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call for papers

deadline for abstracts; May 15th.

The research programme Man Medium Machine [M3] and the School of 
Communication, Technology & Design at Södertörn university college, 
invites to a three-day conference on the theme “The Virtual: 
interaction”.

The conference will be held at Almåsa conference centre, in the 
archipelago of Haninge, south of Stockholm.

The theme of this year's "The Virtual" conference is interaction. 
'Interaction' is naturally at the core of many researchers strive to 
understand people's use and engagement with information technology. 
'Interaction' also attempts to capture the interdisciplinary focus that 
the conference has developed in previous years. The conference seeks to 
create a meeting space for research that spans from interaction design 
and HCI to social and humanistic perspectives on technology. 
'Interaction' is also about the relation between people and how they 
are affected by digital media, their living situation, and so on.

We hope to attract researchers that like to involve in a discussion of 
how these two fields of research may enrich each other. The particular 
themes of this years conference include, but are not limited to;
* technology for the experience of nature
* the body and/in information technology
* art, body and design
* new forms for media production
* amateurs, end-users, and hobbyists as digital media producers
* games that transcend physical and virtual boundaries
* novel methodologies and approaches in interaction design practice
* consumer and user participation in media and storytelling
* sketching of interactive behaviour
* expressions of ideology in design and digital technologies
* gender and intersectionalist studies of interaction practices
* the construction of identity, gender, normality, etc., in virtual 
communities
* the interaction between online and offline subjectivites, actions, 
identities, etc.


keynotes [will be updated with 1-2 more]
Jon Hindmarsh
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/mgmt/staff/jonhindmarsh.html
Senior Lecturer in Work Practice and Technology
King's College, London

dates to remember
May 15th - deadline for abstracts.
June 15th - notification on acceptance for paper presentation.
August 15th - last day for paper submission and payment of conference 
fee.

Please note that the number of participants for the conference are 
limited (c.a 50 persons). There is also a limited number of single-bed 
rooms. Therefore, first come, first served!

conference fee
Last date for registration: July 15th, 2007

Please fill in the registration form at the conference website: 
http://m3.sh.se/virtual2007. Last day for payment: August 15th, 2007

Conference fee (inkl. VAT) 5000 SEK.
For postgraduate students and students 3.000 SEK (inkl. VAT).

The conference fee includes:
· admission to all Keynote Speakers and conference Paper Sessions
· Publication of the Virtual 2007-conference papers will be sent to all 
conference participants afterwards.
· Participants also receive an Abstract Booklet.
· accommodation at Almåsa, meals, coffee and tea according to the 
programme


For further information, please look at the conference website 
m3.sh.se/virtual2006.

M3: Man Medium Machine
http://m3.sh.se
Research programme; Department of Communication, Technology & Design
Södertörn University College

School of Communication, Technology & Design
http://mt.sh.se
Södertörn University College

Almåsa
http://www.almasa.se
Conference centre