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Enabling older users to create and share self authored multimedia content Workshop
by A.C.Roibas＠bton.ac.uk 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, This workshop can be of interest for the AOIR community (see below). Best, Anxo ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás, SCMIS Faculty of Management & Information Sciences University of Brighton Watts Building, Moulsecoomb Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK m +44(0)7814 491790; t +44(0)1273 64 2458; f +44(0)1273 64 2405 http://cmis.mis.brighton.ac.uk/staff/anxo/ Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities: enabling older users to create and share self authored multimedia content workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP 2006 www.sintef.no/ubicomp This workshop is a discussion platform to unfold the design of future scenarios of pervasive interactive multimedia for elderly people. These systems should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this workshop addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked applications. The aim is to generate debate about the design and development of new pervasive applications which will make it possible for elderly citizens to be content creators and consumers of self-authored content facilitating in this way leisure and social activities and, at the same time, encouraging mobility. The workshop will focus on a discussion on new methods such as living labs, on-the-field enactments, 'Cultural Probes', Participatory Design approaches and advanced in-situ evaluation techniques.. Moreover, workshop organizers will open up a debate around how too identify suitable novel interaction models more appropriate for these scenarios. PARTICIPATION Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper (no longer than 4 A4 pages) about a research or study (to be included in one of the sessions described above) they have been involved with before the 16 June to a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and participants will be selected on the basis of their interests, quality of the position papers and familiarity with the topic. The best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a prestigious HCI journal. DEADLINES July 5, 2006: Submission Deadline (workshop position papers) July 24, 2006: Acceptance Notification (workshop position papers) September 17-18, 2006: Workshops September 19-21, 2006: UbiComp Main Conference ORGANIZERS Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás University of Brighton Petter Bae Brandtzæg SINTEF ICT Prof. Dr. Veerle Van Rompaey University of Leuven Urpo Tuomela, City of Oulu

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BumpTop GUI
by Ellis Godard 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

The biggest potential change to desktop GUI since Windows, or an overworked physics farce that will never see broad use? Either way, the ability to pile, scatter, bump, ruffle, nudge, toss, lasso, fold, crumple, and shelve icons as if they were physical objects, makes my head spin - in a good direction. Here's a demo (the 7 min version is worthwhile!!): http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/BumpTop.html Here's a review: http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/23/bumptop/#more-584 Regards, Ellis Godard, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Sociology Department Cal State Northridge www.csun.edu/~egodard

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CFP: Santa Barbara 2008-Writing Research Across Borders (5/1/07; UCSB 2/22/08-2/24/08)
by Karen Lunsford 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi everyone, AoIR research interests often intersect with those of Writing Studies (e.g., human-computer interaction, online communities' writing, distributed work practices, etc.), so I thought many of you might like to see this call. Very best wishes, Karen Lunsford, UCSB ----- Forwarded message from bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu ----- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:41:30 -0700 From: Chuck Bazerman <bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu> Please distribute widely Open Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders February 22-24, 2008 University of California Santa Barbara Conference website; http://education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf08/ Proposal Deadline: May 1, 2007 Email: writing(a)education.ucsb.edu Recent decades have seen the growth of writing studies in many nations, focused on all levels of education, and all uses of writing in society, using the resources of many different disciplines. This increased research attention to writing reflects an increased recognition of the importance of writing in modern societies. Yet to a large extent the many emerging traditions of writing research have neither connected fully nor shared their work. This conference brings together the many writing researchers from around the world, drawing on all disciplines, and focused on all aspects of writing at all levels of development and in all segments of society. This will be an opportunity to learn from different research traditions, share our findings, seek common agendas, and lay the groundwork for future communication and alliances. As a first step to building this important conversation we have invited some of the leading writing researchers, and those listed at the bottom of this call have already committed to participating. We are now issuing an open call for proposals for panels, roundtables, individual presentations, and poster presentations addressing * current research on writing, * methodological issues * reflections on ongoing research programs * considerations of national or disciplinary trajectories of research * agendas for further research We anticipate a program of up to two hundred and fifty presentations. Proposals to present current research should specify research questions, methods, data corpus, and findings, as well as the scope and duration of the research project. Proposals to provide overviews of and reflections on research traditions and agendas should identify clearly the relevant literatures to be considered. Proposals for individual and poster presentations should be from 250 to 500 words in length and panel and roundtable proposals, 500 to 1000 words. Please indicate your preferred format. Proposals should be sent by May 1, 2007 via email to writing(a)education.ucsb.edu .Please include complete contact information. For further information please visit our conference website: http://education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf08/ If you have any questions contact us at writing(a)education.ucsb.edu INVITED SPEAKERS already committed to participating: Paula Carlino, Argentina, University of Buenos Aires Caroline Channock, Australia, Latrobe Rosemary Clerehan, Australia, Monash University Luuk van Waes, Belgium, University of Antwerp Angela Dionisio, Brazil, UFP, Recife Angela Kleiman, Brazil, Unicamp-Sao Paulo Marilyn Chapman, Canada , University of British Columbia Graham Smart, Canada, Carleton University Denis Alamargot, France, University of Poitiers Michel Fayol, France, University Blaise Pascal Frederic Francoise, France, Université de Paris V Annie Piolat, France, University de Provence Sylvie Plane, France, IUF de Paris Yves Reuter, France, Université Lille Joachim Grabowski, Germany, University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany Pietro Boscolo, Italy, University of Padua Emilia Ferreiro, Mexico, National Polytechnic Institute Gert Rijlarsdam, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam Lisa Emerson, New Zealand, Massey University Olga Dysthe, Norway, University of Bergen Rochelle Kapp, South Africa, University of Cape Town Liliana Tolchinsky, Spain, University of Barcelona Linda Allal, Switzerland, Universite de Geneve Otto Kruse, Switzerland, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Switzerland David Galbraith, UK, University of Staffordshire Ken Hyland, UK, University of London Roz Ivanic, UK, Lancaster University Theresa Lillis, UK, Open University Brian Street, UK, Kings College- London Mark Torrance, UK, University of Staffordshire Arnetha Ball, USA, Stanford University Charles Bazerman, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Anne Beaufort, USA, SUNY Stony Brook Carol Berkenkotter, USA, University of Minnesota Virginia Berninger, USA, University of Washington Sheridan Blau, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Ulla Connor, USA, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Christiane Donahue, USA, University of Maine, Farmington Ann Dyson, USA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jill Fitzgerald, USA, University North Carolina Chapel Hill Steve Graham, USA, Vanderbilt Kris Gutierrez, USA, University of California Los Angeles Christina Haas, USA, Kent State University Richard Haswell, USA, TAMU Corpus Christi John R. Hayes, USA, Carnegie Mellon University George Hillocks, USA, University of Chicago Tom Huckin, USA, University of Utah Susan Jarratt, USA, University of California Irvine Ilona Leki, USA, University of Tennessee Paul LeMahieu, USA, University of California Berkeley Andrea Lunsford, USA, Stanford University Karen Lunsford, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Charles MacArthur, USA, University of Delaware Paul Matsuda, USA, University of New Hampshire Debra McCutcheon, USA, University of Washington Heidi McKee, USA, Miami University Sandy Murphy, USA, UC Davis Bill Nagy, USA, Seattle Pacific University Sondra Perl, USA, CUNY Graduate Center Jim Porter, USA, Michigan State University Paul Prior, USA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign David Russell, USA, State University Rebecca Rickly, USA, Texas Technological University Tony Silva, USA, Purdue University Peter Smagorinsky, USA, University of Georgia Melanie Sperling, USA, University of California Riverside Clay Spinuzzi, USA, University of Texas Austin John Swales, USA, University of Michigan Chris Thaiss, USA, University of California Davis Gary Troia, USA, Michigan State University Kathleen Blake Yancey, USA, Florida State University -- Professor Charles Bazerman Department of Education Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone: 805-893-7543 bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: [IP] The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA
by Jeremy Hunsinger 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

a little sousveillance of the surveillance... from interesting people: > > > This entry from the blog at wired.com might be good for the IP > list. The best part is at the end. Good old traceroute! > -------------------------------------------------------- > The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA > http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/#1510938 ... "With that in mind, > here's the 27B Stroke 6 guide to detecting if your traffic is being > funneled into the secret room on San Francisco's Folsom street. If > you're a Windows user, fire up an MS-DOS command prompt. Now type > tracert followed by the domain name of the website, e-mail host, > VoIP switch, or whatever destination you're interested in. Watch as > the program spits out your route, line by line. C:\> tracert > nsa.gov 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 12.110.110.204 [...] 7 11 ms 14 ms 10 ms > as-0-0.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [64.159.0.218] 8 13 12 19 ms > ae-23-56.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.173] 9 18 ms 16 ms 16 > ms 192.205.33.17 10 88 ms 92 ms 91 ms tbr2-p012201.sffca.ip.att.net > [12.123.13.186] 11 88 ms 90 ms 88 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net > [12.122.10.41] 12 89 ms 97 ms 89 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net > [12.122.10.29] 13 89 ms 88 ms 88 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net > [12.123.8.65] 14 102 ms 93 ms 112 ms 12.127.209.214 15 94 ms 94 ms > 93 ms 12.110.110.13 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * In the above example, > my traffic is jumping from Level 3 Communications to AT&T's network > in San Francisco, presumably over the OC-48 circuit that AT&T > tapped on February 20th, 2003, according to the Klein docs. The > magic string you're looking for is sffca.ip.att.net. If it's > present immediately above or below a non-att.net entry, then -- by > Klein's allegations -- your packets are being copied into room > 641A, and from there, illegally, to the NSA. Of course, if Marcus > is correct and AT&T has installed these secret rooms all around the > country, then any att.net entry in your route is a bad sign. > > ------------------------------------- > You are subscribed as jhuns(a)vt.edu > To manage your subscription, go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > > Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- > people/ Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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check before you write
by Barry Wellman 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I am saddened by Mark Bell's note to this list: Mark Bell wrote: > interesting study....sort of. I doubt it even mentions online social > relationships or concurrent online/rl relationships. It almost sounds to me > to be from some pro-nuclear family agenda (he golden days in the 50's when we > had the Murphy's over to play cards and we actually talked). For instance > how many of you would i be contacting in the 80's? I feel more connected > than ever to people. But then I'm a nerd =) > > Anyone have a copy of the real study? > There is a link on the Washington Post website to the ASR article. And also at the asanet.org (front page) Plus of course the article is in the print and online version of the journal, American Sociological Review, June 2006. (All of which was stated in my original post about it.) Why am I saddened: 1. Not every piece of research has to be about online relationships. This one asked who people discuss important matters with -- no more and no less. It didn't specify whether it is online or offline. 2. Asking that question is legitimate. It is not a pro-nuclear family agenda. And as my note said, it is from the gold-standard US General Social Survey, which is vetted by serious scholars, and exactly replicates a 1985 survey question. In addition, as 2 minutes with scholar.google would have shown, these are serious, respected scholars with a long track record. 3. Now, as I have said before, I have problems with the social isolation spin that the news media put on the article, but trashing it without reading it is silly -- especially on a list dedicated to Research -- that's the "R" in AOIR -- and long may it stay there and not become the AOIB. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (july 2006)
by David M Silver 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

hello! an excellent new batch of RCCS book reviews and author responses ( http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp ) this month: [1] Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society Author: Steven Shaviro Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Review 1: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Review 2: Jarice Hanson Review 3: Meredith Tromble Author Response: Steven Shaviro [2] Shaping Things Author: Bruce Sterling Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 Review 1: Teodor Mitew Review 2: Jentery Sayers Review 3: Alan Sondheim Author Response: Bruce Sterling [3] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing Author: Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher Publisher: MIT Press, 2003 Review 1: Carly Woods Author Response: Jane Margolis [4] Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet Editor: Christine Hine Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005 Review 1: Susan Keith Review 2: Nils Zurawski Author Response: Christine Hine enjoy. david silver http://silverinseattle.blogspot.com/

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Fwd: [Asis-l] FW: Invitation to complete Digital Curation Centre on-line survey
by Jeremy Hunsinger 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

> > ***Apologies for cross-posting*** > > Scientists, researchers and scholars across the UK generate > increasingly > vast amounts of digital data. JISC and EPSRC have funded the > establishment > of a Digital Curation Centre (DCC) to support curation activities > within UK > institutions that create, store, manage and/or preserve these data. > For more > information on the DCC, please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk. > > To evaluate the level of current curation activity and the DCC’s > effectiveness in raising awareness regarding digital curation > issues, we > would like to invite you to complete our on-line survey. Whatever > your role > in the life-cycle of digital information – from researchers to > archivists to > data re-users - we would like to hear from you. The survey will take > between 15 and 20 minutes to complete and as a small token of our > appreciation, we are offering one lucky entrant the chance to win > an iPod > nano (competition rules apply). > > The results of this survey, together with the results of focus > groups and > one-to-one interviews will help us to determine how we might better > serve > the digital curation, preservation, and eScience communities. > > To complete the on-line survey, please go to > http://www.dcc.ac.uk/adding/public_survey/. > > The deadline for completing this survey is July 28th, 2006. > > Best regards, > > Joy Davidson > DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor > Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) > George Service House, 11 University Gardens, > University of Glasgow > Glasgow G12 8QJ > Scotland > Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 > Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 > http://www.dcc.ac.uk > http://www.erpanet.org > > > ____ > ________________________________________ > Asis-l mailing list > Asis-l(a)asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Webcam article recommendations?
by Sarah Michele Ford 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm looking for recs for work on webcams, particularly as they relate to issues of publicity & privacy. Any and all suggestions will be happily entertained! Thanks, Sarah *********************** Sarah Michele Ford Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts - Amherst ford(a)soc.umass.edu

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Re: [Air-l] overstated media inference from fine study
by Greg Elmer 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Barry, >From what I can tell, the study discussed in the Post does not directly discuss the Internet. Perhaps people that you've studied (The Strength of Internet Ties) have more social ties because they use the net more? Or at least this is how the Post article, posits your critique of the Lynn Smith-Lovin study... -GE ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> Date: Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:02 am Subject: [Air-l] overstated media inference from fine study > Re the Washington Post story below (and a similar USA Today story): > > To my mind, it's an interesting case of media distortion. > > The good news: the accounts are based on a high-quality survey (US > GeneralSocial Survey) by first-class reseachers (Lynn Smith-Lovin > & Miller > McPherson) + Matthew Brashaers whom I don't know, in sociology's > leadingjournal, American Sociological Review. I was a referee on > this paper, btw, > and revealed myself at appropriate time to the authors. > > The study replicates one stimulus Q from the General Social Survey 20 > years ago about who do you have to discuss important matters with. It > finds a mean of about 2 in 2004, down from 3 in 1984 (or was it 1985)? > > Here's the problem: > > Based on this, the 2 newspapers have created a huge social > isolation spin > on this, when it's well known that people have lotsa ties, not just > 2 or > 3. See our data from Pew Internet, Connected Lives study) + lotsa > others.Indeed, altho we are not as parallel as the US GSS, > comparing Connected > Lives (3rd East York study, 2004) with the second East York study > (1979data) shows more active ties now, both intimate and > significant ties. > > Thus the media spin is a huge inferential leap from a decline in the > super-core ties to saying Americans are socially isolated. > > If you read further in the Washington Post and USA Today articles, > you'llsee me quoted as suggesting that we now have more ties -- and > more contact > with ties -- but that relationships are differentiated. In other > words,the relative decline in discussion partners shouldn't be > generalized to > either absolute isolation or even growing isolation. > > Of course, YMMV. > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director > wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 > > > > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:56:00 -0400 > From: Richard Forno <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> > Subject: [Air-l] Americans and social isolation > > It would be interesting to see how this fits into the whole "being > alonetogether" argument within a technology context....for example, > someone who > doesn't want to be around people but who socializes happily in a > MMORPGenvironment or spends hours upon hours on AIM or IRC. > > > Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says > The Number of People Who Say They Have No One to Confide In Has Risen > > By Shankar Vedantam > Washington Post Staff Writer > Friday, June 23, 2006; A03 > > Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two > decadesago, and a sharply growing number of people say they have no > one in whom > they can confide, according to a comprehensive new evaluation of > the decline > of social ties in the United States. > > A quarter of Americans say they have no one with whom they can discuss > personal troubles, more than double the number who were similarly > isolatedin 1985. Overall, the number of people Americans have in > their closest > circle of confidants has dropped from around three to about two. > > The comprehensive new study paints a sobering picture of an > increasinglyfragmented America, where intimate social ties -- once > seen as an integral > part of daily life and associated with a host of psychological and > civicbenefits -- are shrinking or nonexistent. In bad times, far > more people > appear to suffer alone. > > --- > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- > dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201763_pf.html > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Americans and social isolation
by Richard Forno 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

It would be interesting to see how this fits into the whole "being alone together" argument within a technology context....for example, someone who doesn't want to be around people but who socializes happily in a MMORPG environment or spends hours upon hours on AIM or IRC. Interesting ponderage for a Friday afternoon.... -rick Infowarrior.org Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says The Number of People Who Say They Have No One to Confide In Has Risen By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 23, 2006; A03 Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two decades ago, and a sharply growing number of people say they have no one in whom they can confide, according to a comprehensive new evaluation of the decline of social ties in the United States. A quarter of Americans say they have no one with whom they can discuss personal troubles, more than double the number who were similarly isolated in 1985. Overall, the number of people Americans have in their closest circle of confidants has dropped from around three to about two. The comprehensive new study paints a sobering picture of an increasingly fragmented America, where intimate social ties -- once seen as an integral part of daily life and associated with a host of psychological and civic benefits -- are shrinking or nonexistent. In bad times, far more people appear to suffer alone. < - > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201 763_pf.html

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