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Revised call for contributions

BUILDING TOMORROW TODAY:
Community, design and technology

i3 Annual Conference 2000
13 - 15 September 2000
Jönköping, Sweden

This year's i3 Annual Conference, Building Tomorrow Today, will integrate key 
concepts and perspectives from innovative computing technologies, the design of 
interactive and collaborative systems, and research into systems which
support communication and collaboration among communities.

The i3 approach to Building Tomorrow Today gives special importance to symbioses 
of new technologies and innovative design, to social and participatory 
approaches to systems engineering, and to experiential and action research. 

The conference will be structured around the following topics:

• integrating physical and virtual information spaces;
• tangible artefacts and embedded interactive objects; 
• ambient interactive computing (e.g. in "intelligent homes" or in environments 
for leisure and play); 
• connected communities (e.g. in neighbourhoods, around school and home, within 
professional communities);
• innovative technologies supporting early learning.  

The conference programme will feature thematic sessions (with submitted and 
invited contributions), interactive performances, workshops, invited plenary 
talks and an exhibition, garnished with social events. 

Contributions are now invited for the following: 

a) Papers (thematic sessions)
Thematic sessions will consist of invited and submitted papers, and will be 
organised around the above list of conference topics. Sessions will be held in 
parallel, and will include time for open discussion. These discussions at the 
thematic sessions will be subsequently reported at special plenary panels. 

Paper submissions should focus on at least one of the conference topics (please 
specify which one(s)). They should contain a concise description and/or 
discussion of the main points of the presentation.

Length of paper submissions: up to 2400 words (4 pages)

Papers will be anonymously reviewed.

Timetable for paper submissions 
• Deadline for submissions: April 24, 2000. 
• Notification of acceptance (with instructions for revision) June 2, 2000
• Final submissions due: June 23, 2000

b) Interactive performances
Interactive performances are special sessions (of up to one hour) in which a new 
product or concept is presented by means of live performance involving 
multimedia technology (sound, animation, video...) and interaction with the 
audience.

Proposals for interactive performances should state authors/presenters, content, 
theme, duration and presentation style of the interactive performance, as well 
as the space and equipment support required. Additional material (sound,  
animation, video) is also welcome, and should either be provided as an online 
readable web presentation under a specified URL, or be sent by mail or courier 
(in the case of video or sound tapes) to the i3 secretariat, address below.

Length of interactive performance proposals: up to 600 words (1 page)

c) Workshops
Workshops at the conference should be practically-oriented with adequate  
opportunity for discussion. They should have a clear focus (for example the 
needs of specific target groups such as children, teachers, the elderly) and be 
characterised by the interaction between designers of  a system (prototype) and 
its (potential) users

Workshop proposals should specify proposer(s), duration, objectives, content, 
methodology, and intended target groups. 

Length of workshop proposals: up to 1200 words (2 pages)

d) Exhibitions/demonstrations
There will be an exhibition space at the conference centre for demonstrations 
(prototypes and systems related to the conference topics) and exhibits. 

Description of the two exhibition areas. (hyperlink to: 
http://www.hj.se/~dis/konferens/)

Demonstration and/or exhibition proposals should specify proposers, the 
prototype/system to be exhibited, how it will be demonstrated, and space and 
equipment  requirements. 

Length of proposals for exhibitions/demos: up to 1200 words (2 pages)

Proposals for Interactive Performances, workshops, demonstations and exhibitions
The review process for other categories will be based on direct interaction 
between the proposers and members of the Programme Committee. A member of the 
Programme Committee will contact proposers to discuss the relevance of the 
submitted material for the conference, as well as practical constraints and 
spatial requirements.

Timetable for Interactive Performances/Workshops/Demonstrations/Exhibitions
• Deadline for submissions: April 24, 2000.
• Contact between proposers and the Programme Committee: May 2000. 
• Notification of acceptance with final instructions: June 2, 2000
• Final submissions dueJune 23, 2000

Important general information
All submissions should be sent as email attachments to [log in to unmask]
They should give the name(s), affiliation(s), email(s) and website address of 
all author(s) or proposer(s). Please also specify any special requirements 
concerning room and equipment, as well as conditions for, or restrictions on, 
participation (where relevant).

Accepted papers and descriptions of interactive performances, workshops,  
exhibitions/demos and workshops will be published in the conference proceedings.

Formatting
- Text: Word or rtf format.
- Images: tif or jpg format. All images should be scanned in at high resolution 
(at least 300 dpi, and be submitted as separate files. Please mark in the text 
where they should be inserted, with caption where appropriate.

Conference organisers
Organising Committee 
Lars Heide, Conference Manager, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense 
(DK) 
Bo Gustaffson, Local Organiser, Jönköping University (SE) 

Programme Committee
Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano - Bicocca (Italy), chair
Ulrich Hoppe, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität, Duisburg (D), co-chair
Mimo Caenepeel, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Alan Munro, Napier University (UK)
Richard Millwood, Ultralab, Anglia Polytechnic University (UK)
Marilyn Panayi, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
Thomas Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, 
Saarbrücken (D)
Duncan Smith, Crystal Presentations, Birmingham (UK)


To join the conference mailing list for further information, please send email 
to

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with the sole text body: "subscribe" (subject is irrelevant)

 or contact: 

Building Tomorrow Today
i3net secretariat
The Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
University of Southern Denmark, Forskerparken 10
DK-5230 Odense M, DENMARK
Tel : (+45) 6550 3551, Fax: (+45) 6315 7224
Email: [log in to unmask]


i3net - The European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces was created 
in 1996 in order to take a human-centred approach to the exploration of new, 
visionary interactive systems for people in their everyday activities.  For more 
information see www/i3net/org

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