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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

 Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2008

 Affective, Interactive and Cognitive Methods for E-Learning Design: Creating an Optimal Education Experience

 A book edited by Dr. Aimilia Tzanavari, University of Nicosia, Cyprus and
 Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

 Introduction

 In e-learning, the learner spends a significant amount of his/her time online, interacting with web-based applications. This interaction carries tremendous weight in the learning process, because it directly influences the way the learner receives, comprehends and ultimately retains information. Affective, Interactive and Cognitive Methods for E-Learning Design: Creating an Optimal Education Experience will try to bridge the current gap that exists in e-learning literature. This manuscript will focus on the study and application of human computer interaction principles to e-learning design in order to offer learners the optimal e-learning experience. In addition, advances in affective computing will be addressed in the context of e-learning environments. This book will give insight into the most important design issues encountered and will offer solutions to these issues that will help the specialist create HCI-sound e-learning materials, lessons, courses or software.

 Objective of the Book

 This book aims to provide the relevant theoretical frameworks associated with specific HCI topics/principles and with topics/principles in affective computing that should be considered when working in the area of e-learning. Perspectives from educators, designers, and developers will be presented. Theory will be complemented with real cases where the reader can see situations, solutions and their results. Open research questions will be discussed.

 Target Audience

 Researchers in the areas of e-learning, affective computing and/or HCI, as well as educators and/or professionals who are involved in the design and development of e-learning material, lessons, complete courses and/or e-learning software. Higher education students enrolled in e-learning, multimedia, design and/or HCI courses will also benefit.

 Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 Adaptive interfaces for eLearning systems
 Learner and group modeling
 Learning in the Information Society
 Needs analysis and design phases of eLearning systems development
 Designing for mLearning
 Usability and Accessibility criteria for eLearning systems
 Accessible interfaces in eLearning
 Virtual Reality environments for education
 Hypermedia and multimedia in eLearning systems
 Ontologies for eLearning environments
 Designing based on eLearning standards
 Providing learner support
 Learner experience evaluation methods and approaches
 Accessibility of eLearning material
 Affective computing in eLearning
 Learner centered design (LCD)
 Web advances and learning
 HCI in eLearning Design Patterns

 Submission Procedure
 Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2008, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 15, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

 Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (MS Word / Open Office / pdf documents) or by mail to:
 Dr. Aimilia Tzanavari
 Dept. of Design and Multimedia
 University of Nicosia
 46 Makedonitissas Av.
 P.O. Box 24005
 CY-1700, Nicosia, CYPRUS
 Tel.: +357 22351276 (ext 215)
 tzanavari.a@unic.ac.cy

 or

 Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis
 Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies,
 Cyprus University of Technology,
 31 Arcbishop Kyprianos Str.,
 P.O.Box 50329
 CY-3036, Limassol, CYPRUS
 Tel.: +357 25002614
 nicolas.tsapatsoulis@cut.ac.cy