CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ARCADIAN VIRTUALITY II:
Second i3 Workshop on Ecological Information Spaces
Athens, Greece, March 3, 2000
*** Deadline 24th January 2000: ***
ORGANISERS
Alan Munro, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
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Andrew McGrath, BT Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK.
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VENUE
The Training and Conference Center of the National Bank of Greece S.A.,
Athens, Greece ( http://server.travelling.gr/conekt/ ) as part of i3 Spring
Days. It will be a 1 day workshop.
THEME AND BACKGROUND:-
"How would we build or foster a populated virtual ecology?"
Following on from our first Arcadian Virtuality workshop, which produced a
lively and intriguing series of talks (see our web page kindly hosted by
SICS:- http://www.sics.se/arcadia), we wish to host a second workshop. The
first event attracted a wide range of researchers and we wish the
discussion to continue to develop, especially between different communities
of researchers, whether A-lifers, sociologists, cyberneticists, biologists,
as well as of course those working with CVEs or augmented environments.
WHAT MIGHT A POPULATED VIRTUAL ECOLOGY BE (FOR)?
We imagine a space which is persistent, which not only contains user
representations and that of data, but an auntonomous ecology which acts in
the environment, constitutes it, follows its own rhythms, rhythms to which
we are aligned and to which we orient. The ecology will necessarily be a
hybrid combination of top down rules and bottom up rules, combining and
interacting with the 'inhabitants' to create a complex emerging system. What
will be the purpose of the ecological space? Is it a backdrop to a game, a
community, a portal to services or an engine to power your information
resources, whatever the purpose of the ecology how will you specify, design
or foster such an environment?
Our Virtual Ecology's relation to us as users and the different
'inhabitants' is open to discussion. The ecology will probably not be just
an analogy or series of metaphors, but may be a description of the way in
which it will operate. It may well have artificial 'organisms' which live
in it and occupy various ecological niches. There may be 'physical laws' in
the space to which all organisms have to orient, in a similar way that in
the real world we do to real world laws. This workshop promises to be a
stimulating, challenging one.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ricardo Antonini, (University di Roma, Italy)
David Benyon (Napier University, Edinburgh, UK)
Elizabeth Churchill (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA)
Kristina Höök (SICS, Sweden)
Andrew McGrath (BT Adastral Park, UK)
Alan Munro (Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Paul Sinnadurai (English Nature, UK)
Dave Snowdon (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
PARTICIPATION
Participation in the workshop will be by:
1. 3-6 page position paper in CHI format,(see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chipubform/) in Word 6.0/95, RTF or Adobe
PDF.
2. Demo: this must be described in a 3-6 page description (Chi Format as
above).
Please send to organisers at email address above.
DEADLINES
24th January 2000 Deadline for submissions
4th February 2000 Notification of acceptance
3rd March 2000 Workshop
This workshop is being organised as part of the Spring Days 2000 workshop
cluster (organised by i3 Net). More information on Spring Days can be found
at: http://www.dfki.de/imedia/workshops/i3-spring00/ Workshop attendees
will be free to participate in any of the other workshops taking place at
Spring Days 2000. It will be open to the Spring Days community to take
part as an audience. By arrangement they may also take part in the
different sessions in a more active way.
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