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  Volume 12 Article 1 Issue 1 Editorial: User Involvement and User BehaviorVolume 12, Issue 1, pp. 1–4, March 2011  Marcus A. Rothenberger Department of Management Information Systems University of Nevada Las Vegas marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu    Editorial: User Involvement and User Behavior 2 Volume 12 Issue 1 Article 1 THE CURRENT ISSUE  In this issue we publish two research articles that relate to the behavior and involvement of the user. The first article (Galluch and Thatcher 2011) examines user intentions in the context of internet technology in the classroom.  The paper defines faithful and maladaptive use and proposes a model that incorporates several predictors for internet use intentions based on constructs from the technology diffusion literature.  The authors empirically test the model using data from 353 respondents using Partial Least Square (PLS). The results support different sets of predictors for faithful and maladaptive use; the study therefore demonstrates that the intention to cyber-slack differs from the intention to use.  The contributions of this article have practical implications for the use of technology in the classroom and also call for further research on maladaptive system use.  The second article (Tuunanen et al. 2011) uses a design science approach to propose a requirements engineering procedure that helps to engage blind users in requirements collection. The procedure incorporates techniques that account for the needs of this user group.  The paper demonstrates the use of the proposed procedures in a requirements collection effort for mobile service applications.  The study evaluates the proposed procedure using a follow-up survey to the requirements collection effort, concluding that the major objectives of the procedure were met.  The proposed procedure is a first step towards making requirements engineering more accessible to blind users; the article calls for additional research towards this goal.  REFERENCES Galluch, P.S. and J. Thatcher, “Maladaptive vs. Faithful Use of Internet Applications in the Classroom: An Empirical Examination,” Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 2011, 12:1, pp. 5- 22. Tuunanen, T., K. Peffers, and S. Hebler, “Designed Procedures for Engineering System Feature Requirements with Users Who Are Blind,” Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 2011, 12:1, pp. 23-44.   Volume 12 Issue 1 3 Article 1                                                    Copyright © 2011 by the Association for Information Systems. 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Box 2712 Atlanta, GA, 30301-2712 Attn: Reprints or via e-mail from ais@aisnet.org.     4 Volume 12 Issue 1 Article 1  JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY THEORY AND APPLICATION   Editors-in-Chief  Marcus Rothenberger University of Nevada Las Vegas  Mark Srite University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee  Tuure Tuunanen University of Oulu   Emeritus Editors-in-Chief Ken Peffers (Founding Editor) University of Nevada Las Vegas Rajiv Kishore State University of New York, Buffalo Senior Advisory Board Tung Bui University of Hawaii Gurpreet Dhillon Virginia Commonwealth Univ Brian L. Dos Santos University of Louisville Sirkka Jarvenpaa University of Texas at Austin Robert Kauffman Arizona State University Julie Kendall Rutgers University Ken Kendall Rutgers University Ting-Peng Liang Nat Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung Ephraim McLean Georgia State University Timo Saarinen Helsinki School of Economics Edward A. Stohr Stevens Institute of Technology J. Christopher Westland HKUST Senior Editors Jerry Chang University of Nevada Las Vegas Kevin Crowston Syracuse University Wendy Hui University of Nottingham Ningbo Karlheinz Kautz Copenhagen Business School Yong Jin Kim Sogang University Peter Axel Nielsen Aalborg University Balaji Rajagopalan Oakland University J.P. Shim Mississippi State University Murray Turoff New Jersey Inst. of Technology Jason Thatcher Clemson University Editorial Review Board Murugan Anandarajan Drexel University Francis Kofi  Andoh-Baidoo University of Texas Pan American Patrick Chau The University of Hong Kong Brian John Corbitt Deakin University Khalil Drira Lab. d’Architecture et d’Analyse des Systèmes, Toulouse Lee A. Freeman The University of Michigan Dearborn Peter Green University of Queensland Chang-tseh Hsieh University of Southern Mississippi Peter Kueng Credit Suisse, Zurich Glenn Lowry United Arab Emirates University David Yuh Foong Law National Univ of Singapore Nirup M. Menon University of Texas at Dallas Vijay Mookerjee University of Texas at Dallas David Paper Utah State University Georg Peters Munich Univ of Appl. Sciences Mahesh S. Raisinghan University of Dallas Rahul Singh Univ of N. Carolina, Greensboro Jeffrey M. Stanton Syracuse University Issa Traore University of Victoria, BC Ramesh Venkataraman Indiana University Jonathan D. Wareham Georgia State University      JITTA is a Publication of the Association for Information Systems ISSN: 1532-3416 

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