Call for Papers

Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back

American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference Long Beach, CA Oct. 20-23, 2003  (click here for important due dates)

Papers, posters and presentations are solicited in a wide variety of information and technology related areas, including:

• Information management, organization and access, including classification and representation, metadata, taxonomies, indexing, XML, information architecture, digital libraries.

• Information seeking and use, including research on the role of information in daily lives and in work and the professions, use of various types of information technology, social contexts of information seeking.

• Information retrieval: information system performance, search engines, natural language processing, data mining, intelligent retrieval, multi- and cross-lingual retrieval.

• Interactivity: user and usability studies, design of human-computer interfaces, visualization, for all types of information technology.

• Ethical, social, political, legal and economic issues related to the role of information in society, such as privacy, copyright, information policy, as well as the social role of information technologies such as the Internet and the World Wide Web.

• Information production, transfer, and delivery, electronic publishing and dissemination.

• Technologies for computing and networking: information communication, collaboration, information security, e-commerce.

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