Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary field that has attracted researchers, educators, and practitioners from different disciplines. HCI has gained attention during recent years due to the rapid development and advancement in information and computer technology. To better use advanced technology, we need to better understand users, their tasks within different contexts, and the interplay among users, tasks, and contexts/environments.
In the MIS field, broad HCI issues and research questions have been investigated over a long period of time. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or Human Factors studies in MIS are concerned with the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks, especially in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. MIS researchers study these issues in organizational, business, and personal contexts or take these contexts into consideration in their studies.
The high level of interest exhibited by MIS scholars in broad HCI studies has been demonstrated in many ways:
1. The high number of hits from queries to the ISWORLD Faculty Directory on research and teaching in HCI related areas (see Zhang et al., 2002 in CAIS);
2. The high level of participation in HCI specific events sponsored by the AIS SIGHCI (please refer to http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci for more information);
3.The high level of participation in the HCI track/minitrack at AMCIS 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. At the last five AMCIS conferences, the HCI in MIS track (or minitrack prior to AMCIS 2004) was among the most popular ones at AMCIS.
This increasing trend of interest and enthusiasm was exhibited by the large number of submissions and the high level of participation during the last few years. A meta/mega track is necessary so that
(1) it is possible to attend to specific research areas within HCI in MIS,
(2) more HCI researchers can be involved, play important organizing roles, and make an impact in this area, and
(3) the overall reviewing process for submissions in this area can be more efficiently and better managed.
The aim of this track is consistent with the HCI in MIS track/minitrack in previous years at AMCIS. We want to provide a forum for AIS members to acknowledge each other's work, and to discuss, develop, and promote a range of issues related to HCI in MIS, including the history, reference disciplines, theories, practice, methodologies and techniques, new development, and applications of the interaction between humans, information and information technology. In an effort to bridge academic research and industry practice, both research articles and experience reports are welcome. The track is open to all types of research methodologies (e.g., conceptualization, theorization, case study, action research, experimentation, survey, simulation). We also welcome visionary articles and research in progress papers.
