Here is a call for submission for a new journal to be launched at the end of this year. It deals with several areas that my thesis’ research covers so I am considering submitting a paper.

The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) announces the launch of a new publication in the fourth quarter of 2005, the Journal of Usability Studies.
This publication will be a peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to promoting and enhancing the practice, research, ethics, and education of usability engineering.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts addressing various aspects of quantitative and qualitative usability studies that have a strong generalization value to other practitioners working with any human-interactive product.
This can include (but are not limited to):

  • empirical findings of usability studies (but not the full usability
    reports),
  • comparative studies between usability methods, approaches, methods,
    and techniques for planning and conducting usability tests
  • newly defined and tested usability metrics,
  • data analysis approaches,
  • academic research that has strong practical and applicable
    implications to design and testing,
  • critical or thought/discussion papers challenging and questioning
    practices and proposing innovative ideas and approaches,
  • reporting the design and implementation of teaching or training
    approaches,
  • descriptions and discussions of automated, computerized tools for
    usability data collection and testing, or
  • the empirical development and implementation of usability standards
    and guidelines.

‘Usability studies’ can include:

  • experiments,
  • laboratory studies,
  • field studies,
  • contextual inquiries,
  • ethnographic studies,
  • remote testing,
  • expert or heuristic evaluations,
  • model-based evaluations
  • and other techniques

The journal will appear online quarterly starting the last quarter of 2005

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