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CfP: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2012
by Johann Hoechtl 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 30 April 2012-- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2012 Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 23 July 2012 (http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2012) Lisbon, Portugal, 17 - 23 July 2012 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Dr. Robert Willison, Principal Lecturer, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK * Conference background and goals The IADIS e-Commerce 2012 conference is a major international and interdisciplinary event for Researchers, academics, industry specialists, practitioners & students interested in the advances in, and applications of, e-Commerce. Participants will have an opportunity to present and observe the latest theories, models and results in these areas. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to this new business paradigm. The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced level on all topics related to e-Commerce. Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as describe innovative projects are encouraged. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line). The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services. * Best Papers Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Types of submissions Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to e-Commerce are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - e-Commerce Technology (Main area) - e-Business Applications and Software - Barriers to e-Business Adoption - Cryptography for enabling e-Commerce - Online Management (Main area) - Knowledge Management - Managing Innovation - Marketing on the Web - e-Commerce Strategy & Implementation - Economics of e-Commerce - Internet payment systems - Regulatory/Policy Issues (Main area) - Social Issues in e-Commerce - The Regulatory Environment of e-Commerce - Trust & Security Issues in e-Commerce - Global e-Commerce (Main area) - e-Commerce in developing countries - Global e-Commerce - Infrastructure for e-Commerce - Online Business Models (Main area) - e-Logistics - e-Government - e-Procurement - e-Services - Business-oriented e-Commerce - Consumer-oriented e-Commerce - Web advertising and Web Publishing - Retailing in e-Commerce (e-Tailing) - Mobile Commerce - Supply Chain Management & e-Fulfilment - e-Communities - Multimedia and Webcasting on the Web - Other e-Commerce Models and Applications * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (2nd call): 30 April 2012 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 28 May 2012 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 15 June 2012 - Late Registration (2nd call): After 15 June 2012 - Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 23 July 2012 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-COMMERCE 2012 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secree-Commerce 2012 Conference Program Chair Angela Lin, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom MCCSIS 2012 General Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/committees.asp * Registered participants in the e-Commerce conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2012 free of charge.

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Re: [Air-L] Sampling for online qualitative studies
by stu＠texifter.com 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

I would suggest using the principle of saturation rather than searching for a predetermined number. There are many variables that will ultimately determine the actual number (topic scope & nature, homophily, etc), but running out of finding new or interesting discoveries before stopping the data collection might make sense in your case. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman [1]http://people.umass.edu/stu Editor Emeritus, JITP [2]www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass [3]http://www.umass.edu/qdap Founder and CEO, Texifter [4]http://www.texifter.com LinkedIn: [5]http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: [6]http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-L] Sampling for online qualitative studies From: "Rebecca Thomas" <[7]ret00009(a)students.stir.ac.uk> Date: Wed, April 04, 2012 2:01 am To: [8]air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org I am looking for information on establishing a sample size for qualitative research using asynchronous discussion boards to collect data. I have found only a limited amount of information on this up to now so would appreciate being pointed towards any useful sources of information. Regards Becky Thomas -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. _______________________________________________ The [9]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [10]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [11]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [12]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://people.umass.edu/stu 2. http://www.jitp.net/ 3. http://www.umass.edu/qdap 4. http://www.texifter.com/ 5. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 6. http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman 7. mailto:ret00009@students.stir.ac.uk 8. mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org 9. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 10. http://aoir.org/ 11. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 12. http://www.aoir.org/

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Sampling for online qualitative studies
by Rebecca Thomas 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

I am looking for information on establishing a sample size for qualitative research using asynchronous discussion boards to collect data. I have found only a limited amount of information on this up to now so would appreciate being pointed towards any useful sources of information. Regards Becky Thomas -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture
by Peter Krapp 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Published last December and already in its second printing: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/noise-channels Noise Channels Glitch and Error in Digital Culture 2011 * Author: Peter Krapp ToC: Introduction 1. Hypertext and Its Anachronisms 2. Terror and Play, or What Was Hacktivism? 3. Noise Floor: Between Tinnitus and Raw Data 4. Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error 5. Machinima and the Suspensions of Animation To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency; in doing so, he shows how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture. Noise Channels offers a fresh look at hypertext and tactical media, tunes into laptop music, and situates the emergent forms of computer gaming and machinima in media history. Krapp analyzes text, image, sound, virtual spaces, and gestures in noisy channels of computer-mediated communication that seek to embrace-rather than overcome-the limitations and misfires of computing. Equally at home with online literature, the visual tactics of hacktivism, the recuperation of glitches in sound art, electronica, and videogames, or machinima as an emerging media practice, he explores distinctions between noise and information, and how games pivot on errors at the human-computer interface. Grounding the digital humanities in the conditions of possibility of computing culture, Krapp puts forth his insight on the critical role of information in the creative process. With a jam-packed intellectual bandwidth, Noise Channels reconfigures how we think about digital culture. Distortion reveals system characteristics: Peter Krapp uses this classic insight to illuminate the vibrant aesthetic and practical offspring of the computer. Marx knew it, Freud knew it, and so do Krapp's fractious gang of characters. Rarely have the secret affinities among continental high theorists, engineering visionaries, and avant-garde artists been revealed so freshly. - John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Noise Channels offers an intriguing and insightful analysis of 'creative writing' under the conditions of networked computing. Ranging from hypertext to machinima, it argues that cultural creativity operates by embracing, rather than overcoming or eliminating, limitations (noise). Noise Channels is, beyond doubt, an important contribution to the field of new media studies. - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University With Noise Channels, Krapp brings a welcome volume to an increasingly clamorous field of study. - Roy Christopher -- Peter Krapp Professor, Film & Media/Visual Studies, English, Informatics 2321 Humanities Gateway, ZOT 2435 University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2435 http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5102 new book: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/noise-channels

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New Book: Cross-Cultural Technology Design
by Huatong Sun 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce my new book from Oxford University Press, and I hope you find it interesting: Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/CognitivePsycholog… Companion website: http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199744763/ Please see below for detailed book information. Best wishes, Huatong Huatong Sun, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Digital Media Studies Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences University of Washington Tacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/ ABSTRACT The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities is frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action and meaning in cross-cultural technology design and presents an innovative framework, Culturally Localized User Experience (CLUE), to tackle this problem. Incorporating key concepts and methods from activity theory, British cultural studies, and rhetorical genre theory, the CLUE approach integrates action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to design technology that engages local users within culturally meaningful social practices. Illustrated with five in-depth case studies of mobile text messaging use by college students and young professionals in American and Chinese contexts spanning years, Sun calls for a change in cross-cultural design practices from simply applying cultural conventions in design to engaging with social affordances based on a rich understanding of meaningful contextualized activity. This book will be of interest to researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone who wants to create culture-sensitive technology in this increasingly globalized world that requires advanced strategies and techniques for culturally localized, participatory design. CONTENTS Part I Grounding Chapter 1 Approaching Culture in Cross-Cultural Technology Design Chapter 2 User Experience in Global Context Chapter 3 Integrating Action and Meaning in Cross-Cultural Design Chapter 4 CLUE as a Framework for Cross-Cultural User Experience Research Part II Experiences Chapter 5 Sophie's Story: New Chocolate at Work Chapter 6 Lili's Story: Pure Water in Social Network Chapter 7 Brian's Story: Conversations Carried through My Fingers Chapter 8 Mei's Story: "Idioms Solitaire" Between Sports Fans Chapter 9 Emma's Story: More than a Nice Gesture in a Technology-Mediated Life Part III Implications Chapter 10 Culturally Localized User Experience as Situated and Constructed Chapter 11 Future Directions “This insightful text offers a grounded approach to rethinking technology design, and gives a framework for creating innovative design, development, and deployment practices. Sun’s work illustrates clearly the ways in which traditional HCI and interaction design methods tend to miss the fact that technology and culture are intricately intertwined.” Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research and VP of ACM SigCHI “Huatong Sun offers an enlightening, but also useful set of theoretical principles, case histories, and scholarly implications that should assist researchers and analysts to bring products and services into being that are more evolved, sophisticated, humanistic, and successful.” Aaron Marcus, President, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Berkeley, California, USA “Dr. Sun’s book takes culture more seriously than most scholars working in this area, and she also provides us with some of the richest portraits of user knowledge that I have read.” Jeff Grabill, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Michigan State University **** Feb 2012; 352 pp Hardback; 9780199744763 20% Off Promo Code: 30641

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Opinion on survey question
by Pam Brewer 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Colleagues-- I am working on a survey of engineering professionals and would like your input (from an international perspective) on my demographic question about level of education. One of the primary goals of the survey is to collect international data, so I do not want to preference U.S. degrees, but I cannot list all possible degrees. I would appreciate your opinion on the following with that in mind. What is your highest degree completed? Associate's degree Bachelor's degree Master's degree Multiple master's degrees Ph.D. Multiple Ph.D.s Other ________ In which country did you earn this/these degree(s)? Thank you for your feedback. Pam -- Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of English Appalachian State University Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe(a)appstate.edu

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Information Society Virtual library: 33.000 texts
by Bernardo Sorj 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Dear Colleague, We are happy to inform you that our virtual library with academic texts on the Information Society, in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Catalan, has reached the mark of 33.000 articles: http://www.bvce.org/SociedadeInformacao.asp Best, Bernardo Sorj Director - Edelstein Center for Social Research <http://www.centroedesltein.org> www.centroedesltein.org Dr. Bernardo Sorj www.bernardosorj.org <http://www.bernardosorj.com> www.centroedelstein.org.br

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|| Academic MindTrek Conference 2012 || CfP || 30th April: Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials due
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

============================================================================================ Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials 3rd-5th October, 2012 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on: 30th April 2012 Tutorials and Workshops due on: 1st June 2012 in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals ============================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference, 3rd ? 5th October 2012, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. The conference explores academically the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life. October 3rd is the main Academic MindTrek day. Due increasing popularity of the conference, we are extending the scope of Academic MindTrek 2012! The academic conference features six major themes: * Social Media * Ambient & Ubiquitous Media * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction (new track!) * Open Source * Digital Games SOCIAL MEDIA ?Get social!? Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space. AMBIENT AND UBIQUITOUS MEDIA ?The medium is the message!? ? This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, location based services, ubiquitous computation, augmented reality, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick. MEDIA BUSINESS, MEDIA PRODUCTION AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence of new forms of digital media. This theme focuses on business studies, policies, practices, and organizational structure of media firms. It discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital media focusing on media business and media management issues. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) The wide field of HCI is to discuss issues around human computer interaction modalities, consumer experience, design of computer systems, human aspects, universal media access, ergonomics, communication, novel interaction modalities, privacy, trusted systems, interaction theories, and sociological and psychological factors. This theme of devotes to several of these aspects, and is targeted to the scientific community dealing with several applied and theoretical aspects of HCI and user experience. OPEN SOURCE The last decade has seen a significant increase in open source initiatives such as open source software, open standards, open content, open media, or even open source hardware. On the one hand, the open movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as new business models and development approaches. On the other hand, it has introduced new kinds of technical and non-technical challenges. DIGITAL GAMES The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works, empirical case studies and constructive projects. DEMONSTRATIONS The aim is to gather demonstrations from researchers and professionals from the communities related to the topics of MindTrek. The objective for the demonstrations is to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, practical projects, or media demonstrators. The target audience includes members of the academic community, industry, or laboratories who can demonstrate the results of their research projects with a practical implementation. ACADEMIC MINDTREK AS A CONFERENCE In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to register for the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference with our special registration rate. The Academic MindTrek registration includes full service such as coffees, lunches, and social gatherings. The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy, to technology. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop proposals, demonstration proposals, and tutorial proposals. Extended abstracts will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings; however, they will not be published within the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. Several papers should follow the style guidelines of the conference. SHORT AND LONG PAPER PROPOSALS All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. Short papers should be between 2-4 pages long and the paper presentation will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion within a session; long papers should be 6-8 pages and will be presented in 20 minutes slots, plus 5 minutes discussion. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with the Academic MindTrek. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 2 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. DEMONSTRATIONS PROPOSALS Demonstration proposals shall be 2-3 pages and include: a) a description and motivation of the demonstration; b) general architecture of the demonstration; c) description of the main features; d) a brief comparison with other existing related demonstrations; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the demonstration (if applicable); f) the type of license, and g) the Internet address of the demonstration (if applicable). It is strongly recommended that the authors make the demonstration (or a suitable version or movie) on the Internet during the evaluation. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2-4 hours. EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Extended abstracts should be between 1-2 pages long and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the conference. Extended abstracts will not be published within the ACM digital library. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Posters should be between 2-3 pages long and a poster should be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall during the conference. SUBMISSION DEADLINES - 30th April 2012: deadline for long papers (6-8 pages), short papers (3-4 pages), extended abstracts (1-2 pages), posters (1-2 pages) and demonstrations (2-3 pages) - 1st June 2012: deadline for tutorial proposals and workshop proposals - 20 July: camera ready papers and copyright forms KEY-DATES - 30th June 2012: notification of acceptance/rejection for papers, extended abstracts, posters, and demos, tutorials - 5th August 2012: submission of camera ready papers - 3rd-5th October 2012: Academic MindTrek and MindTrek Business Conference Suggested key-dates for workshop organizers - 15th August 2012: deadline for workshop papers - 10th September 2012: deadline for camera-ready papers CONFERENCE THEMES 1. Social Media - business models, service models, and policies - social media in innovation and business - intra- and interorganizational use of social media - questions related to identity, motivation and values - blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - knowledge management and learning with social media - experience management with social media - crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks - enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - evaluation and research methods of social media - social media and community design - benefits and limitations of social media applications 2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Users - applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology - ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive Internet, and smart daily objects - personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous - theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems - business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies - user positioning, location awareness - augmented reality in ubiquitous applications - device interoperability, remote user interfaces, inter-device connections 3. Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management - media policy, politics, practices, conception, and media regulation - organizational structures, practices, and strategies - production technology, processes, and optimization - business models, service models, public funding, and media economics - patterns of media use, engagement, and consumer experiences - advertising, media consumption, new audience models, and media user models - competition analysis, media governing, assessment, performance indicators - business and media management: gaming, social media, Internet, digital cinema, iTV - traditional media business and management: broadcasting, publishing, journalism, and movie industry - innovative service designs, strategies, and ideas - teaching & training of media management and media business 4. Human-Computer Interaction - user experience and experience design - interaction design techniques and methods - user interaction and HCI design - creativity, practices and innovation in HCI - analysis, theories, and procedures in interaction design - methods, systems, and toolkits supporting HCI - human centered computing and understanding interaction - interactivity methods - designing for experience and interactivity - design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems - phenomena surrounding interactivity 5. Open Source - forms of openness: open source software, open standards, open content, open media, open source hardware, and open access - establishment of an open source community - practices on developing open source systems - practices for maintaining a successful project - open source processes and techniques - differences on open source and closed source systems - using open source in commercial context - challenges of open source development - teaching open source in academia and industry 6. Digital Games - theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play - analysis of player experience - game design research - economy and business models in the game industry - innovation in and around games - digital distribution of games - online gaming - social and casual gaming - player-created content - pervasive and ubiquitous gaming - mobile and cross-media gaming - gamification, funware and playful designs PAPER SUBMISSION - Please follow the style guidelines on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting your paper - Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) - Submit papers here http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Helj? Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN Karsten Wolf, Univ. Bremen, GER Hannu K?rkk?inen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Janne Paavilainen, University of Tampere (UTA), FIN Theresa Champel, Univ. of Lisbon, PT Yuan Fu, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN CONTACT Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops, scientific contributions: Email:academic-mindtrek-chairs@listmail.tut.fi General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms, local arrangements, and the venue: Email: academic-mindtrek-info(a)listmail.tut.fi PAPER SUBMISSIONS http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.academicmindtrek.org SUPPORTED BY MindTrek Association, City of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere University (UTA), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Ambient Media Association (AMEA).

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CFP: HICSS-46 Technologically Mediated Relationship/Online Dating Minitrack
by Christopher Mascaro 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

*TRACK: INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY* * Minitrack: Technologically Mediated Relationship Creation and Maintenance * Online dating sites are a unique laboratory for understanding human relationship initiation, development and self-identified success. Presently, online dating research is scattered across numerous disciplines. An integrated, interdisciplinary discourse of how technology mediates the initiation and maintenance of relationships is necessary to advance the research and development of information and communication technologies to support online relationship formation. For example, the work of the organizers suggests that there are different views of what a successful online dating relationship looks like, depending on the socio-technical context. What will the next generation of online dating do to accommodate these differences? To what extent will online dating emerge as a significant component of social media more generally? How do the needs of online daters change through life? We invite papers that address Technology-Mediated Relationship Creation and Maintenance, which can include online dating or a number of other topics such as the following: 1. User motivation for undertaking online dating 2. Profile Development and Maintenance 3. Information seeking behavior within the websites 4. Communication activity within and external to the website 5. Access mechanisms for online dating sites 6. Social media utilization for similar purposes or to verify information about potential dates 7. Motivation for terminating the usage of a site (both successful and unsuccessful) 8. Outside of sites explicitly designed for dating, where and how do people create relationships online? 9. Non-romantic measures of online relationship creation success We invite you to check out http://www.onlinedatinginformatics.com for a full CFP and email cmascaro(a)gmail.com with any questions

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CFP reminder - Media, Technology & Society Conference 2012 - Infosocial. Deadline April. 15.
by Ryan Whalen 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

My apologies for cross posting. I'm writing to remind list members (and their colleagues and students) of the upcoming Media, Technology and Society program's graduate student conference titled "Infosocial: Where information and the social sciences collide." The extended abstract submission deadline is April 15th. Call details are at the conference website (http://bit.ly/InfoSocialCFP) and follow in the text below. Please feel free to distribute widely and pass the word along to graduate students and programs. *Call for Papers* *InfoSocial: Where information and the social sciences collide.* A graduate student conference hosted by the Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) program at Northwestern University As the information infrastructure of contemporary social life becomes increasingly complex and visible, disparate modes of inquiry converge. We are surrounded by a proliferation of data that provides a unique window into a wide array of individual and collective behavior. The changes in the visibility and availability of such data have challenged the technical and conceptual boundaries of the social sciences. This, in turn, has triggered a growth in interdisciplinary collaboration, and in methodological and theoretical innovation. Our conference aims to contribute to these collaborative and innovative developments by bringing together graduate student scholarship from across the academic spectrum. We seek papers authored by graduate students that address relevant topics within and across disciplines, including contributions from communication and media studies, sociology, psychology, computer science, science and technology studies, information science, political science, and anthropology, among others. Possible submission topics include (but are not limited to): • Linked data/semantic web and society • Privacy and information management • Measuring online behavior • Collective action and crowd sourcing • Internet skill and literacy • Open source and innovation • Complexity and technological change • History and information • Information at work • Educational technology • Networks and the information society • Methodological developments *Important Information:* Extended abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2012 Acceptance notification date: May 15, 2012 Conference Dates: October 12-13, 2012 Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Conference URL: http://bit.ly/InfoSocialCFP Email: mtsconference(a)u.northwestern.edu To submit, please visit http://bit.ly/NUMTSconference and upload an extended abstract of no more than 500 words. Note: There will be no fee to attend and/or participate in the conference. Meals will be provided and interested attendees may request to be housed with Northwestern students. While we can make no guarantees, we will do our best to accommodate requests. Best Regards, -- Ryan Whalen PhD Student - Media, Technology & Society Northwestern University School of Communication JD Student - Northwestern Law ryanwhalen.com 773.800.0345

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