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The Digital World Research Centre
ANNOUNCES
THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE:
THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF MOBILE FUTURES
17th-18th July 2002
Digital World Research Centre
University of Surrey
Guildford
United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Location! Location! Location!
The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines
and sectors interested in the relationship between location and mobile
technologies.
Location is one of the driving topics within the mobile industry, but it can
mean very different things. It can imply services and applications, but it
can also have implications for the form factors of future location-sensitive
mobile technologies. There are also public and private locations with
appropriate codes of behaviour in each. Mobile devices may impact these
codes, and may ultimately introduce changes in cultural practices. On a
larger scale, mobile technologies may impact geography, and the way we
inhabit and perceive urban and non-urban spaces.
Little research has been reported that does more than make conjectures about
what location-based services and form factors might be, or which points
toward the changes in cultural practices that the alteration of public and
private space might be creating. It is in this context that this conference
will bring together leading academic and commercial researchers to report on
the latest empirical and conceptual research in the general area of
location. The conference will be of interest to researchers in sociology,
anthropology, psychology, HCI-CHI, CSCW, design, urban studies, media
studies, and geography. This conference may also be of interest to those who
work in organisations that provide location-based services, and those that
provide the hardware and networks for such services.
A selection of the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
Themes of interest include:
- Working and Domestic Life
- Space, Time and Mobility
- Public and Private Spaces & Behaviour
- Usability
- Design and Form Factors of Mobile Technologies
- Modalities of Communication and Interaction
- Consumption, Media and Culture
- Cross-Cultural Studies
- Comparative Technologies
- Organisation and Industry
Call for Papers
Deadline for submission of papers is 25th April. Notification of acceptance
will be sent in 10th May. Final versions of paper will be due 14th June. A
selection of papers will be submitted for publication as a book in
September.
A restricted-access website and a Bulletin Board will be established on the
DWRC website for announcements, timetable updates, and discussion.
Important Dates
Papers
25th April 2002 Deadline for Conference Paper Submission
10th May 2002 Notification of Acceptance
14th June Final versions
7th July Proceedings posted on DWRC Website
Registration
31st May Registration deadline
Contacts
Prof. Richard Harper and/or Dr Amparo Lasen
Digital World Research Centre
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
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Website: www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/wireless3.html
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