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[eccr] cfp 2nd int. conference on communities and technologies

Tue Aug 03 22:33:04 GMT 2004


>         Call for Papers
>
>         The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies 
> (C&T
>         2005)Milan, Italy, 13-16 June, 2005
>         http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/
>
>         The relationship between communities and technology is an 
> increasingly
>         important research topic as the number of communities turning to 
> technology
>         for online and face-to-face support grows. The Second International
>         Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005) conference 
> provides a
>         forum for stimulating and disseminating research about all facets of
>         community and technology support for communities.
>         To be successful this field requires multidisciplinary research 
> efforts
>         involving researchers from different fields of applied computer 
> science
>         (Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Computer Supported 
> Collaborative
>         Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Human 
> Computer
>         Interaction, Information Systems), the social sciences (Economics,
>         Management Science, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, 
> Ethnography,
>         Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Economics) and many application 
> areas, such
>         as Education, Business, Medicine and civic engagement.
>         Communities are social entities whose participants share common 
> goals,
>         needs, interests, and practices: they constitute the basic units 
> of social
>         experience. For a number of reasons, researchers are increasingly 
> interested
>         in the topic of communities. First, within a global 
> knowledge-based society,
>         communities play a pivotal role. Problems such as new forms of 
> political
>         participation and civic engagement, maintenance of cultural 
> identity, or the
>         integration of minorities need to be tackled on the community 
> level. Second,
>         communities also re-shape the processes of learning and sharing 
> knowledge in
>         and among organizations, formal and informal groups. The Internet 
> and the
>         Web make communication possible across national boundaries and 
> between
>         cultures in ways that could not happen before. Furthermore, 
> mobile devices,
>         particularly advanced phone technologies, promise to open the 
> Internet to
>         people who have been denied access for financial, technical and 
> cultural
>         reasons.
>         For information technologies to support communities research is 
> needed to
>         understand the social, technical and usability needs of 
> participants. Many
>         topics need to be addressed including: trust-building, maintaining
>         (awareness of) social relations, social capital, visualization of 
> social
>         relationships, matching (unknown) participants, bridging between 
> physical
>         and electronically-mediated interaction, cultural needs.
>
>         The conference offers an opportunity to present and discuss 
> empirical and
>         conceptual research. Topics covered include, but are not 
> restricted to the
>         following subjects:
>
>         Social science approaches of communities and technologies:
>         ·     models and theories
>         ·     online communities and organization theory
>         ·     communities and social network analysis
>         ·     ethnographic studies of virtual communities
>         Social dimensions of community technologies:
>         ·     privacy and security
>         ·     empathy and trust
>         ·     participation and non-participation
>         ·     community learning
>         Local communities and social capital:
>         ·     technologies and social capital development
>         ·     community informatics / digital cities
>         ·     case studies of community building and development
>         ·     cross-cultural communities
>         ·     communities and NGO's
>         ·     local, rural and regional communities
>         Communities in organizations and business:
>         ·     communities and business models
>         ·     consumer communities and electronic commerce
>         ·     online consumer and brand communities
>         ·     communities and knowledge management
>         Communities and innovation:
>         ·     communities of practice and communities of interest
>         ·     communities and innovation
>         ·     open source communities
>         ·     epistemic communities and technology development
>         Technologies for community support:
>         ·     virtual, networked and mobile community formation and 
> development
>         ·     novel forms of technology support
>         ·     design and development methods
>         ·     technical architectures
>         ·     interoperability among community systems
>         ·     virtual community support for education, business, 
> government, civic
>         activities, et
>         ·     light-weight technologies
>         ·     visualization
>
>
>         Paper submission
>         Full research papers of not more than 20 pages should be produced 
> in the
>         conference publications format . Papers must be submitted 
> electronically.
>         The conference website will have a facility for this.
>
>         Workshops
>         Proposals should be no longer than 4 pages in the conference 
> publications
>         format and should include a summary of no more than 150 words 
> describing the
>         theme(s) of the workshop, a longer description of the workshop 
> activities
>         and goals, the background of the organizer(s), the maximum number of
>         participants, the means of soliciting participation, and the means of
>         selecting participants. Submissions are due in PDF or Word format 
> attached
>         to an email sent to the following email address:
>         (workshop-cct2005 /at/ disco.unimib.it); the sender's email address will 
> be used
>         for further contacts.
>
>         Proceedings
>         The proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
>
>         Important Dates:
>         November, 12, 2004: Submission deadline for papers proposals;
>         December, 03, 2004: Submission deadline for workshop proposals;
>         December, 23, 2004: Notification of acceptance for workshops;
>         January, 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance for papers;
>         February, 15, 2005: Submission of camera-ready papers;
>         May, 13, 2005: early registration;
>         June, 13 to 16, 2005: Conference held in Milano.
>
>         COMMITTEES
>
>         Conference Co-Chairs:
>         Giorgio De Michelis             - University of Milano Bicocca
>         Carla Simone            - University of Milano Bicocca
>         Programme Co-Chairs:
>         Jennifer Preece                 - University of Maryland 
> Baltimore County
>         Peter van den Besselaar - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and 
> Sciences and
>         University of Amsterdam
>         Workshops Chair:
>         Fiorella De Cindio              - University of Milano
>         Organization Co-Chairs:
>         Alessandra Agostini             - University of Milano
>         Marcello Sarini                 - University of Milano Bicocca
>
>         Programme Committee (to be completed)
>
>         Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy
>         Erik Andriessen, TU Delft, The Netherlands
>         Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
>         Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany
>         John Carroll, Virginia Tech,   USA
>         Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada
>         Elesabeth Davenport, Napier University, USA
>         Peter Day, University of Brighton, UK
>         Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy
>         Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
>         ValerieFrissen, TNO-STB, Delft, The Netherlands
>         Manuel Heitor, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
>         Thomas Herrmann, University of Dortmund, Germany
>         Pamela Hinds, Stanford University, USA
>         Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>         Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>         Yasmin Kaifa, UCLA, USA
>         Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
>         Helmut Krmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
>         Brian Loader, University of Teeside, UK
>         Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany
>         Mark Maybury, MITRE,  Bedford, USA
>         Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway
>         Keiichi Nakata, University of Tokio, Japan
>         Bernhard Nett, University of Freiburg & Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany
>         Volkmar Pipek, University of Bonn, Germany
>         Jenny Preece, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
>         Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
>         Markus Perkmann, Warwick Business School, UK
>         Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
>         Markus Rohde, Int. Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn, Germany
>         Harry Scarbrough, Warwick Business School, UK
>         Doug Schuler, Evergreen State Collges, USA
>         Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich, Switzerland
>         Carla Simone, University of Milano Bicocca,  Italy
>         Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA
>         Larry Stillman, Monash University,  Australia
>         Peter van Baalen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
>         Peter van den Besselaar,  KNAW, The Netherlands
>         Suzanne Weisband, University of Arizona, USA
>         Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
>         Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany
>

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