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Deadline Extended CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems. IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials. All submissions are due 15 March 2010. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 March 2010 Notification to authors 1 April 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 15 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 March 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html

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Sunday/Monday Mobile Funnies
by gerrymck 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

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Literature on Dating/Matrimonial Sites?
by Nadav and Tamar Gablinger 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

I usually just lurk in the back, but I would like to ask the list, just in case I have missed something important in beginning a literature review on the subejct - are there any landmark artilces/books on online dating and especially on "religiously oriented" ones (e.g. JDate, Muslima)? Thanks in advance, Tamar Gablinger

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Re: [Air-L] Privacy Buzz
by Justin Reedy 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Great question, Aziz -- I'm surprised it seemed to take this long for Google Buzz to come up on this list. I, for one, am surprised at how poorly Google seems to have handled this entire program. The automatic opt-in, the automatic harvesting of email contacts, the connections to others' accounts -- some of Buzz's features could be quite helpful in a world free of private correspondence and compartmentalized connections. But we don't live in a world like that, and Google seems to have failed to grasp that entirely in making Buzz. It is much like early iterations of Gmail -- I saw a blog post pointing out how Gmail didn't have a delete button when it first launched, because Google wondered why one would ever need to delete an email with as much storage space as they were offering. This represented a naive sort of ignorance on Google's part -- of course there are reasons beyond space constraints for deleting emails! Emails to an attorney, conversations with an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, planning a surprise for a partner or roommate who might stumble across your iGoogle page or Gmail inbox. (To say nothing of discussions of illicit or controversial behavior...) See also: Google Maps Street View. As for Buzz, a friend made a pretty good observation: "I don't have a problem with it, necessarily, but I sure would if I were having an affair." It is troubling to me that Google will roll something like this out in Beta before considering its implications for privacy and safety. They have backpedaled a bit, I believe (you can now opt-out more easily, from what I hear), but I wonder whether this comes too late for some people. Astute observers may have been able to gather data on people before everyone knew what was going on and changes were implemented by Google. Given Google's prominence and power, I wish they were a bit more cautious in implementing new programs that affect the online world for millions (billions?) of people. Maybe Google could have some kind of outside focus group or ombudsman program to help break through their naivete and consider users' concerns *before* a product is rolled out. -Justin ------------------------------------------------------- Justin Reedy Doctoral student Department of Communication University of Washington ------------------------------------------------------- ***** From: Aziz Douai <azizdouai(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:33:32 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Privacy Buzz Hi everyone, I guess I am one of the lurkers on the listserv, but here goes my first contribution: Buzz. If you have used the new google social network service, how do you feel about the seeming violation of privacy? A few days ago, I decline my Gmail's insistence on adding trying the new feature/service. Now, the New York Times has a great article (Critics Say Google Invades Privacy with New Service: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13google.html) on how users' rights to privacy appear to have been violated. The article raises the interesting question of how totalitarian regimes may use the service to suppress political dissent. Google's rhetoric and carefully constructed image following its row with China is put to test. Anyway, I am curious as to how AIR members have found the feature with regard to both privacy and security. Cheers, Aziz ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aziz Douai, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication Program Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies University of Ontario Institute of Technology 2000 Simcoe Street North Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 E-mail: aziz.douai(a)uoit.ca/ <http://aziz%2Edouai@uoit.ca/> azizdouai(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." James Madison, 1822 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: ICITST-2010!
by g.akmayeva＠icitst.org 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems * Information Content Security * Software Architecture * System design and verification * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: May 31, 2010 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: April 01, 2010 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2010 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2010 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2010 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2010 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: July 31, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: July 31, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: January 01 to July 31, 2010 Late Registration Deadline: July 31 to November 08, 2010 Conference Dates: November 08-11, 2010 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org For more details, please visit www.icitst.org

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Call for Papers: ICITST-2010!
by g.akmayeva＠icitst.org 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems * Information Content Security * Software Architecture * System design and verification * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: May 31, 2010 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: April 01, 2010 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2010 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2010 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2010 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2010 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: July 31, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: July 31, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: January 01 to July 31, 2010 Late Registration Deadline: July 31 to November 08, 2010 Conference Dates: November 08-11, 2010 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org For more details, please visit www.icitst.org

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barbie the computer engineer
by Seda Guerses 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

acm just proudly presented: http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/uploads/ComputerEngineerBarbie.pdf Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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Net neutrality book and talk: Brussels 18 March
by chris marsden 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

May be of interest? BOOK TITLE: Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution (2010, Bloomsbury Academic) Christopher T. Marsden, also Creative Commons download from http://bit.ly/buQqi7 - anyone can download, remix and repost the file (CC 3.0 licence - Non-commercial Remix). Chris Marsden argues for a 'Middle Way' on net neutrality, a problem of consumer and media policy without easy answers that cannot be left to self-regulated market actors. 'Net neutrality is the subject of regulatory decisions in Canada and the United States, and legislation in the European Union, but the details of enforcement remain vague if not obscure. Based on his new book on the subject and those recent decisions, Chris Marsden argues that we should not entrench ‘Lex Monopolium’ at the expense of an open Internet, nor is the choice that drastic. Innovation and investment can be encouraged by relatively light touch co-regulatory transparency principles, backed up by a regulator with sufficient comprehension and research into the issues and sharp teeth to make a real political commitment to intervene where economic or social interests dictate. Network neutrality may be a slogan that covers many concerns about the future of the Internet, but it certainly provides an excellent platform to create this wider and better informed discussion.' ‘Fascinating to read, thoroughly researched and testing the paths to the future of the Internet.’ Dr Herbert Ungerer, Former Deputy Director General, DG COMP European Commission During lunchtime on Thursday 18 March, Authors@Google are pleased to have Chris Marsden over to present his book on Net Neutrality. If you want to attend, please register here<https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHVUSEt…>. When: Thursday March 18, 12:30 - 13:30 hours CET (Sandwich lunch provided). Where: Google Brussels, Chaussée D'Etterbeek 180 - Steenweg op Etterbeek 180, 2nd floor, 1040 Brussels THE AUTHOR: Christopher T. Marsden is Senior Lecturer in Law, having joined the University of Essex in 2007. He was senior analyst at RAND Europe (2005-07), research manager at Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (2004-05), Regulatory Director at MCI WorldCom UK Ltd (2001-02), and General Counsel of Shortmedia (2000-01). He has LLB 1989 and LLM 1994 from the London of School of Economics. He is Media Board Member, Society for Computers and Law; Editorial Board Member of the journal 'info' since 2003; and was Founding co-editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy. He has been a Research Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, an Industrial Policy Fellow at Cambridge University's Computer Lab, Mr Chris Marsden Senior Lecturer in Communications Law University of Essex cmars(a)essex.ac.uk Recent papers at SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=220925

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think 3 blogging competition
by jeremy hunsinger 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/ The competition will bring together journalists, journalism students, academics and experts from 27 EU Member States, neighbourhood countries and beyond, to write about global cooperation in international development. TH!NK3: Developing World will run from 24 March, 2010 to 31 August, 2010. Selected participants will come together to launch round three of TH!NK ABOUT IT in Brussels, Belgium from 22-23 March, 2010. Please note that all selected TH!NK3 participants must attend the Brussels launch event, which will include speakers, workshops and opportunities for all participants to meet each other and network as a team! TH!NK3: Developing World will also offer the project's top bloggers the chance to cover the issues from the field via reporting expeditions to Asia, Africa and New York City. In order to qualify for these awards, participants must blog at least 20 times throughout the competition. The EJC has received additional support for the TH!NK3: Developing World launch event from the European Commission. jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Exploring Childhood Studies conference announcement
by Patrick Cox 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference Rutgers University, Camden Registration is now open! The Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden proudly announces its first graduate student conference to be held April 09, 2010 on the Camden, New Jersey campus. The field of childhood studies engages in both theoretical and empirical study of children and childhood within historical, contemporary, interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, state, national, and global contexts. The multi-disciplinary nature of the field is one of its greatest strengths and the core of its remarkable potential for scholarly advancement, but also leaves the field open for exploration and interrogation, and its borders difficult, if not impossible, to define. The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood Studies by doing childhood studies. Papers will investigate childhood as a construct, children as a category, and the child as a real living human. The central focus of the 36 finalized papers will also be to interrogate the field of Childhood Studies itself. These 36 papers will be presented by graduate students from around the world, ranging across disciplines as widely as the field itself. Multi-disciplinary panels will center around the following themes: * Space and Place * Play * Girls and Identity * Outsider Identities * Poverty * Migration * Rights * Children and Nation * Law * The Care of Kids * Science Registration for The Exploring Childhood Studies conference is $15.00 and includes light breakfast, full lunch and reception. To register please call +1-856-225-6211. For further information visit http://clam.rutgers.edu/~childgso/conference/index.html or contact panel co-chairs Patrick Cox (ptcox(a)camden.rutgers.edu) or Anandini Dar (anandini(a)camden.rutgers.edu) Patrick Cox PhD Student Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ Co-Chair, Exploring Childhood Studies Conference http://crab.rutgers.edu/~bowman/conference/ "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course

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