010; second, authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 21, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due by November 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a triple-blind review basis. The handbook is scheduled to be published in December 2010 by Blue Herons Editions (Canada, Argentina, Spain and Italy).

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

- Abdulmotaleb El Sadik. University of Ottawa (Canada)
- Alberto Cáceres Díaz. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Alicia Mon. Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Anne Balsamo. University of Southern California (USA)
- Annie Lau. University of New South Wales (Australia)
- Antonio Rodríguez de la Heras. Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
- Artemisa Trigueros. Universidad de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Arturo Colorado Castellary. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
- Barbara Leporini. ISTI-National Research Council (Italy)
- Claudia Marcos. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Bs. As. (Argentina)
- Cristóbal Ruíz Medina. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
- Daniel Giulianelli. Universidad de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Daniela Fogli. Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy)
- Elio Ramos Colón. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Elisa Giaccardi. Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
- Enrique Rubio Royo. Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canarias (Spain)
- Evelyn Torres Gallardo. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Fabio Crestani. University of Lugano (Switzerland)
- Francis C. M. Lau. Hong Kong University (China)
- Francisco Alcantud Marín. Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
- Francisco Pérez García. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
- Gerardo Valeiras Reina. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- Germán Ruipérez. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Graciela Hadad. Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Ignacio Aedo Cuevas. Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
- Isabel Marko. Universidad de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Isidro Moreno Sánchez. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
- Jorge Mora Fernández. University of Southern California (USA)
- José Guerrero Ginel. Universidad de Córdoba (Spain)
- José Pino Mejias. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- José Zato Recellado. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Juan Hourcade. University of Iowa (USA)
- Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
- Julian Bleecker. University of Southern California (USA)
- Juri Hwang. University of Southern California (USA)
- Kaisa Väänänen Vainio Mattila. Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto (Finland)
- Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Manuel Garrido Lora. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- Maria Claudia Buzzi. IIT - National Research Council (Italy)
- Maribel Sánchez Bonilla. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
- Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Marina Buzzi. IIT - National Research Council (Italy)
- Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
- Monica Landoni. University of Lugano (Switzerland)
- Pablo Flores. Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
- Pablo Negrón Marrero. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Pablo Vera. Universidad de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Pablo Villarreal. Universidad Nacional Tecnológica (Argentina)
- Paloma Díaz Pérez. Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
- Rafael Pastor Vargas. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Rafael Sánchez Montoya. Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
- Rocío Rodríguez. Universidad de La Matanza (Argentina)
- Sebastián Dormido Bencomo. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
- Stefano Levialdi Ghiron. Università degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza (Italy)
- Steve Anderson. University of Southern California (USA)
- Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
- Timothy Read. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Valerio Bellandi. Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
- Virginia Guarinos Galán. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)
- Wolter Pieters. University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Chapter proposal guidelines

The proposal is expected to be 2 - 4 pages, submitted in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, author(s) (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, references and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s. All enquiries and submissions can be forwarded to handbook@blueherons.net

Additional Notes

1) The longest extension of the chapters varies between 20 and 22 pages (8.000 - 10.000 words). Exceptionally, the extension may be longer than this, but each additional page has a 20 euros cost (maximun 6 pages).

2) The chapters that have been positively evaluated by the reviewers (at least three), whose remarks or corrections –in the case there were, having been made by the authors, could be published in the handbook. The publication cost is 195 euros, and the payment should be made through a bank transfer to the Blue Herons account, as it is next detailed:

• Name: Blue Herons
• Bank: Deutsch Bank
• Office address: Central Office :: viale giovanni XXIII, 21 :: 24021 - bergamo (bg) Italy
• Banking coordinates IBAN: IT02F0310411100000000820435

The payment of the transfer has to be made prior to September 30, 2010 for the publication of the chapter. Send us a scanned copy of your bank transfer by email: handbook@blueherons.net Please ensure that you pay any charges you bank may charge. We will send you confirmation by email when we have received your payment.

3) All cancellations received in writing by September 30, 2010 will be fully refunded, less 70 euros which will be deducted for administrative expenses. No refunds will be made from October 15, 2010 onwards.

4) The authors will get a free copy of the handbook. The costs of certificated post and by airmail are at the expense of the authors.

5) The authors can request more than a copy (until finishing the current edition) with a 30% special discount.