Social Networking and Communities - The big and the small screen
26-27 November, 2009
Aalborg University Copenhagen
Denmark
First Call for Papers
The Second CMI conference
http://conf.cmi.aau.dk/
Worldwide, people connect via the web and extend
their social communities beyond what could ever
have been realized without the web. Denmark
globally has one of the highest numbers of users
of web-based social networking sites per
habitant. Till now, users of web-based social
networking and communities have mainly used
traditional computers with large screens. For
many users, the concept of social networking
means always on which sets focus on the trend of
being able to do social networking also on smart
phones and other smaller screens. The transition
from the big screen to the small screen in
relation to social networking and communities
outlines a number of challenges that the second
CMI conference will discuss. Areas to be
discussed are: how to secure the privacy for
social network users; which are the demands to
operators/content providers on the price
structure; how can the technological
sustainability be secured with the smaller
screens; which are the alternative interaction
mechanisms to secure that users still have a
good user experience; which new types of
services will be relevant to mobile devices; how
will the different initiatives and services
coexist and which demands must be set to the
standardization when convergence takes place in this way?
The second CMI conference discusses the demands
and challenges set out to the market and the
stakeholders; to the technology and the
interaction between users and the technology;
and the users and their demands to the mobile
part of the web-based social networking. CMI
welcomes extended abstracts related to research
on computer based social networking with
particular focus on the following topics (but is in no way limited to):
? Mobility and social networks
? Privacy and trust in social networks
? User generated content and applications
? User experience and acceptance of social network initiatives
? New interaction mechanisms in social networks
? New services and applications for mobile
devices facilitating social networks
? Business models for social networks
? Standardization and regulation aspects of mobile social networks
? Convergence in social networks
? Professional social networks and organisational impacts
For instructions for authors, please visit http://conf.cmi.aau.dk/
Deadlines:
Abstracts (maximum 2 pages): August 14
Abstract acceptance notification: September 1
Full papers submission: October 30
Best regards
Anders Henten
