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PhDIT'99
Second International Workshop on Philosophy of
Design and Information Technology
Ethics in Information Technology Design
16-17 December, 1999
Saint-Ferréol, Toulouse - France
http://europia.org/PhDIT.htm
CALL FORPARTICIPATION
"Smart" houses, "smart" software agents, "smart" cars, "smart" clothes:
from the buildings we inhabit, to the software we use, an increasingly wide
range of objects are being endowed with "intelligent" capabilities.
This workshop will bring together practitioners from the fields of IT,
design, and ethics, in order to identify and articulate the ethical issues
associated with the design, development, and deployment of "smart" consumer
products. The central question this workshop will address is whether
"smart" or "intelligent" objects raise new, or highlight existing, ethical
issues in terms of their design, development, and deployment.
- How do such technologies reshape notions of individual
responsibility and social trust?
- Who will be liable for the actions of "autonomous" software agents?
- Do such artefacts require the use of sensitive information to
function appropriately?
- How might this knowledge be applied in the manifestation of
"smart" or "intelligent" objects/systems/products?
- What issues do wearable computers raise, given the sensitive
information that such devices might glean from privileged position on the
body of the user?
....
Through exploration of these and other questions, participants will attempt
to engage both the promise and the perils of ubiqutous "intelligent"
machines.
TOPICS
Topics pertinent to the workshop include, but are not restricted to the
following:
Design Ethics;
Knowledge/Information acquisition;
Knowledge/Information application;
Intelligent Systems/Products;
Managerial control of Information Technology;
Privacy;
Relationship between the designer and the user;
GENERAL INFORMATION
The workshop will be held in Saint-Ferréol, small town close to Toulouse,
in the southwest of France. It will be preceeded by 01Design'99 : New
Information System Deign, 6th Francophone Workshop on Design Sciences and
Technology.
SUBMISSION
Participants are invited to submit :
Full papers (maximum 15 single-spaced -10 points font- A4 pages, including
images, tables and references).
Or
Extended abstract (4 single-spaced -10 points font- A4 pages minimum,
including images, tables and references).
Papers or extended abstracts must include in the first page:
Title,
Author's name(s),
Affiliation,
Complete address,
Phone and fax numbers,
e-mail address,
Abstract of 300 words (only for full papers)
Keywords.
Videos, multimedia and online presentations are welcome.
Papers and extended abstracts will be selected by anonymous referees.
Electronic submission in either HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF, or plain text
format is strongly encouraged. Images should be sent as attachments in GIF
or JPEG formats).
Submissions should be sent to:
PhDIT'99 Chairman
with a carbon copy (CC) to:
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If electronic submission is not possible, please send three hardcopies of
the paper and a copy on a floppy disk via surface mail to:
PhDIT'99 Chairman
Europia Productions
15, avenue de Ségur
75007 Paris - France
Pre-prints, Book
Pre-prints including the selected papers and extended
abstracts will be distributed o all the participants.
A Book will be published after the workshop by Europia
Productions pub.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
First Call For Papers: May 1999
Submission of Papers or Extended Abstracts: September 15, 1999
Notification: October 15, 1999
Submission of final papers: November 15, 1999
Pre-prints: December 16, 1999
Book: June 2000
WORKSHOP FEES
The workshop fees include : registration, proceedings, 2 days hotel,
2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, coffee
breaks and possibility transportation from and to Toulouse (fixed
times for group)
Academic Participant: 450 Euros
Professional/Industrial Participant: 600 Euros
Accompanying person: 250 Euros
PhDIT'99 International Advisory Board
Raymond Bélanger, Canada
Jean-Francois Blanchette, USA
Pierre Beust, France
Alan Bridges, U.K
Louis Chamming's, France
Richard Coyne, U.K
John Lee, U.K
Tufan Orel, France
Michael Smyth, U.K
Vladimir Srdanovic, Yougoslavia
Andree Woodcock, U.K
Khaldoun Zreik, France (Workshop Chairman)
PhDIT'99 International Program Committee
Artur Serra, Spain
Reza Beheshti, N.L
Mario Borillo, France
Cherif Branki, U.K
Malcolm Crowe, U.K
Yves Dupont, France
Didier Le GAll, France
Herve LeCrosnier, France
Jean-Pierre Goulette, France
Leglise Michel, France
Sid Newton, Australia
Dominique Scapin, France
Bob Scott, U.K
Peter Szalapaj, U.K.
Christopher Tweed, U.K.
Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, U.S.A.
Jean Viver, France
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