Dear all,

Here is a conference that might be of interest to you.

Dimitris

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Dr. Dimitrios Charitos
Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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eCAADe06 Call for papers

Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe 2006

Conference Theme: Communicating Space(s)
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University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
September 6-9, 2006


During the last four decades, designers have utilized information and
communication technologies for creating environmental representations in
order
to communicate spatial concepts or designs and for enhancing spaces, as
contexts for mediated communication. This hypothesis implies two diverse but
partially intersecting thematic axes along which spatial design and
communication relate:

Time-based media, information systems and tele-communication networks have
been used for creating and transmitting environmental representations -
interactive or not, static or dynamic, locally or remotely experienced.
Representations range from small objects , to buildings and up to landscape
models and support various phases of the design process: recording and
analyzing existing environments, creating visualizations of the design
process
and/or the designed space and finally communicating completed designs.

Information and communication technologies have been used for enhancing
physical environments in order to create spatial contexts for mediated
communication. The contemporary urban environment usually incorporates
various
kinds of representations of reality, communicated to citizens via various
media and appropriate display systems. New types of mobile communication
technologies, multi-user virtual environments, geographical positioning
systems, graphical interfaces on mobile devices, as well as the convergence
of
these systems, lead to new forms of mediated communication, which may
significantly restructure the way we socialize, alter the experience of
urban
space and the relationship of the physical world with the technologically
mediated environment.
These thematic axes indicate the main topics of this conference:

Communicating spatial representations:

Creating static/dynamic, interactive/passive, linear/non-linear,
iconic/abstract types of spatial representations
Making use of several types of interfaces for communicating spatial
representations
Information (visualization) spaces
These spaces may vary in scale but emphasis will be given to urban scale
representations.

Communicating within mediated spaces (environments enhanced by information
and
communication technologies):
Traditional forms of analogue electronic media integrated within
environments
of any scale
Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs)
Hybrid spaces (augmented reality, mixed reality systems)

Additional topics include but are not limited to:

Collaborative design,
Research, Education and Practice
Digital methods of construction
Precedence and Prototypes
Generative design
Prediction and Evaluation
Information Visualization
Shape Studies
Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Virtual Architecture
User Participation in Design
Web-Based Design

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Deadline for abstract submissions is 1st February 2006
For more information, please visit http://www.arch.uth.gr/ecaade06/