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CONTENTS
o Editor's space
o Design Studies
o Doctoral Education in Design conference
o Research into Practice conference
o Human Brain lives in the past
o Calls for Papers
o Announcements
o Questions, questions
o Cyber News
o The Design Research Society: details of membership
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to DRS_NEWS
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EDITOR'S SPACE
Please note that registration is open for the conferences:
Doctoral Education in Design, CoDesigning, and Research into
Practice, all to be held this summer (in the Northern Hemisphere
that is).
Next month will be news about the DRS annual meeting and
presentation of the Design Studies Award, which takes place
today, 1 April.
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DESIGN STUDIES - Vol 21 No 2
The March 2000 issue of Design Studies is a special issue on
web-based AI design tools, guest edited by Paul Rodgers and Avon
Huxor.
Contents:
Analysing participation in collaborative design environments
SJ Simoff, ML Maher
pp 119-144
A web-based system for design artifact modeling
S Szykman, J Racz, C Bochenek, RD Sriram
pp 145-165
A web broker for component retrieval in mechanical engineering
CT Charlton, KM Wallace
pp 167-186
Supporting collaborative design groups as design communities
DL Craig, C Zimring
pp 187-204
Filter mediated design: generating coherence of collaborative
design J Haymaker, P Keel, E Ackermann, W Porter
pp 205-220
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/03021
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DOCTORAL EDUCATION IN DESIGN: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
La Clusaz, France, 8-12 july 2000
Registration is now open. See:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/phd-design/files/france.htm
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REGISTRATION INVITATION
RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
HERTFORDSHIRE 7 JULY 2000
Your registration is now invited for this one-day conference.
The central theme is to examine the foundations of
practice-based research in art and design. Models of research
through practice may be found in the professional development of
the subject through exhibited and award-winning artefacts, in
accrued historical evidence in collections, in academic studies
and their assessment in the RAE, etc. We are particularly
interested in how any of these models can be mapped onto
research degree regulations to provide paradigms of research
through practice for students and their supervisors.
The conference will feature four keynote speakers and eighteen
workshop presentations. There will also be an exhibition of
practice-based research and a performance. Lunch, endless tea
and coffee, and an opportunity to network, will be provided all
day. Abstracts of workshop papers will be available on the
conference website shortly.
For information about the "Research into Practice" conference go
to http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/conex/res2prac/
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HUMAN BRAIN LIVES IN THE PAST
If you think you're living in the past, you're right and science
can tell you just how far behind the times you are. According to
a new Salk study, it's at least 80 milliseconds, just slightly
longer than the blink of an eye.
"What you think you're seeing at any given moment is actually
influenced by the future," said David Eagleman, lead author of a
study in the current issue of Science. "This doesn't mean the
brain is clairvoyant, however."
He compared the timing of conscious perception to the
broadcasting of a live television show, "which is actually not
live. The show is delayed by about three seconds, so it can be
edited if something happens. The brain does the same thing."
Using a visual illusion known as the flash-lag phenomenon,
Eagleman and Salk Professor Terrence Sejnowski showed that the
human brain appears to construct conscious awareness in an
after-the-fact fashion, which they term postdiction.
Their findings counter a leading hypothesis that visual
awareness is predictive, extrapolating ahead of perceived
events.
"In fact," said Sejnowski," it looks like the conscious mind is
just catching up on past information."
The paper is: D. M. Eagleman and T. J. Sejnowski (2000)
Motion Integration and Postdiction in Visual Awareness. Science,
Volume 287, Number 5460, pp. 2036-2038
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
* 28 November - 1 December 2000: PDC 2000 - the
Participatory Design Conference "Designing Digital
Environments - Bringing in More Voices" New York City, USA
Participatory Design (PD) is a set of diverse ways of
thinking, planning, and acting through which people make
their work, technologies, and social institutions more
responsive to human needs. The Participatory Design
conferences, held every two years since 1990, have brought
together a multidisciplinary and international group of
researchers, designers, practitioners, users, and managers.
The disconnection of the design of technology from the
context of its use is well documented, yet the gap between
design and use seems to be getting wider.
Visit the Participatory Design Conference website:
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000
* 9-11 APRIL 2001: The First International Conference on
people centred research in the Information Society is being
planned to be held in Newcastle upon Tyne UK.
The Conference aims to bring together researchers in the
field of human aspects of the Information Society.
If you are interested in receiving information about the
conference please contact Maureen Dickson. Administrator,
IMRI at [log in to unmask] or by telephone 0191 227
3222 or fax 0191 227 3671.
* 7-10 DECEMBER 2000: ISEA2000, 10th International
Symposium on Electronic Art Paris, France. CALL FOR PAPERS
AND PARTICIPATION Deadline EXTENDED: April 30, 2000
ISEA2000 http://www.art3000.com http://www.isea.qc.ca Email
[log in to unmask]
* 5-8 September 2000: Call for Papers HCI 2000
Usability or else! University of Sunderland St Peter's
Campus
http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/hci2000
HCI 2000 will cover all main areas of HCI research and
practice, but will focus on usability engineering for
e-business. While HCI approaches have penetrated many
application areas, bringing clear benefits over the last
decade, electronic business will nail down usability as an
essential design goal. The HCI community will be expected
to respond with ever-improved methods, techniques and
design approaches that ensure that usability is taken
seriously from conception through design and development to
installation and operation. Industry Day - Call for Papers -
by May 3, 2000
We invite short and long papers for Industry Day.
Contact details: Industry Day chair (Mary Jones -
[log in to unmask]).
Conference Office email: [log in to unmask]
* 14-15 November 2000: First announcement, Design and
the Emerging E-Commerce Environment. An International
Symposium Organised by the Department of Architecture,
University of Edinburgh and EUROPIA Productions, Paris,
France
http://europia.org/DEECE [log in to unmask]
* 13-14 December 2000: Second announcement, The 3rd
International Conference on Human System Learning CAPS'3:
Learning's WWW Organised by the: University of Caen EUROPIA
Productions, Paris, France Paris - France
Topics of CAPS'3
- Web Based Learning,
- WAP Based Learning,
- Web Mining,
- Agent-Based Learning and E-Book
The Information Society is looming and new technology is
shifting educational, learning and training paradigms.
Virtual Universities, Cyber-Classrooms, Web Based Learning,
WAP Based Learning, etc. may be cryptic catch phrases now
but will be the norm within a decade. Web Based Learning is
one of the new practices of teaching and learning enabled by
the Internet and WWW. WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Based Learning is one of the future practice of training and
information retrieval enabled by the Mobil Phone Technology
and the Internet. Obviously this kind of practices are more
suited to users who want to evolve and enhance their
competence in a domain than for traditional student-users.
The emerging e-business, e-commerce and digital transactions
on the Web sites become the main data sets resources for
business marketing strategies. By using Web Mining (such
like Data and Text Mining tools), companies can both analyse
and predict the behaviour of their customers or "surfer".
CAPS'3 aims to review, debate and to predict the power and
the potentiality of the online digital information.
There is more info at:
http://europia.org/CAPS
* Call for papers: Special issue of 'Campus-Wide
Information Systems' (ISSN 1065-0741) peer-reviewed journal
on the theme:
"Multimedia Systems for Lifelong Learning: Success and
Challenges"
Dr Kinshuk
Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Further information: Campus-Wide Information Systems, the
journal of technology in campus, is published five times a
year and also seeks articles on technology in the classroom,
the library and administrative uses. General information
about the journal can be obtained at:
http://www.mcb.co.uk/cwis.htm
* 24-25 June 2000: AID00 Machine Learning in Design
(MLinD) Workshop: Saturday/Sunday, 24/25 June 2000
The purpose of the workshop is to explore the issues and
requirements of machine learning in design, to critically
evaluate the current and required support from machine
learning techniques, and to identify the key areas and
challenges in the future. The objective is to evolve a
core understanding of the issues and main topics for future
research and to stimulate synergy in the Machine Learning in
Design research community. To achieve this future issues,
challenges and applications will be discussed and key areas
for future activities highlighted.
http://www.cad.strath.ac.uk/~alex/AID/AID00/MLinD00.html
* 7-9 June 2000: II International Conference On Design
History: "The Emergence Of Regional Histories" HAVANA.
If you are interested, please contact: I.D. Pedro
Garca-Espinosa Carrasco Executive Secretary Sixth Meeting
on Design Oficina Nacional de Diseo Industrial Calle 47
No.3446 esq.41, Rpto. Kohly, Playa. La Habana 11300; Cuba.
Phone. (537) 23 0797 y 23 0098. Fax: (537) 23 0798 E-mail:
[log in to unmask]
* 29-30 June 2000: International Conference on Recent
Advances in Soft Computing 2000 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR
PAPERS De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom
email [log in to unmask]
* 7-10 December 2000: ISEA2000, 10th International
Symposium on Electronic Art Paris, France
ISEA2000 is organized by ART3000 in collaboration with ISEA
- The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, with the
support and the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and
Communication (DDAT, DAP, DAI,CNC, DMDTS), and in
partnership with the Forum des images, CICV Pierre Schaeffer
Center, Canadian Cultural Center, ACROE and the General
Quebec Delegation.
http://www.art3000.com http://www.isea.qc.ca
* 4-7 September 2000: Call for Papers EUROMICRO WORKSHOP
on Multimedia and Telecommunication Maastricht, Netherlands.
It is relevant to system developers, researchers, computer
scientists, educators, theoreticians, and policy makers.
http://www.euromicro.org
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
* 18-21 April 2000: Call For Participation Third
International Symposium On Tools And Methods Of Competitive
Engineering Delft, The Netherlands.
This event will present a conscious survey on the
state-of-the-art of the methodologies and technologies of
product design and engineering, and will provide an
outstanding contribution to the development of the related
disciplines.
REGISTRATION FOR THE SYMPOSIUM: You can find information on
the symposium at
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/tmce2000/
* Invitation to The first seminar on Innovation in
Construction orgnanised by the Southern Construction
Creativity Club
The Network of Construction Creativity Clubs (NCCC) consists
of four joined-up regionally based Construction Creativity
Clubs (CCCs). The network aim is to foster a more innovative
construction sector, by developing methods by which data on
the largely undocumented research activity and innovative
practice of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), may
be shared by the wider industry. The Association of
Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) has
established the network with the support of the Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council, who have awarded the
project a research grant for 12 months. The Regional CCCs
will be holding a series of seminar events during 2000,
which will showcase construction industry innovations by
small and medium sized enterprises and larger companies. The
NCCC website (www.ce.strath.ac.uk/nccc) will document all
the innovations showcased from across the UK, to form a
durable and accessible resource for the construction
industry.
Innovations are identified and showcased during a series of
six seminars planned over the next 12 months. Our first
seminar organised by the Southern CCC is scheduled for 7th
April 2000 from 2 pm to 5.30 pm at South Bank University.
There shall be three short presentations followed by
workshops in three parallel sessions, leading to the
identification of three areas of innovation. Your
participation as a contributor and/or beneficiary of these
events will be very much valued. To this end, kindly
return/fax/email the attached booking form.
If you require further information contact Mahtab Farshchi
(Ms.) E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ce.strath.ac.uk/nccc
* 27-29 April 2000: AIWoRC'00: an international
conference on "Next Generation Enterprises - Virtual
Organizations and Mobile/ Pervasive Technologies" at
Buffalo, NY. You can register online directly at the
conference website at:
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/AIWORC
This conference is jointly sponsored by the University at
Buffalo and IEEE Computer Society, in cooperation with ACM,
INFORMS and several other professional organizations. The
conference is organized concurrently with an industrial
exposition and a large international constituency will be in
attendance. These two events will bring scholars,
technologists, and managers from around the world together
to share their thoughts and discuss the trends in mobile/
pervasive computing technologies and the emerging virtual
organizations of today and tomorrow.
* 11-13 September 2000: ALT-C 2000 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Integrating Learning Technology Practice, Policy and
Partnership 7th annual conference of the Association for
Learning Technology UMIST, Manchester, UK
Online submission form now on the conference web site:
http://www.umist.ac.uk/alt-c2000
Contact Janet Adnams for a printed copy of the call for
proposals: <[log in to unmask]>
ALT-C 2000, The seventh international conference of the
Association for Learning Technology will examine the key
roles of learning technology practice, policy and
partnership as colleges and universities respond to the
changing and challenging educational environment of the 21st
century.
* Taylor & Francis currently publishes over 500 academic
peer-reviewed journals across a variety of disciplines. In
response to the changing needs of the academic community, we
are using the Internet actively to disseminate information
about journals in advance of publication.
SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting, is a special
email service designed to deliver tables of contents, for
any Taylor & Francis, Carfax, Routledge, E&F N Spon or
Psychology Press journal, to anyone who has requested the
information. This service is completely free of charge.
All you need to do is register, and you will be sent
contents pages of the journal(s) of your choice from that
point onwards, in advance of the printed edition. You can
request contents pages either for any number of individual
titles, or for one or more of our sub-categories or a main
category, and you may unsubscribe at any time. For each of
your choices, you will receive the relevant bibliographic
information: journal title, volume/issue number and the
ISSN. You will also receive full contents details, names of
authors and the appropriate page numbers from the printed
version.
This will give you advance notice of what is being
published, making it easier for you to retrieve the exact
information you require from the hard copy once it arrives
in your library.
To register for this complimentary service, please visit:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara and click on the SARA button.
If you have any questions regarding this service, please
email: [log in to unmask]
* 7 April 2000: Sustainable Futures: Sustainable Design
and the Educational Agenda The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester,
UK Admission free, by registration only
http://www.design-council.org.uk/
* Announcement and Call for Papers
Journal of Product Innovation Management Special Issue:
Teaching New Product Development
Organizations struggle to implement New Product Development
(NPD) processes that help yield competitive advantage.
Research has helped deepen our understanding of how these
processes are optimally managed. Yet organizations still
find the need to implement their own training programs in
NPD processes.
The purpose of this special issue is to provide a forum for
articles related to effective innovation in curriculum
design and teaching methods that have impacted the way
students and managers understand and implement NPD. It's
objective is to advance the field by helping develop and
disseminate methods of teaching NPD that are rigorous,
effective, and relevant to commercial enterprise. We invite
articles from both academics and practitioners.
JPIM is in a unique position to provide a forum for papers
focused on the learning and teaching of NPD. It's readership
of both academics and practitioners provide the opportunity
for a rich exchange of information on how we might continue
to improve the dissemination and implementation of our
learning about the NPD process.
Correspondence to: Dr. Gina Colarelli O'Connor e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
* 4-5 September 2000: Conference on Construction
Applications of Virtual Reality: Current Initiatives and
Future Challenges. (CONVR 2000) Venue: VR Centre
(http://vr.tees.ac.uk) University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, UK
Virtual Reality is an exciting new technology that offers
considerable potential benefits for all stages of the
construction process, from initial planning and conceptual
design to facility management and operations. VR can be
applied as a vehicle for the whole life cycle design and
operation of projects. The mission of the conference is to
bring together researchers and practitioners in all areas of
the construction industry and promote efficient exchange of
ideas and develop mutual understanding of needs and
potential applications of VR modelling. There are
sustainable research efforts, in the UK, EU, USA and Japan,
that are pushing the frontier of knowledge in terms of
utilising and implementing VR in the construction process.
The objective of the conference is to report and disseminate
outputs/progress of innovative international research
activities in this field and formulate strategies for future
research direction. Leading researchers and practitioners
will be invited to submit working papers for the conference.
* 7 April 2000: 'Dyslexia in HE Art and Design - a
creative opportunity' at The Surrey Institute of Art &
Design, University College, Farnham, Surrey UK on April 7th
2000.
For more details contact Ann Brigden at
[log in to unmask] or see our world wide web site at
http://www. surrart.ac.uk
* To purchase a copy of the proceedings of the recent
conference INCITE (International Conference on Construction
Information Technology) 2000.
For those who are interested, please note that the following
proceedings are NOW available at a cost of HK$500/US$65
(plus P&P):
Li, H.; Shen, Q.P.; Scott, D.; and Love, P.E.D. (2000),
Implementing IT to obtain a competitive advantage in the
21st Century, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ISBN
962-367-272-1 p.895.
If you wish to get a copy for yourself or your library,
please feel free to contact our conference manager, Ms.
Susanna Pang or Ms. Megan Ho of International Conference
Consultants, at Tel: (852) 2559 9973, Fax: (852) 2547 9528
or email: [log in to unmask]
* The Visual Arts Data Service, (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk)
provides, preserves and promotes high quality digital
resources in the visual arts and the Technical Advisory
Service for Images (http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) advises and
supports the academic community on the digital creation,
storage and delivery of image-related information.
We are pleased to formally launch the web version of the
VADS/TASI Guide to Good Practice:
- Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards
and Good Practice*
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html
* SENIOR LECTURER/LECTURER IN DIGITAL DESIGN MEDIA
(tenurable) Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
University of Sydney Reference no. A06/000225
Applications are invited for the position of Lecturer/Senior
Lecturer in Digital Design Media (equivalent to
Assistant/Associate Professor, tenure track). The
Department of Architectural and Design Science is recognised
for its professional graduate programs and its international
leadership in research. The digital design media area has a
graduate program with over 40 students. The Faculty intends
to develop this program further and to work towards greater
integration in the design computing and audio programs. The
Department plans to expand its research in this area
developing synergy with the current extensive graduate
research in design computing and design science. The
appointee to this position will join a group of academics
with an international reputation for leadership in
architectural and design science.
Further details may be found at http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au.
or contact Professor John Gero, [log in to unmask]
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CYBER NEWS: snippets from the networks
* Celebrate the festival of colors virtually at:
http://www.colorsofindia.com
* An excellent portal to online newspapers worldwide is
available at:
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
* We are pleased to announce two new free services on the
Web:
(1) http://software.forAEC.com/ To our knowledge, this is
the most comprehensive directory of software for AEC
(architecture, engineering, construction). It includes about
3400 programs and on line calculators. Some are available
for free. We welcome entries of academic software as well,
so please consider submitting pointers your work. The
library was created in the frames of ETTN-CONNET project,
details at http://www.connet.org/
(2) http://itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/cumincad/ This is a
collaboration between TU Vienna and University of Ljubljana
and is a very comprehensive, searchable library of papers
related to computer aided architectural design and computing
in AEC from the 1960s to 1999. All have full abstracts, some
have URLs and author email addresses. It is a good chance
that your work is mentioned as well.
* Brain lags behind - the full news story is at:
http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0317006.htm
Live demos of the 4 experiments and some
background/references on the flash-lag phenomenon are at:
http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~eagleman/flashlag/
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DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Design Research Society was established in 1967, reflecting
a belief among academics and professionals from different design
communities that the essence of the activity called design was
common to many disciplines.
The Society has facilitated an international design research
network in 35 countries comprising members who maintain contact
through the publications and activities of the Society. Members
are drawn from diverse backgrounds, not only from the
traditional areas of design, ranging from fine art to
engineering, but also from subjects like psychology and computer
science.
The goals of the Society are to:
o promote communication across the boundaries of all design
disciplines
o provide a forum to exchange and communicate ideas,
experience and research findings
o promote the improvement of practical design performance in
all its aspects
o contribute to the development of a coherent body of
scholarship and knowledge in design
Membership is open to individuals and costs only UK pounds 20
per year. Members are entitled to the following:
o Newsletter of the Society
o Reduced rate subscription to the journal 'Design Studies',
published in association with the Society by Elsevier
o Occasional mailings to members
o Invitations and reduced admission charges to seminars and
conferences organised by the Society
For further details and an application form, contact the
membership secretary:
Professor Robert Jerrard, School of Design Research, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England,
Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK B4 7DX
tel: +44 (0)121 331 7807 fax: +44 (0)121 333 5569
email <[log in to unmask]
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ELECTRONIC SERVICES OF THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
* DRS_NEWS is the electronic newsletter of the Design
Research Society. It communicates news about research
throughout the world. It is mailed automatically at the
beginning of each month and is free. You may subscribe at
the following site:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/design-research/join.html
* DRS is a discussion list open for unmoderated discussion
on all matters related to design research. You may
subscribe at the following site:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/drs/join.html
* PHD-DESIGN is a discussion list open for unmoderated
discussion on all matters related to the PhD in design. You
may subscribe at the following site:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/phd-design/join.html
* Full information about the Design Research Society may be
found at:
http://www.drs.org.uk
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Information to the editor (email only):
Dr. David Durling, Director, Advanced Research Institute,
School of Art & Design, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 2XN, UK.
tel +44(0)1782 294565 fax +44(0)1782 294873
email: <[log in to unmask]
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