2006

- Podcasting y Nuevas Tecnologías: Mitos y Realidades en la Comunicación Multimedia y la Educación a Distancia (Blue Herons Editions, 2006). Traslation fase: Italian-Spanish version. Italian ISBN: 8890152656

2007

- Aporia in the Maps of he Hypermedia Systems (HCI International 2007 : Pekin ~ China)
- A Study of Acteme on Users Unexpert of Videogames (HCI International 2007 : Pekin ~ China)

2008

- Quality Metrics for Multimedia Reading: Assessment, Comprehension and Teaching. (New York ~ USA). ISBN: 978-1-60692-615-4

2009

- Persuasion Online and Communicability: The Destruction of Credibility in the Virtual Community and Cognitive Models. (New York ~ USA). ISBN: 978-1-60876-590-4.

2010

- Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems: Concepts and Practices for Design. (Hershey, Pensilvania ~ USA). IBSN: 978-16-15207633.

*** 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-editor: Andreas Kratky (Los Angeles, USA)

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 book is scheduled to be published in 2010 by Blue Herons Editions (Canada, Argentina, Spain and Italy). Detailed manuscript instructions are available from Blue Herons Editions (next February). For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit the new portal www.blueherons.net (next February 2010).

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:

Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD (handbook@blueherons.net)