Schedule

• Submission deadline: 15 February, 2002
• Publication date: April/May 2002

Scope

The Oxford English Dictionary defines interaction as "reciprocal action; action or influence of persons or things on each other" and also provides the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) definition limiting the scope to interaction, information processing, and flow of information between computer interfaces and people. However, interactivity can be consciously designed and developed in digital libraries (DL) based on pedagogical, technical, discipline-bound, or social dimensions of interaction between the user and the system. The following are important characteristics of interactive systems:

1. reciprocal action
2. feedback
3. immediacy
4. relevancy
5. synchronicity
6. choice
7. immersion
8. play
9. flow
10. multi-dimensional

1. Text and Hypertext
2. Multimedia
3. Models and simulations
4. Measurements and charts
5. Visualizations
6. Problem-solving
7. Guided discovery
8. Data manipulation (Linguistic processing and numerical calculation)
9. Personalization and Customization
10. Recommender systems or agents
11. Annotation, Review, and Referral
12. Knowledge representation (alternative forms of information presentation and organization)

Submission

Authors must submit their papers electronically using the submission form. Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. Authors who wish to submit a paper with notable or unusual features, as mentioned in the guidelines, are requested to contact the Guest Editor prior to submission.

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