AIEDAM Special Issue:
Human-computer Interaction in Engineering Contexts
Edited by : I.C. Parmee and I.F.C. Smith
Although the human-computer interaction (HCI) community has been
active for several years, very little attention has been devoted
to supporting engineers. Engineers are unique computer users with
particular needs. They are familiar with fields such as applied
mathematics, applied sciences, simulation, project management,
technical drawing and design as well as engineering law and
economics. Also, they are often in positions where they are
legally responsible for the decisions they make. Such decisions
are often made in contexts of incomplete and changing
information.
This is a call for papers that provide progress towards improving
human-computer interaction in engineering contexts. These
contexts may involve the following tasks :
- Integration and collaboration
- Design
- Fabrication
- Construction
- Evaluation
- Monitoring
- Repair
- Control
Issues, methods and techniques related to themes such as
knowledge capture, representing engineering knowledge, supporting
engineering tasks, proactive support, passive support, solution
navigation, student scaffolding and interface evaluations are of
interest.
Of particular interest is the development of HCI techniques that
support the capture of experiential engineering knowledge in
iterative human / machine-based processes leading to the
identification of good solutions. This highlights a perceived
requirement for two-way information exchange:
- computer to human
- in the form of succinct representations of generated data.
- human to computer
- in terms of appropriate problem reformulation based upon
generated data and experiential knowledge.
It is assumed that the term `HCI' is not restricted to
`front-end' issues. HCI also embraces complex concepts relating
to information generation, representation, processing and
knowledge capture. Such activities clearly rely upon appropriate
data representation, visualisation and other state-of-the-art
interface aspects. The aim of the special issue is to capture
this whole picture in the form of a set of high-quality
complementary papers.
Please submit papers in electronic form to:
For papers that exceed 2Mb in size, please place the file in a public
directory and send URL or FTP location for downloading.
Papers will be reviewed by a committee in order to select papers
for publication in the special issue. Quality papers that are not
selected may be considered for standard publication in AIEDAM.
Important dates:
Deadline for full papers Oct 15, 2001
Reviews completed Dec 9, 2001
Notification of acceptance Jan 15, 2002
Corrected papers due April 30, 2002
Final acceptance May 15, 2002
Submission to Cambridge UP June 16, 2002
Publication date November 2002
