Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2008

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

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