Kate, Great news! When you get the talk titles can you circulate them so that AoIR-types can network and promote these events (I'm assuming they are open to the public?). Greg Elmer

I'm also really pleased to announce that keynote speakers Sara Kiesler and Nina Wakeford have accepted the invitation to speak at the conference.

Nina Wakeford is the Director of INCITE at the University of Surrey. Her past research has included ethnographic work in the UK and the USA on computing and internet culture, including studies of cybercafes, online discussion groups and new media start-up companies. As well as studies of=

technology she is interested in the sociology of sexuality, in particular=

the use of queer theory, and the potential intersections between such critical cultural theory, innovative ethnography and design practice. She=

has undertaken collaborative projects with companies including British Telecom, Fuji Xerox, Intel and Sapient. (Quoted from http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/incite/wireninawakefordbio.htm)

More info here: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/nina_wakeford.htm

Professor Sara Kiesler=B9s current projects include:

HomeNet: a study with PI, Bob Kraut, and others of the personal and social effects of household technology and the Internet on individuals and families. (http://homenet.hcii.cs.cmu.edu). This project has spun off=

to a related project : Participation in Online Communities. New webpage to come soon.

Multidisciplinary collaboration: Studies under an NSF KDI grant with my co-PIs Suzie Weisband and Pamela Hinds of distributed collaborations in science, business, and education. (http://www.multi-collab.org/ ). This project has spun off to other new projects: NSF ITR Large-scale collaboration; NSF DST Multiple Task Trajectories. New webpages to come soon.

The Project on People and Robots: an ITR in human-robot interaction and design with co-PIs Pamela Hinds, Jodi Forlizzi, and Sebastian Thrun. (http://www.peopleandrobots.org)

Quoted from: http://research.nursebot.cs.cmu.edu/Sara/index.html

Further keynote speakers still to be confirmed.

All the best

Dr. Kate O'Riordan Lecturer in Continuing Education (Media Studies)

Centre for Continuing Education Sussex Institute Essex House University of Sussex Falmer Brighton BN1 9QQ

Tel: 01273 877774 Email: k.s.o-riordan@sussex.ac.uk Web: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/qlff7

-- Greg Elmer Associate Professor Department of Communication Florida State University 356 Diffenbaugh Tallahassee, FL 32303 850.645.4692 (tel.) Co-Editor Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces http://www.carleton.ca/space/ ________________________________________________________________________________