Contribute to the encyclopedia!

It's a long established fact: Research accessible online is more widely cited than traditional published research. Please contribute with an Encyclopedia Entry on your favourite research topic: It will be widely cited and be read by numerous newcomers to our field.

What’s in it for you?

1. We give your encyclopedia entry maximum exposure: Your entry will be featured:
• on the front page of Interaction-Design.org (currently over 68200 unique visitors a month)
• on the Encyclopedia notification mailing list (currently over 843 members)
• in the RSS news feeds (currently app. 531 daily update requests)
2. Your encyclopedia entry and your author page will receive a substantial amount of the site’s visitors. This will make many people aware of your research
3. You will have a strong influence on how an important term in our discipline will be understood
4. Your entry will be widely cited
5. You may position your own research in the definition of a term of our disclipline
6. Because of the Creative Commons approach to copyright, you retain your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit. This ensures dissemination of your entry throughout the community, giving it further exposure. It also allows you to republish your work elsewhere.

Lastly, thinking of the gratitude of your readers and the community may just help you sleep even better at night...

Interested? Here is how you do...

1. Suggest a term you think should be added, briefly explaining why you have the expertise to write about it. Await the go-ahead.
2. Write your encyclopedia entry, keeping these suggestions in mind.
3. Submit your work by emailing it to reviewers@interaction-design.org (e.g. in a MS Word document). Your submission will be peer-reviewed by at least two people with a strong background in Interaction Design, HCI, or related discipline, on the basis the editorial policy.
4. Your work is published. Congratulations!

Simple and Fair Copyright!

The copyright terms are simple.

Encyclopedia entries are copyrighted through the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, which makes the Encyclopedia an open-content information source. With this license, you retain your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit. Please see the copyright page for full details.

Also, to make sure you get applicable credit when visitors cite your encyclopedia entry, a link on "How to reference this page" is included at the top of each page.

Don't know what topic to write about?

Here are some suggestions for encyclopedia entries:

Adaptive Interfaces, Affection And Interaction Design, Card Sorting, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Walkthrough, Collective Intelligence, Colour Theory, Constructionism, Conversation Theory, CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work), Cyborg Research, Declarative knowledge, Design Standards, End-User Programming, Episodic memory, Ergonomics, Ethnography (Ethnographic studies), Experimental design and experimental research methods, Extreme Characters and Interaction Relabelling, Fundamental Attribution Error, Future Workshops, GOMS (Goals Operators Methods and Selection Rules), Hick's Law, Information Architecture, Information Processing Theory, Information Visualization, Patterns Alexandrian, Pervasive or Ubiquitous Computing, Psychology of Aesthetics, Psychology of Programming, Qualitative Interviews, Rapid Prototyping, Recall Versus Recognition Memory Tasks, ROI - Return On Investment and Interation Design, SIGCHI, Storyboards and Storyboarding, TableTop Interaction, Tactiliy and Interaction Design, Tagging and/or Folksonomy, Task analysis, Think Aloud Protocol, Usability, Usability Testing, Use Case and Use Case Analysis, Wireframes, Workflows and Workflow Analysis, ... [Add a term to this list]

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