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Preliminary Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers
Ethnographic Studies in Real and Virtual Environments: Inhabited
Information
Spaces and Connected Communities
Organisers: eSCAPE and LiMe
Projects funded by the EU Esprit i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces)
programme
Venue: Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton
Campus, Edinburgh
Date: 25th -26th January 1999
Workshop fee: 150- 180 approx (to be confirmed) (including 2 nights
accommodation and copy of proceedings)
Information technologies provide novel ways to support community life in
real and virtual spaces. From supporting the exchange of information
relevant to a local community, to allowing a spatially distributed community
to 'meet' in a virtual space, to providing large scale electronic
environments for many different communities, 'inhabited information
spaces'
and 'connected communities' are possibilities with potentially far reaching
implications for the organisation of work and cultural exchange in the
future. The aims of this workshop are to explore the representation and use
of information in people's activities in real and virtual environments from
an ethnographic perspective, and, to discuss and disseminate research and
research findings in this field.
Some of the questions which will be addressed at the workshop are:
How is information used within communities?
How do people share information within the same environment?
What kind of information is important for a community?
What are inhabited information spaces?
What kind of information is required in such spaces?
How is information represented?
How are innovative tools and techniques used to explore the above
issues?
Workshop activities include a series of paper presentations (30 minutes
duration including questions), in-depth discussion on relevant topics and a
final plenary session. The number of participants will be limited to around
30 in order to encourage and facilitate discussion.
Call for papers
Extended abstracts are invited for this workshop (1200 words). Abstracts
will be subject to a peer review process. Author*s names and affiliations
should be included on a separate header page not in the body of the
abstract. For multiple authors please provide a primary contact name,
address and e-mail address. E-mail abstract as PC Word or Ascii file and
send 3 paper copies to:
Katie Bates
Project Co-ordinator, Living Memory
Queen Margaret College
Clerwood Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 8TS
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Tel: 0131-317-3510
Timetable: Extended abstracts to be received no later than 14th October
1998
Decision following review process will be made by 14th November 1998
Full papers must be received by 14th December 1998
Registration (including registration by presenters) due by 14th December
1998
Final call for papers and registration details will be issued shortly.
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