Dear list members,
Please find below the info for a conference we will host together
with the COST 269 'User Aspects of ICTs' network in Helsinki in Sept
2003:
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IRRELEVANT
- The user and the future of information and communication technologies
We have designed the conference to solicit contributions from any
discpline, but I would personally specifically welcome designers to
participate. Also, many of the recent topics on the list seem to fit
well with the conference themes.
How to design for a meaningful future, from a people centric point of
view, with the new technology?
I will post a new notice once our pre-conference activities are
launched, but meanwhile I wanted to point out the dates for your
planning: the conference week is 3-5 Sept, and the deadline for
abstracts is 10th of April. There will also be another related
activity on the 1-2 of Sept, of which I will have more info later.
best regards, Kari-Hans Kommonen, ARKI/Media Lab/UIAH
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3-5 September 2003: Call For Papers for THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE
IRRELEVANT - The user and the future of information and communication
technologies. University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland.
(New deadline for abstracts: 10th April 2003)
Technology is one of the key elements contributing to rapid global
change. Whether we are interested in developing technology, or
studying its relationship with people and everyday life, or seeking
to benefit from the potential it creates, or worried over its
consequences, we can hardly overlook its role in the shaping of our
future. But what can we say of the direction and meaning of this
development?
Through four themes,
* the extended human,
* users as innovators,
* dealing with diversity,
* the reconfiguration of society,
the organisers of this conference want to focus the attention of an
interdisciplinary community on some of the key arenas where the
future relationship of people and new digital technology and its
applications are being negotiated.
In this conference, the organisers - the COST Action 269 - invite
technology and product developers, designers, social scientists,
policy makers, community representatives and others who are
interested in the conference topics, to join an attempt to develop
the discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground. We
ask participants to
1. strive to present their topic from a human centric point of view
as opposed to a technology, product or business centric one, and to
2. present in a language that attempts to transcend disciplinary
boundaries, a language that non-experts can also understand, and to
3. not only report on their work, but also to engage in the
conference debate which aims to develop ways to understand the
interests of people and society, to evaluate developments against
such evolving understanding, and to chart interesting and desirable
future directions.
The conference is organised by the COST 269 network 'User Aspects of
ICTs', and the Media Lab of University of Art and Design Helsinki
UIAH.
New deadline for abstracts: 10th April 2003
Conference information: http://www.cost269.org/conference.html
Pre-conference activities at: http://goodbad.uiah.fi
Full call for papers: http://goodbad.uiah.fi/callforpapers
Poster: http://goodbad.uiah.fi/poster
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