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MSc Scholarships in HCI at City University
by Panayiotis Zaphiris 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

MSc in Human Centred Systems ============================ Centre for HCI Design, City University, London http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk City's MSc in Human-Centred Systems is entering its second year, and is welcoming applications. This year we are making 8 SCHOLARSHIPS available to well-qualified home and overseas applicants. Each scholarship is valued at £4,000, and is intended to assist students to pay their course fees. The scholarships will be awarded on a competitive basis to the most promising applicants. The Centre for HCI Design (CHCID) is the largest academic HCI research group in the London area, with world-class expertise in web design and accessibility, usability evaluation, user-centred design, requirements and web services. It applies this expertise to deliver a unique mix of 8 taught modules: - Human-Computer Interaction Design; - Requirements Engineering; - Inclusive Design; - Multimedia Design; - Advanced Human-Computer Interaction; - Evaluation of Systems; - Systems Specification; - Professional and Research Skills. Students also undertake an individual research project in the form of a thesis. This year the MSc is available as a full-time 1-year course or part-time 2-year course with pairs of modules taught on a single day to minimise the time that students need to take off work. Upon completing this course, graduates will have excellent skills in designing and evaluating software products and systems, with particular strengths in interaction design, accessibility, usability evaluation, requirements and the UML, and designing and evaluating systems for people with disabilities and the elderly. Course requirements: The usual minimum entrance requirement is a good second class honours degree from a UK university in a numerate discipline, a recognised equivalent from an accredited overseas institution or an equivalent professional qualification. For students whose first language is not English, an IELTS score of 6.5 or TOEFL score of 600 (250 computer-based version) is required. The Centre for HCI Design currently boasts 6 academic staff and over 20 research staff. It undertakes fundamental long-term research funded by the EPSRC and EU, and more applied research in collaboration with commercial and governmental organisations and charities. Research areas include: holistic system design methods, usability evaluation, tools and methods to support interactive system design, assistive technologies and designing for diverse users, culture and creativity in design, e-Learning, requirements engineering for socio-technical systems, business process modeling, component-based system development. Further details: Please sent general enquiries to pgenquire(a)soi.city.ac.uk or browse our web-site at: http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/ and http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/pgcourses/hcs/index.html --

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Fwd: AMSU: Summer Programme 2005 - Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer Univers ity
by jeremy hunsinger 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

some of these are interesting enough. Begin forwarded message: > From: AMSU Summer Courses <Summer.Courses(a)amsu.edu> > Date: March 22, 2005 10:44:55 AM EST > To: AMSU Summer Courses <Summer.Courses(a)amsu.edu> > Subject: AMSU: Summer Programme 2005 - Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer > Univers ity > > Amsterdam, Spring 2005 > > > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > It is our pleasure to present you with the course programme of The > Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University 2005 which is available on our > website http://www.amsu.edu with the latest information on our > workshops and seminars. > > Thanks to the experience of our partner institutions in Amsterdam and > Maastricht and the informal dynamism of our programmes, the AMSU > harnesses the expertise available from professionals from all over the > world and matches them with inquisitive participants from all over the > world. > > Those leaving an AMSU programme will have talked a lot, argued, made > friends and intensively explored the world they are facing. They will > have been stimulated as much as informed. They will have taught as > much as they have learned. > > I hope this programme will be of interest to you, your colleagues and > friends and am looking forward to meeting you (once again!) this > summer! > > Yours sincerely, > Joanneke Lootsma > Director > > T +31 (0)20 6200225 > F +31 (020)6249368 > E office@ amsu.edu > W www.amsu.edu > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: [Air-l] Internet vs. WWW
by Art McGee 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

> Up till now, i've commonsensically used "the Internet" to > denote, essentially, everything that i can access or > receive and anyone i connect with when i "go online" > (connect my computer to data that is not on my computer's > harddrive). In other words, i've used "the Internet" to > denote the sum of all that's online. Incorrect. The sum total of all that is metaphorically referred to as "online" is most properly called Cyberspace. Some people extend cyberspace to include non-computer related technologies and forms of communication not involving technology, but for the most part, common usage of the term Cyberspace has narrowed over the years to be specific to CMC. Cyberspace predates The Internet and is a superset of The Internet. Cyberspace includes proprietary networks and protocols that existed before the Internet was conceived of and still exist outside of it. > I've always assumed commonsensically that "the world wide > web" simply denotes the network of computers that are > "online" (all or part of the time). Since what's online > has to rest (or am i missing some basic tech fact?) on > some computer, and since to access what's on a particular > computer, that computer needs to connected to other > computers, "the World Wide Web" and "the Internet" as i > understood their meaning refer to the same referent. Incorrect. The Internet proper is a distributed network of networks which consists of a common set of technical protocols that serve as the foundation upon which almost all CMC services or groups of services currently rest, including the WWW. The Internet is essentially an open communications platform and agreement upon which services are built. The Internet itself doesn't do anything. What makes The Internet special is what it allows you to build with it. The WWW is a subset and extension of the The Internet, consisting of both a communications protocol (HTTP) and a page markup language (HTML), whose specific purpose is the presentation of information in a format that previously was only possible via desktop publishing. In other words, the WWW was created in order to move some aspects of DTP from your local hard disk onto the larger network. Previously, most information on the net was served in extremely simple ASCII text formats. The Internet predates the WWW. The WWW is a recent extension and addition to The Internet. Before the WWW, there were other cruder protocols and services which had a similar function and purpose. They went by names such as ARCHIE, VERONICA, GOPHER, and WAIS. > also, up till now i also thought of "cyberworld" as an a > term interchangeable with the other two terms, but that > leaves me with no term to denote the "life-world" of > people online, as distinguished from "the Internet" as > defined above. Could "cyberworld" be used to denote this > "life-world", or will that be another gross carelessness > with definitions (i can almost feel Thomas Hobbes standing > behind me getting ready to slap me ... ) Cyberspace is definitely NOT interchangeable with The Internet or the WWW. As I said before: Cyberspace is a superset of The Internet. Cyberspace predates The Internet. Cyberspace exists outside of The Internet. The Internet is a superset of The WWW. The Internet predates The WWW. The WWW is a subset and extension of The Internet. Art

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A new web annotation tool
by Scott A. Golder 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi, AIRfans. I've just finished building a new tool for discussing news articles in which users annotate directly on the articles' web pages. I'm looking for people who might enjoy using it to try it out. It's called Webbed Footnotes. While of course web annotation is a pretty well-trod space, my goal is twofold: first, I designed it with the goal of making even a heavily-annotated page remain legible. Secondly, the "approval" system I've implemented is designed to promote more useful/interesting content. There's more about this on the project's webpage. The URL is: http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/projects/webbedfootnotes If you, or your students, colleagues or friends enjoy current events discussion online, please share this with them. I would appreciate it, and hopefully those who use it will find it useful and enjoyable. Thanks, Scott -- Scott A. Golder golder(a)media.mit.edu http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/

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RE: [Air-l] References to the dark side of mobile technology?
by O''Riordan, Kate 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi Ylva This may be taking your enquiry too literally but one 'dark side' could be issues of perceptions of public health. Debates about this and mobile telephony, in the UK, seem to be centred around the Stewart Report which seems to have drawn from a previous report from Sweden - these are also linked to current WHO research and EU recommendations. I have put what links I have below. I hope this is useful. All the best Kate In the UK Stewart Report on Mobile Phones: http://www.iegmp.org.uk/report/text.htm The Swerdlow Report, Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), ?Health effects from radiofrequency electromagnetic fields?, 2003. www.nrpb.org In Sweden: http://www.ssi.se/ Swedish Radiation Protection Authority: First annual report from SSI"s Independent Expert Group on Electromagnetic Fields (18 December 2003) Council of Europe recomends 31999H0519 1999/519/EC: Council Recommendation of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) Official Journal L 199 , 30/07/1999 P. 0059 - 0070 http://europa.eu.int/smar ------------------------- Dr Kate O'Riordan CESAGen Lancaster University www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk

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we need a new word? tele - learning vs e - learning?
by Cristian Berrio 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Can please someone help me to state the diferences between these two concepts (if existant)? For me Telelearning (taken from the Spanish "Tele educación" so maybe there is another better word in English) are the different ICT tools and contents that once impact society create a dynamic called "e-learning", the social state of virtual ICT4LEARNING tools produccing a new kind of knowledge transmission, creation, storage and retrieveing routines in society. If I am correct then, what are the basic productive routines of Tele-education ICT processes so one can generally create a conceptual flow diagram of activities nessesary to create, the basic sequences of resourses, tools, and processes to reach an e-learning state? I am trying to draw a map about this to help some people understanding the technical minimumns required. Thanks for your comments Cristian Berrío Zapata Universidad Javeriana Colombia - Sotuh America _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/

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References to the dark side of mobile technology?
by Ylva Hard af Segerstad 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all! Does anyone know of any research/papers on "the dark side" of mobile technology? /Ylva H ---------------------------------------------- Ylva Hard af Segerstad, Ph.D. Dept. of Linguistics Goteborg University Box 200 SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden Email: ylva(a)ling.gu.se Phone: +46 31 773 4532 URL: http://www.ling.gu.se/~ylva/ ----------------------------------------------

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[Air-I] Research: Weblogs and Support
by Chana Hermans 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Dear all on Air-L I am a Belgian master student following a New Media course: Communications & Multimedia Design. As part of my graduation process I am required to write a research paper on a subject of our choosing. I personally am intrigued by weblogs and decided to work around blogs and research some aspects of their use. To accomplish this I am looking for active webloggers who like myself are about to graduate from college, university or those who have recently graduated. Any help or advice would be most appreciated. You can find my own weblog /Tempus Fugit.../on http://afstuderen.blogspirit.com/. (In Dutch) Regards, Chana Hermans Student C-MD

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*Call for Art Works, Statements: Art, Culture and Technology*
by Fatima Lasay 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Dear friends on AIR-L, We have another call below, related to the earlier call for the Women in Action magazine. Please feel free to share with your networks! Thanks and regards, Fatima === Apologies for cross-posting. This is an additional call for artworks to accompany the call for papers announced last week. If you did not receive the call for papers and are interested to learn more or contribute an article on the theme CULTURAL DIVERSITY, please drop me a line at libay at isiswomen dot org. For other inquiries, please feel free to email me. Thank you. Regards, Libay Linsangan Cantor Media Info-Comm Campaigns Associate ("we!" news/ WIA CD issue co-ordinator) Isis International Manila http://www.isiswomen.org <http://www.isiswomen.org/> <libay(a)isiswomen.org> *Call for Art Works, Statements: Art, Culture and Technology* Women in Action (WIA) NO. 1-2005 Women in Action, a magazine published by Isis International-Manila, covers a broad range of issues affecting women globally, with focus on the particular needs and concerns of women in the Global South as well as the problems of under-represented social groups in the Global North. For its next issue (1, 2005), Women in Action will feature the theme "Cultural Diversity." As special feature of this issue of WIA, we are inviting submissions of statements by women artists involved in but not limited to: computer art, net art, software art, media art, installation, interactive and sound art. We especially invite submissions that deal with the issues and debates surrounding globalization, differences and conflict, commodification of culture, migration and diaspora. Please send the following information to libay(a)isiswomen.org - Artist's Name: Email: Artist's Statement: Title of Work: Description of Work: URL of Work: Short biography (within 200 words): Deadline for submissions is 04 April 2005. Isis International-Manila 3 Marunong St., Barangay Central, Quezon City, Philippines 1100 Tel: +632 928-1956 Fax: +632 924-1065 Website: http://www.isiswomen.org/

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Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check- correct version.
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

The e-mail I sent out earlier seems to have acquired some additional formatting on the way (thanks to my mailer). I have, therefore, posted it on my blog. Please see- http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-word-spel ling-and-grammar.html or http://tinyurl.com/4payv Sorry! Let me know what you think. Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com

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