FYI: Last year's "Mobilize!" conf looked quite intriguing. But I'm just the messenger. If interested in the CFP, please reply to the address below.

The Digital World Research Centre

ANNOUNCES

THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE: THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF MOBILE FUTURES

17th-18th July 2002

Digital World Research Centre University of Surrey Guildford United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Location! Location! Location!

The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines and sectors interested in the relationship between location and mobile technologies.

Location is one of the driving topics within the mobile industry, but it can mean very different things. It can imply services and applications, but it can also have implications for the form factors of future location-sensitive mobile technologies. There are also public and private locations with appropriate codes of behaviour in each. Mobile devices may impact these codes, and may ultimately introduce changes in cultural practices. On a larger scale, mobile technologies may impact geography, and the way we inhabit and perceive urban and non-urban spaces.

Little research has been reported that does more than make conjectures about what location-based services and form factors might be, or which points toward the changes in cultural practices that the alteration of public and private space might be creating. It is in this context that this conference will bring together leading academic and commercial researchers to report on the latest empirical and conceptual research in the general area of location. The conference will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, HCI-CHI, CSCW, design, urban studies, media studies, and geography. This conference may also be of interest to those who work in organisations that provide location-based services, and those that provide the hardware and networks for such services.

A selection of the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.

Themes of interest include:

- Working and Domestic Life - Space, Time and Mobility - Public and Private Spaces & Behaviour - Usability - Design and Form Factors of Mobile Technologies - Modalities of Communication and Interaction - Consumption, Media and Culture - Cross-Cultural Studies - Comparative Technologies - Organisation and Industry

Call for Papers

Deadline for submission of papers is 25th April. Notification of acceptance will be sent in 10th May. Final versions of paper will be due 14th June. A selection of papers will be submitted for publication as a book in September.

A restricted-access website and a Bulletin Board will be established on the DWRC website for announcements, timetable updates, and discussion.

Important Dates

Papers 25th April 2002 Deadline for Conference Paper Submission 10th May 2002 Notification of Acceptance 14th June Final versions 7th July Proceedings posted on DWRC Website

Registration 31st May Registration deadline

Contacts Prof. Richard Harper and/or Dr Amparo Lasen Digital World Research Centre University of Surrey Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom

Telephone: (+44) (0) 1483 689446 Fax: (+44) (0) 1483 689550 email: r.harper@surrey.ac.uk a.lasen@surrey.ac.uk dwrc@surrey.ac.uk Website: www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/wireless3.html