Journal website : http:\/\/edc.revues.org\/<\/p>\n
Coordinated by: Ghislaine Chartron (DICEN, CNAM-INTD), St\u00e9phane Chaudiron (GERiiCO, University of Lille 3) and Madjid Ihadjadene (Paragraphe, University of Paris 8)<\/p>\n
In 1976, graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman introduced the concept of \u201cInformation architecture\u201d in response to the ever-increasing quantity of information produced and exchanged in contemporary society : \u00ab\u00a0I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systemic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb. In 1986, James C. Brancheau and James C. Wetherbe published \u201cInformation architectures\u00a0: Methods and practice\u201d in the journal Information<\/em> Processing & Management. <\/em>The authors use the concept to refer to a profile of corporate information categories, used to assess organizational information needs. In 1996, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville published \u201cInformation Architecture for the World Wide Web\u201d and became the pioneers in the field of organizing information in websites, intranets and software applications to help users fulfill their needs.<\/p>\n The concepts of information architecture and information architect are therefore not new. These concepts have been modified and adapted over the past several decades, and today there is renewed interest in the field of information architecture, especially in North America, where information architects have created an association, the IA Institute<\/em> (IAI). In information architecture, three types of competencies seem to stand out: technical design, content organization and web design, which has been particularly emphasized in recent years.<\/p>\n By analogy with the physical architecture of buildings designed in the real world, information architecture concerns the spatial and temporal organization of information, content structuring, content interaction design and information design. Information architecture thus refers to the underlying organizational structure of a content system (text, image, video). Information architecture, while primarily used in web-based systems, can be applied to any complex informational ecosystem, in particular mobile devices such as smartphones, e-books, video games or serious games. The issue of information architecture has also been raised within the area of digital humanities, particularly with regard to digital art and culture, digital museography, the representation and staging of archeological objects\u2026<\/p>\n Any information system conceived as a form of knowledge mediation raises the question of information architecture, which revolves around several main elements: systems of representation and storage, content representation methods (metadata, visual representations\u2026), information access tools and interfaces (catalogs, bibliographic tools, browsing, search functions\u2026) and processing functions.<\/p>\n Information architecture can be considered from a wide variety of perspectives (visualization, computer programming, ergonomics, semiotics, linguistics, etc.) but the particularity of the Information-Communication Science approach is its holistic view of these approaches. This special issue of Etudes de Communication aims to address the operational dimension of the concept of \u201cinformation architecture\u201d. More than a presentation of design methods and their results, this issue seeks to analyze the scientific relevance of the concept of information architecture, in a critical perspective.<\/p>\n We solicit proposals in the following areas:<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The theoretical foundations of information architecture,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Information architecture methods and techniques,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cultural issues in information architecture,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Development of information architecture in organizations,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Differentiated architecture design for different media (websites, mobile devices, graphic tablets\u2026),<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digital content structuring and editing\u00a0 and content strategies,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Organization, representation and mediation of information content,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interface design and information design (conception, contextualization, evaluation, appropriation),<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Information access, \u201cfindability\u201d, \u201cusability\u201d<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 User experience,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Information architecture and cognitive transformations,<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 User-centered conception and evaluation methods<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Scientific committee<\/strong><\/p>\n Inge Alberts, Universit\u00e9 d’Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n Thierry Baccino, Lutin UserLab, Cit\u00e9 des Sciences et de l\u2019industrie<\/p>\n \u00c9velyne Broudoux, CNAM-INTD<\/p>\n Stefano Bussolon, Information Architect – Interaction Designer, Italie<\/p>\n St\u00e9phane Caro Dambreville, Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux 3<\/p>\n Beno\u00eet Habert, ENS Lyon<\/p>\n Seth van Hooland, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique<\/p>\n Yves Marcoux, EBSI, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n Jean-Guy Meunier, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, Universit\u00e9 de Valenciennes<\/p>\n Bernhard Rieder, University of Amsderdam, Pays-Bas<\/p>\n Jean-Michel Sala\u00fcn, ENS Lyon<\/p>\n Emmanuel Sander, Universit\u00e9 de Paris 8<\/p>\n Joachim Sch\u00f6pfel, Universit\u00e9 de Lille 3<\/p>\n Isma\u00efl Timimi, Universit\u00e9 de Lille 3<\/p>\n Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield, Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Review process<\/strong><\/p>\n All submissions will go through a two-part review process:<\/p>\n 1-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submission of a 1500-2000 word<\/span> abstract which should include a presentation of objectives and principle arguments, explain the originality of the paper and provide key bibliographical references,<\/p>\n 2-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For accepted abstracts, a second evaluation will take place for final papers (30\u00a0000 characters including spaces)<\/p>\n Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two anonymous referees. Instructions for authors are available at the journal homepage http:\/\/edc.revues.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Abstracts should be submitted in Word (.doc) or PDF and sent to the following email addresses:<\/p>\n ghislaine.chartron@cnam.fr<\/a><\/p>\n