Contribute to the encyclopedia!

NOTE: By invitation only!

Our very first priority is dissemination of the encyclopedia - getting it as widely read and adopted as possible - not making a profit. And the enormous number of readers of the last 2 entries, by Jack Carroll and Jonas Löwgren, have shown the potential (Jack's entry - Jonas' entry).

But we can do even better: Our ambition is to make the encyclopedia the preferred textbook of the HCI/Interaction Design/User Experience community. Nothing less!

Our ambition can only be achieved by parting with traditional copyright, which favours the publisher and the profit, not the reader and the author. Our approach to copyright enables us to reach way more classrooms and professional communities than traditional publishers - one example is the booming interest of Chinese and Indian readers.

We disseminate your work effectively!

The last encyclopedia entry we published (written by Jonas Löwgren) had app. 3000 readers on its first week of publication and that number has slowly dropped to an average of 30 readers a day (actual human visitors, visiting the page for at least 4 minutes)
You will have a strong influence on how an important term in our discipline will be understood by thousands and thousands of readers. You may position your own research in the definition of this term.
Your entry will be featured:

on the front page of Interaction-Design.org (currently over 1.2 mio. unique visitors a year, 3143 a day)
in a teaser text on all 115.402 pages on Interaction-Design.org
by our network of blog owners and on numerous mailing lists. New encyclopedia entries are usually featured on the most popular and influential blogs of our field.
on the Encyclopedia notification mailing list (currently 1689 members)
in our facebook feed (going out to over 380 friends/fans)
in the RSS news feeds (currently app. 1178 daily readers)

Your entry will be widely read and cited: For example, Jonas' entry is featured on numerous blogs and every week we discover new university courses around the world, which use selected encyclopedia entries from our encyclopedia
We will send you a statistics report (example) each month with details on how your entry is adopted and read around the world.
You get a very constructive and helpful double-blinded review process (i.e. no "angry young researchers")
We use the Creative Commons approach to copyright to disseminate your work as widely as possible. With this licence you retain your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit
Your encyclopedia entry and your author page will receive a substantial amount of the site’s visitors. This will make many people more aware of your other research.

Here is how you do...

Get the go-ahead from the editorial board
Write your encyclopedia entry, keeping these suggestions in mind.
Submit your work by emailing it to mads@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, based on the editorial policy.
Your work is published. You will receive a statistics report (example) each month with details on how your work is adopted and read around the world.

Simple and Fair Copyright!

The copyright terms are simple.

We believe in democratization of knowledge. We don't wrap your work in a straight jacket of excessive copyright. And we don't hide your work behind payment systems or in expensive textbooks! Nor in esoteric research databases where your work will only be read by people from a narrow community.

Encyclopedia entries are copyrighted through the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence because dissemination of knowledge and making research accessible is our first priority! Not making a profit! This 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.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to make contact.

The poeple behind

“We believe in democratization of knowledge. We don't wrap your work in a straight jacket of excessive copyright. And we don't hide your work behind payment systems or in expensive textbooks!”