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Two travel grants (500 GBP each) will be awarded to junior researchers 
interested in visual methods to attend the workshop 'Technologies for 
Enhancing Visual Methods and Data', in conjunction with the 3rd 
international e-Social Science conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan, the US 
(7-9 October 2007).

Prospect applicants should send their CVs and an intent to participate (no 
more than 1 page) before 1 September 2007 to Yuwei Lin via email at 
yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk. Decision will be made on 3 September 2007.

A call for participation in this workshop can be found below. For more 
information about the workshop and the e-Social Science conference please 
see the following websites:
http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm
http://ess.si.umich.edu/workshops.htm

For any enquiries please contact Yuwei Lin at yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk.

=== Call for Participation ===
Workshop: Technologies for Enhancing Visual Methods and Data
7 October 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, the US
(in conjunction with the 3rd international e-Social Science conference)

http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm
http://ess.si.umich.edu/workshops.htm

Visual methods involved with images, paintings, photos, or videos are 
becoming popular in social scientific research. For instance, the use of 
video and other visual methods (such as photography) have contributed to 
undertaking qualitative research. Technological advancements in hardware 
and software have enabled a range of visual data to be created and that 
these visual images could be employed in research to provide insight into 
understandings of behaviours, attitudes, emotions and beliefs, and to 
result in methodological advancements or innovations.

The ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science has involved in several 
projects in response to the need for visual methods. Some of them are about 
developing tools for data collection and analysis. The others are about 
exploring new ways of doing research in an image-based visual environment.

This half-day workshop, partly sponsored by the British Academy and Taiwan 
National Science Council international collaboration fund, will provide an 
opportunity for people engaged in visual methods to share their work and 
experiences. Both developers and users from different disciplines are 
cordially invited.

The discussion at this workshop will

* advance our understanding of user requirements which are emerging and 
difficult to meet;

* raise awareness of visual methods for social scientific research;

* encourage the adoption of new technologies for collecting and analysing 
visual data;

* improve our understandings of social and ethical and usability issues 
involved in the development process of new technologies for enhancing 
visual methods and visual data;

* implicate in methodological innovation in social sciences and other 
research areas.

We also anticipate to identify key collaboration areas for formulating 
longer term international research projects.

This workshop is organised by Michael Daw, Terry Hewitt, and Yuwei Lin at 
the University of Manchester; Pau-Choo Chung at the National Cheng-Kung 
University in Taiwan.

For registration or any enquiries, please contact Yuwei Lin at 
yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk.

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