CFP: Journal papers - Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities
**Please note revised submission dates** Deadline for submission of papers: July 1, 2004. CFP: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities Special Issue for Universal Access in the Information Society Journal http://www.springeronline.com/east/journal/10209/ Aims and scope of this special issue ------------------------------------ A significant increase of the older population has led to various studies investigating the effect of age in utilizing the Web as an information resource. A report by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2001 stated that the estimated change in the total size of the world's elderly population between July 1999 and July 2000 was more than 9.5 million people, growing at an average of 795,000 people each month. This trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Recent research shows that older adults are beginning to incorporate Web use in their daily activities, mainly because the Web presents an opportunity for them to maintain a high quality of life. As a consequence, a variety of new opportunities and challenges related to the use of the Web by older adults arise in a Universal Access perspective. The main objective of this special issue is to bring together work by researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines who are interested in the interrelationships among web access, web usability and ageing. Contributions on novel methodologies, theories, products and design guidelines that address these issues, as well as on related case studies, are solicited. Main topics ----------- Authors of submissions should carefully explain how the work and results presented contribute to facilitating and promoting universal access. Contributions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics: · Information architecture and the older user. · Ageing-related disabilities and accessible design of web technology. · Empirical studies on web usability and older users. · Analytical studies & computational modeling of the older web user. · Social aspects of web and aging, including the effects of web use on personal well-being, as well as social determinants of successful web use (e.g. educational attainment, socio-economic status, etc.) · Emerging applications and interaction techniques with high relevance for older web users (e.g., WAP) · Social policy implications of web access for older users, especially including issues of public access to computing facilities, access to government services, and social/civic engagement. · Web-based learning and training for the elderly. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submission of papers: July 1, 2004. Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2004. Deadline for submission of camera-ready version of accepted papers: November 1, 2004. Expected publication date of the special issue: second half of 2004 or early 2005. Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically as PDF files to one of the Guest Editors of the special issue: Panayiotis Zaphiris (e-mail: zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk). Sri Kurniawan (e-mail: s.kurniawan@umist.ac.uk) R. Darin Ellis (e-mail: rdellis@wayne.edu) The call for papers and any updates about this special issue can be found at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/UAIS-Aging/ Manuscript preparation ---------------------- Please, refer to the "Instructions to authors" section on the Website of the UAIS Journal. Reviewing process ----------------- All papers will be peer reviewed by three reviewers, experts in the field, appointed by the Guest Editors of the issue in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Copyright information --------------------- Submission of an article implies that: - the work described has not been published before, except in form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis; - it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. For further information, please, refer to the "Copyright information" section on the Website of the UAIS Journal. -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Lecturer Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design School of Informatics City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri Also check my HCI blog: http://www.zaphiris.org/Resources/
General Program Announcement Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June 25-28, 2004
I'm wondering how many AOIR'ers will be at this, and if so, is anyone interested in getting together? I always welcome the opportunity to meet and spend time with AOIR folks! Holly ----- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu
Dear all, City University's School of Informatics is offering 11 full-time 3-year PhD studentships to support ongoing research on specific topics to start in October 2004 and October 2005. One of the topics is: Virtual Ethnography of Computer Mediated Communication The study of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) synthesises skills from a multitude of disciplines (e.g. ethnography, sociology, computing). Virtual ethnography (the study of online communication through the use of ethnographic techniques) has received a lot of attention and when combined with analytic techniques (e.g. social network analysis) can be a valuable synthesis of methodologies for evaluating and analysing online communities. PhD studentships are available to continue this research, especially in investigating the use of Social Network Analysis for analysing online communities. Supervisors include Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris. Candidates are expected to have at least a 2.1 Honours Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. Conditional awards can be made if students have yet to receive their final degree classification. Each successful applicant will receive a bursary of £14,000 per annum for each year of the studentship. Studentships will start on the 1st October 2004 and, depending on availability, 1st October 2005. You can find more about this at: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/news/researchstudentship.html -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8859 zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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