From m.foth at qut.edu.au Sun Jun 7 02:29:48 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 07:29:48 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] 3rd CfP: OZCHI 2009 - Deadline extended until 19 June 2009 Message-ID: <95191775-43C8-45DB-875C-240E5E96CBB4@qut.edu.au> 3rd Call for Papers: Submission deadline extended until 19 June 2009 OZCHI 2009 ? Design: Open 24/7 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) 23 ? 27 November 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.ozchi.org/ Paper submission site now open: http://precisionconference.com/~ozchi OZCHI is Australia?s leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, and social scientists. The main conference will be from Wed 25 to Fri 27 Nov 2009, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on Mon 23 and Tue 24 Nov 2009. OZCHI will take place back- to-back with HFESA 2009: http://www.hfesaconference.org.au/ scheduled to run from 22-25 Nov 2009. The venue for both conferences is the ICT building of the University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St, Parkville. We are very excited to announce the following keynote speakers for this year's OZCHI conference: .. Bill Moggridge, Co-founder of IDEO.com .. Patrick Hofmann, Head of User Experience, Google Australia .. Yvonne Rogers, Director, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Open University, UK We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Australia?s design capital. Marcus Foth, QUT Conference Chair chair at ozchi.org Important Dates Long papers, and workshop & tutorial proposals 19 Jun 2009: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE 14 Aug 2009: Notification of acceptance 28 Aug 2009: Camera ready papers deadline Short papers, industry case studies, demos & posters, and doctoral consortium 28 Aug 2009: Submission deadline 25 Sep 2009: Notification of acceptance 02 Oct 2009: Camera ready papers deadline Conference Theme The 2009 conference theme is Design: Open 24/7. Accessibility, inclusivity and dissolving boundaries are core to the Open 24/7 theme for the design of human interaction with and through digital technologies. The integration of digital technologies into our everyday life allows for a seamless transitioning between open and closed, work and leisure, public and private. Open implies participation and collaboration across traditional borders between individuals, organisations and disciplines. OZCHI 2009 provides a forum to discuss all aspects of openness, open borders, open participation, open source and open architecture. Theme-related submissions may address these topics: Open always-on real-time ubiquitous and pervasive designs Open design and universality versus situatedness, contextualisation and personalisation Open source for design ? design for open source Open mind ? new ideas, concepts and approaches from outside HCI Beyond open ? never closed: design for escapism Conference Topics Submissions in all areas of HCI are encouraged. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics: Augmented Reality Context and Location Awareness Education and HCI Health Care and HCI Innovative Design Methodologies Smart Service Delivery Sustainability Universal Usability and Accessibility Urban Informatics Tangible User Interfaces Visualisation Techniques Working across Cultures Submissions All submissions must be written in English. Both long and short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. Accepted long papers and short papers will be available in the published proceedings. At least one author of any accepted submission must register and attend the conference and present the paper for publication in the proceedings. All submissions must use the two column OZCHI proceedings template:http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/ozchipaper_template2009.doc Paper submission site now open: http://precisionconference.com/~ozchi Long Papers Full length papers, up to 8 pages, on original and substantive new work in any area of HCI are invited. Long papers should describe work that makes a significant contribution to HCI or describe broad insights gained from practical applications of HCI. Jesper Kjeldskov & Jeni Paay, CSIRO User Experience Group Technical Program Chairs program at ozchi.org Short Papers Short length papers, up to 4 pages, should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. Stephen Viller, UQ & Rebecca Schultz, WorkSafe Victoria Short Papers Chairs shorts at ozchi.org Industry Case Studies Industry Case Studies demonstrate how user experience professionals have applied human-computer interaction to create practical solutions to commercial situations. Presentations may include areas such as: challenges faced in implementing methods and techniques; development of new or improved techniques; or incorporating usability into an organisation. Submissions should contain: A 250 word summary for the conference program including: the issue addressed; what will be presented; and relevance to the HCI community. A proposal outlining the presentation and the rationale behind it, including: .. Session title .. Presenter(s) name and organisation .. A brief background of the presenter(s) and organisation .. The business problem addressed .. The approach and/or solution .. Challenges and issues that emerged throughout the project .. Benefits and limitations .. If applicable, how a similar approach or solution could be used in other contexts .. Relevance of the case study to other HCI professionals .. Technical requirements for delivering the presentation Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting & Shane Morris, Microsoft Industry Chairs industry at ozchi.org Demos & Posters Demonstrations and posters provide an attractive way to showcase real outcomes of human-computer interaction research and development. These sessions offer a platform to share ideas, concepts and work-in- progress face-to-face with the OZCHI community in a way that a paper presentation cannot. Proposals for demos and posters should be submitted on 2 pages using the OZCHI proceedings template. Ben Kraal, QUT & Ricky Robinson, NICTA Demos & Posters Chairs demos at ozchi.org Workshops & Tutorials Workshops and tutorials are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 23 and 24 Nov 2009. Proposals (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. A tutorial proposal should provide participants with clear outcomes. The workshop and tutorial program is not included in the main conference fee. Workshops are a chance for people with common interests to meet for a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in HCI, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. OZCHI workshops might address basic or applied research, HCI practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organisational issues, or HCI education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the HCI community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the your workshop proposal. Tutorials are full day or half day events designed to offer participants the opportunity to learn about specific HCI related concepts, methods and techniques. They are one of the best means of conveying introductory and advanced instruction on specific topics to an interested audience. Tutorials are a significant attraction to delegates and provide exposure in depth and breadth to HCI topics. We welcome both research and industry tutorial submissions. Tutorial submissions (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should include a clear list of outcomes for participants. Lian Loke & Toni Robertson, UTS Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Chairs workshops at ozchi.org Doctoral Consortium The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 24 Nov 2009. The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a research proposal in the format given on the OZCHI website. Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Margot Brereton, QUT Doctoral Consortium Chair dc at ozchi.org Volunteers OZCHI actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the HCI community, meet other students in the field, and attend the premier HCI conference Australia. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in HCI, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email volunteers at ozchi.org with your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a resume, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 28 Aug 2009. Hilary Davis, University of Melbourne & Debra Polson, QUT/ACID Volunteers Chairs volunteers at ozchi.org -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From m.foth at qut.edu.au Fri Jun 12 05:45:06 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:45:06 +0200 Subject: [chisigmail] Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement, 13/14 July, QUT Brisbane Message-ID: Final Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane June 19, 2009 Workshop position papers (300-500 words) due June 26, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13/14, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 Keynote Speaker Co-sponsored by HCSNet, QUT iCi and NICTA Queensland, we are pleased to announce Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in Helsinki, as the keynote speaker for this workshop. His talk "The city is here for you to use" will give us a preview of the ideas in his forthcoming new book. The keynote is open to the public, but seats are limited. If you would like to attend the keynote only, please RSVP to Julie-Anne Edwards by Tue 30 June 2009 at julieanne.edwards at qut.edu.au. Workshop participants will be admitted to the keynote automatically. Workshop Theme This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local participation and civic engagement in urban environments. Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed ?Web 2.0? to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors, location and context awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg., futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds (eg, hub2.org), and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. This workshop will be held back-to-back with an ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN) workshop on 11/12 July 2009 at QUT titled, ?Unboxing the iPhone: The Circuits of Digital Culture,? organised by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson, supported by the CRN?s Cultural Technologies Node. This will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences. http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/activities/glamm-iphone.html The workshop is also very timely in that it coincides with the six week residency of Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT, and the 2009 inaugural Queensland Innovator in Residence: http://yearofcreativity.deta.qld.gov.au/innovator.html Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human- computer interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering. The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of citizenship. Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13 and Tue 14 July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and plenary discussions. Submissions We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by Fri 19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943 You must log in to submit an abstract. If you are not a HCSNet user yet, please create an account at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register This workshop is free for anyone who has been a HCSNet member for 2 months prior to the workshop. Non-members need to pay $100 registration fee for this workshop via the online facility. Please register online by Fri 3 July 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/events/register/2943 Travel Bursaries HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers will have priority. Organisers Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From robert at grid.chu.edu.tw Sat Jun 13 05:22:30 2009 From: robert at grid.chu.edu.tw (Robert C. Hsu) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:22:30 +0800 Subject: [chisigmail] ISPAN\'09 Announcement and CFP Message-ID: <200906130922.n5D9MUQw031481@grid.chu.edu.tw> ================================================================= We apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please disseminate this CFP in any lists you subscribed and among your colleagues/students. We also take this chance to invite you (or anyone from your research group) to contribute papers to this conference. Thanks in advance. ================================================================= I-SPAN'09 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009) http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/ The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks 1. Keynote speakers 2. Special issues 3. Publication 4. Workshops 5. Important dates ================== Keynote Speakers: ================== H. J. Siegel, Fellow of IEEE and ACM, Colorado State University, USA Sataj Sahni, Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, University of Florida, USA Wen -Tsue Chen, Fellow of IEEE and CSMT, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA More information: http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/speakers.html ================= Special issues ================= Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of some international journals. The following Journals are confirmed: -Journal of Information and Science Engineering (JISE) (SCI) -International Journal of Ad-Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI) -Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) (SCI) -Telecommunication Systems (TS) (SCI) CFP -Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN) (EI) =============== Publication =============== ISPAN'09 Proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS. CPS produced content will be submitted for indexing through IET INSPEC, and EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, as well as other indexing services. =============== Workshops =============== Five Workshops will be held in conjunction with ISPAN'09. VCNA 2009 (Vehicular Communications, Networks and Applications)- http://want.cs.tku.edu.tw/VCNA2009/ GridCAT 2009 (Grid Computing, Applications and Technologies)- http://www.csie.thu.edu.tw/gridcat2009 WISH 2009 (Intelligent systems and Smart Home)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/WISH2009.html GPUTA 2009 (GPU Technologies and Applications)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/GPUTA2009.html IASM 2009 (Information Assurance and Security Management)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/IASM2009.html ================= Important Dates ================= Main conference: Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009 Workshops Manuscript Due: July 15, 2009 Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009 ======================================== For Additional Information, Please send e-mail to ispan2009 at googlegroups.com ======================================== From m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon Jun 15 08:34:24 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:34:24 +0200 Subject: [chisigmail] Digital Cities 6: Program & Final Call for Participation, PennState, 24 June 2009 Message-ID: Program & Final Call for Participation Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2009) Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA 24 June 2009 http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70107071616 If you would like to participate in this workshop (without submitting/ presenting a paper), some places are still available. Please let us know and register online at: https://www.regonline.com/cct2009 Program (draft) 09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 09.30 - 09.45 de Waal, Martijn (University of Groningen, NL): The Urban Ideals of Location Based Media 09.50 - 10.05 Fritsch, Jonas, & Brynskov, Martin (Aarhus University, DK): Between Engagement and Information: Experimental Urban Media in the Climate Change Debate 10.10 - 10.25 DiSalvo, Carl, & Lukens, Jonathan (Georgia Institute of Technology, US): Seeing the City Through Machines: Non-Anthropocentric Design and Youth Robotics 10.25 - 10.45 MORNING TEA 10.45 - 11.00 Forlano, Laura (Yale Law School, New Haven, US): TBA 11.05 - 11.20 McCarthy, Joe (Strands Labs Seattle, US): Ambient Informatics in Urban Caf?s 11.25 - 11.40 Foth, Marcus (Queensland University of Technology, AU): Urban Futures: A Performance based Approach to Residential Design 11.45 - 12.00 Fuller, Gillian, & Harley, Ross (University of New South Wales, AU): Contactless Contact: Reconceptualising Radio and Architecture in the Wireless City 12.00 - 01.00 LUNCH 01.00 - 02.00 KEYNOTE: Carlo Ratti (SENSEable City Lab, MIT, US) 02.05 - 02.20 Ojala, Timo, & Kukka, Hannu (University of Oulu, FI): A Digital City Needs Open Pervasive Computing Infrastructure 02.25 - 02.40 Halegoua, Germaine (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US): The Export of Ubiquitous Place: Investigating South Korean U-cities 02.45 - 03.00 Wong, Andrew (Telenor Research and Innovation, MY): Mobile Interactions as Social Machines: Young Urban Poor at Play in Bangladesh 03.05 - 03.20 Kirwan, Christopher Mustafa, & Travis, Sven (Parsons The New School for Design, US): UAE Urban Identities: Bridging Past Cultural Legacies with Emerging Urban Landscapes 03.20 - 03.40 AFTERNOON TEA 03.40 - 05.00 PLENARY DISCUSSION: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano at yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Urban Informatics group on facebook: http://tinyurl.com/fbqutui -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon Jun 15 09:27:15 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:27:15 +0200 Subject: [chisigmail] Adam Greenfield: Public Keynote at QUT Brisbane 14 July 2009 Message-ID: <4BE50154-6E58-4446-BC0B-3B8DED9A4F05@qut.edu.au> As part of the HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement, and NICTA Queensland's Big Picture seminar series, we are pleased to announce a public keynote presentation by Adam Greenfield Tuesday 14 July 2009, 3.45pm for 4pm start (to 5pm) LaBoite Roundhouse Theatre, 6-8 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 map: http://www.laboite.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=6 The talk will be followed by light refreshments and an opportunity to meet the speaker. Seats are limited, so please RSVP by Fri 3 July 2009 to Ms Julie-Anne Edwards at julieanne.edwards at qut.edu.au The City is Here for You to Use Over the past few years the ?computer? has begun to disappear into the fabric of everyday life, its power to collect, store, process and represent information diffusing into the objects and surfaces around us. Things as ordinary and seemingly familiar as running shoes, elevators and lampposts have been re imagined as networked devices, invested with unexpected new abilities. Meanwhile, the phones we carry have become ever more powerful ?remote controls for our lives?. Proponents and enthusiasts argue that no domain of human behaviour will be untouched by this transformation, but relatively little thought has been given to specifically how these changes might unfold at the scale of the city. How will the advent of a truly ubiquitous computing change our urban places ? both the way they are built, and the way we live them? In this talk, Everyware author Adam Greenfield tries to wrap his head around this dynamic set of conditions, to clarify what?s at stake and to offer some potential frameworks for building humane and liveable cities in the age of ambient informatics. Biography Adam Greenfield is an internationally-recognised writer, user experience consultant, and critical futurist, having worked for clients ranging from global concerns like Toyota, Capgemini, and Sony to local nonprofits. He brings audiences the most advanced thinking available on next-generation computing, with special expertise in the social, ethical and design implications of ubiquitous computing. He is currently head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia and lives in Helsinki with his wife, artist Nurri Kim. 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For more information, download the Environmental Management Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from: http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available. Commencement: ASAP Duration: Three years full-time PhD project 2: Development of a computer game to teach safety awareness skills and strategies to children to prevent them from becoming victims of child sexual abuse. The computer game can include console, desktop, mobile and multiplayer environments. The PhD candidate will receive a stipend valued at $25,000 per annum as part of the Telstra Foundation / Queensland Police Service / Daniel Morcombe Foundation project in partnership with Education Queensland and the Department of Child Safety. For more information, download the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from: http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available Commencement: ASAP Duration: Three years full-time Application Form: To apply for either of the above scholarships, please download the Computer Games PhD Scholarships application from the link above. The projects will be supervised by Dr Christian Jones at USC. Dr Jones has worked with commercial games developers including Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and has developed automotive Serious Games with Stanford University (US), Ford (US) and Toyota (Japan). For more information, please contact Dr Jones by email cmjones at usc.edu.au or telephone +61 7 5459 4849 or mobile +61 0 4243 58195. Closing date for applications is 30th June 2009 Dr Christian M. Jones, MEng (Hons) PhD CEng MIET ILTM MBCS CITP Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC Queensland 4558 Australia Phone: +61 7 5459 4849 Fax: +61 7 5430 2883 Mobile: 04243 58195 Email: cmjones at usc.edu.au http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/ChristianJones.htm From kenneth.treharne at flinders.edu.au Thu Jun 25 22:39:56 2009 From: kenneth.treharne at flinders.edu.au (Kenneth Treharne) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:09:56 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG Membership Benefits Survey Message-ID: <4A4434FC.20803@flinders.edu.au> Dear CHISIG Member, As your CHISIG membership coordinator it is my duty to ensure that your CHISIG membership delivers value and important benefits that you would not otherwise have access to. Recently, the CHISIG executive have undertaken a review of current membership benefits as well as a range of new benefits we hope to offer in the future. Part of this review process necessitates a consultation with you! We kindly request that you complete our short survey that aims to establish how satisfied you are with your current membership benefit, how you use them, and also your thoughts on a range of new benefits we think you might appreciate. This survey should take no more than five minutes of your time. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=39K3z5Ju_2bXXVR3QX5HV4Uw_3d_3d Should this survey move you to make further comment about any aspect of your membership, please feel free to email me at membership at chisig.org Finally, if you haven't already done so, I encourage you to renew your CHISIG membership this week and to check out the new http://www.chisig.org website when it comes online shortly. 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PRESENTER: Weizhen Lei, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: Self-Initiated Individual Digitalization: A Study About Transition Mechanism Of ICT Beginners Among The Rural-Urban Migrants In Beijing VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 03 Jul 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: In discussing and planning interventions around the "digital divide" people tend to think in terms of the binary oppositions of digital "haves" and "have-nots". Information and communications technologies (ICT) programs sponsored by governments and other agencies to address the "digital divide" also tend to be "top-down" initiatives that focus on the provision of institutional aid and the development of infrastructure. This study conducted a survey of 495 samples and a series of in-depth interviews with 44 people among the rural-urban migrants in Beijing. It has applied and synthesized theories of migration, digitalization and self-identity to understanding the use of digital technologies by rural-urban migrants in China. This study has explored the process through which rural-urban migrants adopt digital technologies (individual digitalization), and found that this process is spontaneous and largely self-motivated by the need of these migrants to create new identities for themselves in the city. This study also explained the interaction between this self-initiated digital transition and the migrants' need for autonomy. Please forward to others if interested. All are welcome. -- Daryl Ku PhD Candidate & Interaction Design Group Coordinator Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems Room 4.65, ICT Building University of Melbourne +61 3 834 41516 darylk at unimelb.edu.au From m.foth at qut.edu.au Fri Jun 26 18:58:31 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:58:31 -0400 Subject: [chisigmail] Learning and Research in Second Life, QUT, 24 July 2009 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <08405536-A644-46EC-9121-86AD2F433CBE@qut.edu.au> Colleagues, FYI cheers, marcus PennState From: Ross Brown Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:13:53 +1000 To: Cc: jeremy hunsinger Conversation: QUT Visit by Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: QUT Visit by Jeremy Hunsinger Hello QUT SL, Following is a notice for an SL workshop being run at QUT by Jeremy Hunsinger. Biography is attached. Regards, Ross --------------------------------- Learning and Research in Second Life Brisbane Call for Participation 1-5pm, Friday 24th July, QUT Gardens Point, QUT ? Rm S405A RSVP deadline July 15th 2009 Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This 1/2 day workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 20-30 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on three different topics: learning in Second Life, research practices in virtual worlds, and ethical research methods. In the end we will try to come to terms with how can we better integrate our research learning practices in this sphere? This workshop is targeted at people who have experience in virtual worlds and wish to work with others to improve their research and their learning experiences in world. The workshop encourages researchers to share papers by submitting them before hand and to send a short biography to jeremy.hunsinger at gmail.com. The papers and bios will be distributed amongst participants before the workshop. These papers and bios have the purpose of providing a common platform for understanding our research together during the workshop. We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate. This workshop is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger and Ross Brown Sponsored by QUT, Faculty of Creative Industries. Contact Dr Ross Brown ? r.brown at qut.edu.au for any further details. QUT Location - http://tinyurl.com/l3hd97 Campus Map - http://www.qut.edu.au/about/location/pdf/gardenspoint_map_colour.pdf ============================================ Dr Ross Brown Senior Lecturer Information Systems Program School of Information Technology QUT, Brisbane, Australia ============================================ phone : +61 07 3138 9481 email : r.brown at qut.edu.au web : www.bpmve.org ============================================ "The Iron never lies to you." - Henry Rollins ============================================ ------ End of Forwarded Message -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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