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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