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). In press

2009

*** CALL FOR CHAPTERS ***

On an Edited Book to be Published by IGI Global (Disseminator of Knowledge since 1988 - Hershey, PA 17033-1240, USA) in 2009

Title: Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems: Concepts and Practices for Design

Editor: Francisco V. C. Ficarra

Editorial Assistants: Emma Nicol and Joel Gamon

Important Dates:

Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2008
Proposal Acceptance Due Date: December 20, 2008
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009
Planned Publishing Date: July 2009

Introduction

In the last decade, hypertext, multimedia and hypermedia have emerged as one of most vivacious areas in information technology. Today, it is necessary to insert mechanisms to increase the qualitative communicability among different users all over our planet. 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 ‘heuristic assessor of qualitative communicability 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 in several American, Asian and European universities, R+D laboratories, 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 multimedia/hypermedia on-line.

Book Aims

This edited book aims to report the state-of-art research and development outcomes on problems and corresponding methodologies, techniques, approaches and successful applications in quality and communicability for interactive and hypermedia systems (on-line and/or off-line). The book encourages high quality chapters to eradicate ambiguities and increasingly unify all participants in the design, from production to realization of the hypermedia system.

Scopes of Interest (not limited to):

- Applied Linguistics
- Audio-visual Communication
- Communicability
- Computer Aided Design
- Computer Aided Education
- Computer Graphics and Computer Animation
- Cultural Heritage
- Database for Interactive Systems
- E-book
- E-commerce
- E-government
- E-learning
- Ergonomics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Industrial Design
- Information Architecture
- Interface Design
- International and National Users
- Local and Global Business
- Methods and Techniques for Evaluation
- Media in Education
- Models of Design for Interactive Systems of Communication
- Podcasting
- Quality Attributes in the Interactive Systems
- Quality Metrics
- Semiotics
- Software Engineering
- Software Quality
- Usability Engineering
- Tourism
- Videogames
- Virtual Campus
- Web 2.0
- Wireless and Mobile Computer Science

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 November 30, 2008; second, authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 20, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a triple-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published in 2009 by IGI Global (Disseminator of Knowledge since 1988 - Hershey, PA 17033-1240, USA). Detailed manuscript instructions are available from IGI Global. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

Chapter proposal guidelines:
The proposal is expected to be 1-2 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, and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s:

All enquiries and submissions can be forwarded to:

Francisco V. C. Ficarra