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Call for Book Chapters: "User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning"
by Panayiotis Zaphiris 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/call-book.html Submission Deadline: August 10, 2004 User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning A book edited by: Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK Giorgos Zacharia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Open Ratings Inc., USA Overall Objectives of the Book ------------------------------ The objective of this book is to look at the topic of Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) in a new direction. We will focus on the human-computer interaction elements of learning a language online. The general goal of the book is to discuss the basis of a broad framework for the development and management of CALL environments, enriched with contributions from domains as diverse as education, information systems, psychology, sociology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, e-learning and many others. The book will put the emphasis on the user (learner) and propose methodologies, strategies and design approaches for designing interfaces that facilitate a user-centered design approach and focus to CALL The target audience ------------------- University educators and educators in general; university administrators; researchers; librarians, teachers of foreign languages, e learning and CALL system managers and designers. Recommended Topics ------------------ Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following * Introduction: Introductory chapters to the topic of user-centred design of CALL * Analysis: Ethnographic (virtual, phase-to-phase) studies of CALL courses; Requirement solicitation for CALL courses; Analysis of Social and Cultural Perspectives of CALL; Development or use of novel analysis methodologies for CALL; Analysing the social structure of CALL learning communities. * Design: Learning Theories for CALL (e.g. constructivism, behaviourism, social constructionism) and how these can be linked to the design of specific learning objects; Examples of successful user-centered designed CALL courses; How to develop interfaces to facilitate different learning styles for online CALL; Design of Educational Computer Platforms for CALL; Design Scenarios for CALL * Evaluation: Student support and assessment mechanism in the era of networked CALL; Human Factors, Usability/Accessibility evaluation of CALL; Evaluating the effect of design elements (e.g. multimedia) as motivation factors in learning a foreign language online SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 10, 2004, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 31, 2004 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2004. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., publisher of the “Idea Group Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” and “IRM Press” imprints in 2005. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Centre for HCI Design City University London, EC1V 0HB UK e-mail: zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8168 Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859 -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8859 zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri

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SNA & OSS
by mboudour＠upatras.gr 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hello Air! I was wondering whether those of you who happen to know any literature on methods of social network analysis (SNA) applied to free or/and open source software (OSS &FOSS) development projects might be kind to inform me about this (either by sending me a personal e-mail or through the list). I should add that Ijust don't happen to know anything on this area and so your assistance will be extremely valuable for me. Best, --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour

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Re: [Air-l] SNA & OSS
by Irene Berkowitz 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

A place you might look for such research. http://www.ssrn.com/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:59:29 +0300 (EEST) >From: mboudour(a)upatras.gr >Subject: [Air-l] SNA & OSS >To: AIR-List <air-l(a)aoir.org> > > >Hello Air! > >I was wondering whether those of you who happen to know any literature on >methods of social network analysis (SNA) applied to free or/and open >source software (OSS &FOSS) development projects might be kind to inform me >about this (either by sending me a personal e-mail or through the list). >I should add that Ijust don't happen to know anything on this area and >so your assistance will be extremely valuable for me. > >Best, > >--Moses > > M.A. Boudourides > Associate Professor > > Department of Mathematics > University of Patras > 265 00 Rio-Patras > Greece > > Tel.: +30-2610-996318 > Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 > > http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour > > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l Irene Berkowitz Director of Curricular Publications Temple University Office of the Vice Provost 215-204-7596 Please note my new email address below and update your address records accordingly. irene.berkowitz(a)temple.edu

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Couch Award winners announced
by Mark D. Johns 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org Contact: Mark D. Johns Asst. Professor of Communication Luther College 700 College Drive Decorah, IA 52101 (563) 387-1347 johnsmar(a)luther.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2004 Couch Award Winners Announced CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, June 15, 2004 -- The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is pleased to announce the winners of the 2004 competition for the Carl J. Couch Award for Internet Research. This award honors student papers from all disciplines researching various aspects of the influence of the Internet on society. This year's First Place Couch Award winner is Han Lee, doctoral student at University of Illinois at Chicago, for his paper, "Race in cyberqueer space: Looking at race in online personal advertisements for men seeking men." Second place was awarded to Shawn McIntosh, doctoral student at Rutgers University, for his paper, "Moving Fw: Theoretical perspectives on the role of email joke forwarding in maintaining online social relationships." Third place was awarded to Justin Goarcke, masters degree student at the University of Northern Iowa, for his paper, "Formation and reinforcement of Goth identity online." These students will be invited to present their papers at the annual international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers to be held September 19-22 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. Winners also receive a cash award to assist with their continuing studies. The Couch Award honors the late Carl Couch, long-time professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and founder of the so-called "New Iowa School" of social research. As a leading proponent of "symbolic interactionism," Couch insisted that humans are social actors who construct their social world, and not passive objects conforming to social expectations. Couch was one of the first scholars to see computer-mediated communication not just as another way to transmit information, but as an arena in which people exchange symbols and form social interactions. The 2004 Couch Award Review Committee was composed of four scholars: Mary Chayko of the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J.; Mark D. Johns of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa; Katherine M. Clegg Smith of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.; and Lori Kendall of the State University of New York at Purchase, N.Y. The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship in sociological and communication inquiries begun by Carl Couch. The center provides networking opportunities and corroboration information for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work involving qualitative laboratory research on information technologies and their impact on society. For additional information on the Couch Center or the Couch Award, contact Mark D. Johns at johnsmar(a)luther.edu or Professor Shing-Ling S. Chen, University of Northern Iowa, at chen(a)cccsir.org. # # # ------ Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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SCRIPT-ed
by Andres Guadamuz 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Announcement The second issue of SCRIPT-ed, the online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual law and technology journal of the AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law is now live and can be found at: http://www.script-ed.org The Editorial Board of SCRIPT-ed welcomes submissions for future issues in any language. All submissions are refereed. Deadlines for the September issue are as follows: July 15, 2004 - Articles Aug. 1, 2004 - Submissions for the Analysis Section and Book Reviews Comments regarding the journal are welcome and may be sent to itandip(a)ed.ac.uk ------------------------- Andres Guadamuz AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz(a)ed.ac.uk http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/

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Academic papers specifically on LiveJournal?
by Theresa M. Senft 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hi Friends-- I know members of AoIR have been rounding up academic research about blogging in general--and thanks for your hard work! Now I am going to put out a selfish request: who here has been doing work specifically on LiveJournal? Could folks who have done so contact me off-list with citations and such? I'd also love to read your work, if you feel comfortable mailing it my way. You can send it to terri.senft(a)nyu.edu I'll compile a list of who has done what, and post it back here in a few days. Thanks in advance! Theresa M. Senft Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program Auxiliary Adviser, Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 519 email: terri.senft(a)nyu.edu www.livejournal.com/users/tsenft Theresa M. Senft Auxiliary Adviser, Gallatin School of Individualized Study Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 519 (212) 998-7333 email: terri.senft(a)nyu.edu

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auto-rejection
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

due to the large number of spam and virus's that we receive on the list which require moderation, i have turned on an auto-rejection for posts of unsubscribed addresses. this is currently experimental, i want to see whether it is tenable for a list like ours. let me know if you run into problems. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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RE: [Air-l] Internet Surveys: One or Many?
by Ec.Deutskens＠MW.unimaas.nl 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Dear Kyle, Of course it depends on what you define as 'very long' and 'small'. We have done an experiment where group 1 received a 'very long version' (about 30-45 minutes; it was basically the traditional mail survey with 19 product categories), and group 2 received a shorter version (~15 minutes; the traditional questionnaire split into 2, so 9 product categories). The results showed that short questionnaires have a higher response rate, although long questionnaires still generate a surprisingly high response. Furthermore, there were interesting interaction effects with the type of incentive (see Deutskens, E.C., J.C. de Ruyter, M.G.M. Wetzels, and P. Oosterveld (2004), "Response Rate and Response Quality of Internet-based Surveys: An Experimental Study". Marketing Letters 15 (1), 21-36 for more information) I hope this helped! Success with your study, Lisa > -------------------------------------------------- > > Drs. Elisabeth Deutskens > > PhD Student > Universiteit Maastricht > Faculty of Economics and Business Administration > Department of Marketing > > Tel: +31 (-43) -3883716 > Fax: +31 (-43) -3884918 > E-mail: ec.deutskens(a)mw.unimaas.nl > > website: http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/ec.deutskens/ > > -----Original Message----- From: Kylie Veale [mailto:kylie@veale.com.au] Sent: zondag 13 juni 2004 7:06 To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Internet Surveys: One or Many? Folks, I have a quick question (I think) for the group with regard to internet surveys. Does anyone have an opinion and/or references to literature about whether the implementation of several small surveys is better that one very long survey? When I say 'better', I mean a positive effect on survey responses? Thanks Kylie ------------------------------------------ Kylie J. Veale | Brisbane, Australia GradDipInvEnv, MInetStds(Design) PhD student email: kylie(a)veale.com.au www: http://www.veale.com.au/kylie _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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A couple of questions about IR 5.0
by Sarah Michele Ford 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out if my grad student budget can handle the trip to Sussex in September, and I had a handful of questions: 1) Will there be any opportunities to volunteer in exchange for a reduced registration fee? There's a "volunteers" tab on the conference webpage, but no information is there yet. 2) Will there be any opportunity to apply for travel assistance funding through AoIR? 3) How practical would it be to stay in Brighton proper and travel by bus to the University each day? 4) Will there be any organized way to connect attendees with possible hotel/hostel roommates? Thanks, Sarah Sarah Michele Ford Department of Sociology / University of Massachusetts, Amherst ************************************************************************ Illusion is the general rule of the universe; reality is but an exception. --Jean Baudrillard Sarah Michele Ford ************************************************ Illusion is the general rule of the universe; reality is but an exception. --Jean Baudrillard ************************************************

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4 new papers + 2 MS Thesis + 1 Book on opensource.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

Hello Air-Lers, Hope everyone is doing well. Please find below the following new papers, thesis and a book on opensource.mit.edu|freesoftware.mit.edu. Thanks to all the authors for their submissions. Please provide feedback to the authors directly. Until next time - best wishes -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu Paper 1 Authors: Elliott, Margret & Walter Scacchi Title: Mobilization of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/elliottscacchi2.pdf Abstract: Free/open source software (F/OSS) development projects are growing at a rapid rate. Globally dispersed virtual communities with large groups of software developers contribute time and effort often without pay. One force behind this phenomenon is the Free Software Movement (FSM), a 20 year-old social movement whose purpose is to promote the use of free software instead of proprietary software. We show how the ideology of the FSM influences software development work practices in F/OSS communities and how an occupational community of F/OSS developers has emerged from this movement. We present results from an empirical study of a F/OSS development community, GNUenterprise (GNUe) whose purpose is to build an Enterprise Resource Planning system. We show how the beliefs in freedom and freedom of choice, and the values of cooperative work and community building are manifested in the GNUe norms of informal self-management, immediate acceptance of fellow contributors, and open disclos ure. Paper 2 Author: Henkel, Joachim Title: The Jukebox Mode of Innovation: a Model of Commercial Open Source Development http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/henkel.pdf Abstract: In this paper, I explore the circumstances under which innovation processes without secrecy or intellectual property protection are viable, and where free revealing of innovations is a profit-maximizing strategy. Motivated by an empirical study of embedded Linux, I develop a duopoly model of quality competition. Firms require two complementary technologies as inputs, but differ with respect to the relative importance of these technologies. I find that a regime with compulsory revealing can lead to higher product qualities and higher profits than a proprietary regime. When the decision to reveal is endogenized, equilibria with voluntary revealing arise, again superior to the proprietary outcome. Paper 3 Author: Lin, Yuwei Title: Epistemologically Multiple Actor-Centred System: or EMACS at Work! http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lin.pdf Abstract: This paper analyses the innovation process of EMACS (short for Editing MACroS) from a socio-technical perspective. I investigates how actors from different backgrounds contribute multiple ways of knowing, understanding and resolving problems that arise in the innovation process. The analysis of EMACS is especially useful since it spans the period that saw the origins of the free software movement and the subsequent development of a broader free/libre open source software (FLOSS) social world. Paper 4 Suzor, Nic, Brian Fitzgerald & Graham Bassett Title: Legal Issues for the Use of Free and Open Source Software in Government http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/suzorfitzgeraldbasset.pdf Abstract: This paper examines some of the legal issues that face the uptake of free and open source software in government in Australia. This paper was presented at the 'Linux and Open Source in Government' conference, part of Linux.Conf.Au 2004 in Adelaide, Australia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MS Thesis 1 Author: Peng, Zheshi Title: Linux Adoption by Firms http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/peng.pdf Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the evolution of the market for Linux based products for the 1993-2003 period. Using data on 317 Linux suppliers available online, the differences in firms’ size and in their first products were explored across the adoption stages of the Linux life cycle. Then two temporal patterns of the Linux-market were identified: changes in the entry rate of new Linux suppliers and changes in product diversity. Finally, the attributes of the partnerships formed by four major Linux distributors were examined. The study determined whether the number of partnerships formed by Linux distributors was related to the number of new entrants, whether the motives for partnerships formed by Linux distributors varied over adoption stages, and whether the type of partner selected by Linux distributors was a function of partnership motive. This study builds on the literature on open source software and traditional theories of technology adoption to make three important contributions. First, it develops a method to identify the stages of the life of a new technology. Secondly, it provides a way to measure the temporal patterns of the evolution of a new market. Finally, it validates the density dependence model using data on open source. MS Thesis 2 Author: Matuska, Martin Title: Kategorisierung von Open Source Projekten: Aufbau- und Ablauforganisation (in german) - Categorization of Open Source Projects: Operational and Organizational Structure http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/matuska.pdf Abstract: The number of open source projects is growing. The largest part can be found on large develompent portals. But open source is not open source, each project has unique characteristics. This paper examines operational and organizational characteristics, licencing, communication and documentation specifications of open source projects and explains the trove categorization model introduced by SourceForge.net. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Book Editors: Fitzgerald, Brian & Bassett Graham Title: Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/opensourcelawbook.pdf Abstract: This is the publication that follows the 'Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software Conference' that was held in Brisbane, Australia on 3 July 2002. The conference examined legal and business issues facing the development and implementation of free and open source software. The presenters were lawyers, academics and software developers expert in the area drawn from Australia and the USA.

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