(Apologies for potential multiple postings)
Dear colleagues,
a large portion of design work is collaborative, and in practice
people involved in design efforts often try or are forced to utilise
information technology to support their collaboration and
communication. Thus computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) as a
research area may be of interest to at least some people involved in
design research.
One of the major forums of CSCW, the 8th European Conference on
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/ ) was
successfully held in Helsinki in last September, and we have now a
limited number of leftover proceedings (396 pages) available.
Proceedings contain 20 state-of -art papers on CSCW, and although
only one paper (Iacucci & Wagner: Supporting collaboration
ubiquitously: An augmented learning environment for architecture
students) is directly addressing the field of design, most of the
other papers also explore issues very relevant to IT-mediated
cooperative design work.
The table of contents, cover images and the ordering information is
available at http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/ecscw_03_proceedings.htm
Proceedings can be ordered from Oulu University Press using any of
the addresses below. The price of the proceedings is 71 euros +
actual packaging and postage costs. As long as (even more limited)
supplies last, we will add also supplement proceeedings (72 pages)
and the CD-ROM containing the video program to the package with no
extra cost. Proceedings are published by Kluwer and their normal
price is 125 euros, thus this is a good opportunity to update the
library of your own or that of your institution.
Unfortunately the OUP financial transaction system is somewhat
limited -- no credit card payments accepted. To make things as easy
as possible, we have decided that the payment of proceedings will be
by bank transfer afterwards according to the bill included in the
shipment. We believe that the community is so trustworthy that this
can be done... Thus please just send us an order with the number of
books needed, recipient's name and delivery address, and we will send
the books and bill.
Institutions within EU including their VAT number in the order will
get the VAT of 8% deduced from their bill. No VAT for anybody outside
EU either.
Please place your orders:
By letter:
Oulu University Press
Sales/Tuula Hurskainen
P.O. Box 8200
90014 University of Oulu
Finland
By fax:
Oulu University Press
Sales/Tuula Hurskainen
+358-8-553 3047
By e-mail:
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best regards,
--Kari Kuutti, ECSCW'03 co-chair
Professor
University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Sciences
Linnanmaa, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU, Finland
tel. +358-8-553 1904, fax +358-8-553 1890
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