Program & Final Call for Participation Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2009) Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA 24 June 2009 http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70107071616 If you would like to participate in this workshop (without submitting/ presenting a paper), some places are still available. Please let us know and register online at: https://www.regonline.com/cct2009 Program (draft) 09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 09.30 - 09.45 de Waal, Martijn (University of Groningen, NL): The Urban Ideals of Location Based Media 09.50 - 10.05 Fritsch, Jonas, & Brynskov, Martin (Aarhus University, DK): Between Engagement and Information: Experimental Urban Media in the Climate Change Debate 10.10 - 10.25 DiSalvo, Carl, & Lukens, Jonathan (Georgia Institute of Technology, US): Seeing the City Through Machines: Non-Anthropocentric Design and Youth Robotics 10.25 - 10.45 MORNING TEA 10.45 - 11.00 Forlano, Laura (Yale Law School, New Haven, US): TBA 11.05 - 11.20 McCarthy, Joe (Strands Labs Seattle, US): Ambient Informatics in Urban Cafés 11.25 - 11.40 Foth, Marcus (Queensland University of Technology, AU): Urban Futures: A Performance based Approach to Residential Design 11.45 - 12.00 Fuller, Gillian, & Harley, Ross (University of New South Wales, AU): Contactless Contact: Reconceptualising Radio and Architecture in the Wireless City 12.00 - 01.00 LUNCH 01.00 - 02.00 KEYNOTE: Carlo Ratti (SENSEable City Lab, MIT, US) 02.05 - 02.20 Ojala, Timo, & Kukka, Hannu (University of Oulu, FI): A Digital City Needs Open Pervasive Computing Infrastructure 02.25 - 02.40 Halegoua, Germaine (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US): The Export of Ubiquitous Place: Investigating South Korean U-cities 02.45 - 03.00 Wong, Andrew (Telenor Research and Innovation, MY): Mobile Interactions as Social Machines: Young Urban Poor at Play in Bangladesh 03.05 - 03.20 Kirwan, Christopher Mustafa, & Travis, Sven (Parsons The New School for Design, US): UAE Urban Identities: Bridging Past Cultural Legacies with Emerging Urban Landscapes 03.20 - 03.40 AFTERNOON TEA 03.40 - 05.00 PLENARY DISCUSSION: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth@qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano@yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Urban Informatics group on facebook: http://tinyurl.com/fbqutui -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/