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Subject: CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006 Submission Deadline: 23 January 2006
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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
February 26-28, 2006 - San Sebastian, Spain
(http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)
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* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Professor Hermann Maurer, Graz U. of Technology, Austria Cliff Figallo, SociAlchemy, USA
* Conference background and goals
The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.
Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations, mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities 2006 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based communities. These communities do not limit participants to particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational. Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to promote your community so that new members can find it?
How to protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition, sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based communities, although critical theories on societies and post-modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent technologies will be discussed.
Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2006 Conference aims at bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism, critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all processes that need the new communication infrastructures.
The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and effect.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The better papers will be candidate for the "International Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4 issues per year]
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Subject indications (but not limited to) The history, architecture and future of virtual communities 1. From mobility to connectivity 2. Identity and augmented ideologies 3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers 4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies 5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games 6. Towards alternative ways of presence
Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education 3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven stories 4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars 5. Hosting web-based communities 6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects
Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning communities 1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship 2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism 3. Community directories 4. Mechanic world, organic computer 5. Agents and the vectorized self 6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation 7. Communizing as a marketing approach
Expanding markets through virtual communities 1. The WWW as digital market place 2. The enterprise as a learning community 3. The learning as a road map for business 4. Universities as online communities 5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit sectors
Virtual communities for people with special needs 1. Access to public spaces 2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities 3. Virtual communities in health care
* Important Dates (2nd Call extension):
- Submission Deadline: 23 January 2005
- Notification to Authors: 3 February 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 10 February
2006
- Late Registration: After 10 February 2006
- Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006
* Conference Location The conference will be held in San Sebastian, Spain.
* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006
* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Program Chair
Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain
Committee Members:
Adam Joinson, The Open University, United Kingdom Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy Alexandra Kopitar, EEE, Austria Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University United Kingdom Anne Jelfs, The Open University, United Kingdom Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Bryn Holmes, Concordia University, Canada Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Chris Pegler, The Open University, United Kingdom Christine Smith, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Christopher Irgens, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Daniel Burgos, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands Demetrios G. Sampson, ITI-CERTH, Greece Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria Emanuel Gruengard, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Israel Erik Andriessen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Frieda Saeys, Gent University, Belgium Gail Miles, Lenoir-Rhyne College, USA Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Griff Richards, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands Hans-Inge Persson, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong John Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa Kathleen Kelm, Edgewood College, USA Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand Kirsti Lindh, Univeristy of Tampere, Finland Konrad Morgan, University of Bergen, Norway Lawrie Hunter, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Leandro Madrazo, Escola Tècnica i Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle, Spain Lee Chien-Ching, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Linda Price, The Open University, United Kingdom Liviu Cristian Miclea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Ljuan Marko Gashi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan Maria Zenios, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Michael Henderson, James Cook University, Australia Nopphol Pauswasdi, Mahidol University, Thailand Paul Leng, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom R. Karpaga Kumaravel, Bharathidasan University, India Radojica Petrovic, Technical Faculty of Cacak, Serbia and Montenegro Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, United Kingdom Slavi Stoyanov, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of Messolongi, Greece Tarja Tikkanen, RF Rogaland Research, Norway Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece Tsuneo Yamada, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Violeta Damjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany Vyaceslav Shitikov, Riga Technical University, Latvia Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Yuko Terao, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan
for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp
* See also the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-WBC) Workshop 2006 (http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/ETWBC2006/)
* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/) - 25-28 February 2006
* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.
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