UCD Project News Edition 34, November 29, 2004
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In this issue:
1. Supriya: Connecting on the Conference Circuit
2. Rob Cox Publishes New Paper
3. Upcoming Conferences & Calls for Papers
4. Useful Links & References
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1. Supriya: Meeting people from the UCD community
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These last few days have been conference time. First, there was
the OZCHI conference in Wollongong, and then the first QualIT conference
organised by our team at Griffith University in Brisbane. Going
to conferences in some ways is the icing on the cake. The work on
the papers has been done months before, and now is the time to exchange
views and connect up with people in the field. The conferences were
successful on both counts.
The UCD team was prominent at OZCHI with people coming from RMIT,
Tasmania and Griffith. In Brisbane, there was the feeling of being
on the home front as Jenine Beekhuyzen and Liisa von Hellens were
at the forefront of the international conference. Congratulations
on bringing people together from diverse disciplines but with a
particular Information Systems flavour.
Supriya
Assoc Prof Supriya Singh,
Project Leader
supriya.singh@rmit.edu.au
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2. Rob Cox Publishes New Paper
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Rob Cox was invited to present the following paper at the International
Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS)
ES2004 conference in July of this year. Although Rob wasn’t
able to attend, the paper has been included in the conference proceedings,
details of which are available on the conference website: http://www.iadis.org/es2004.
Cox, R., Newell, C. and Turner, P. You, Me and the Otherness: Social
Considerations in Technology Mediated Interactions. International
Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS)
ES2004, 16-19 July, Avila, Spain.
Communication is a social act that has functions and purposes beyond
the exchange of any content. Technologically mediated communications
(TMC’s) restrict elements of the communication act that contribute
to the ‘social dimension’ of human-to-human communication.
In the context of an increasing reliance on TMC’s, we have
seen the emergence of a particular set of social structures and
beliefs which impact on human-to-human communication. Therefore,
if we examine these influences, we are in a position to make judgments
about the ways in which technology parameters constrain ‘social
communication’, both within the ‘ways’ of the
device and beyond in society, through the creation of communication
‘norms’. This would, subsequently, require the need
for alternative designs to be found for the development of TMC’s.
To view the paper in full, please visit: http://www.ucd.smartinternet.com.au/Docs/IADIS%202004%20Cox,%20Newell,%20Turner.pdf
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3. Upcoming Conferences & Calls for Papers
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* ATNAC 2004
The Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference
(ATNAC) will be held 8 10th December 2004, Swiss Grand Spa and Resort
Bondi Beach, Sydney Australia. It will being together telecommunications
and research and development staff from universities and industrial
research laboratories from around the country.
Sessions will include the latest research on network architectures,
security, wireless, peer to peer networks, traffic modeling and
more. ATNAC 2004 will also feature the First Australian Workshop
on Network Support for Interactive Multimedia and Games (NSIM'04).
For further information, please visit: http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/atnac/index.html
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* IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2005
The IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities will
be held February 23-25, 2005 in Algarve, Portugal. The mission of
this conference is to publish and integrate research results and
act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities.
The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical
reports and case studies on the World Wide Web and emergence of
Web based communities. The deadline for abstract submissions is
6 December 2004.
For further information, please visit: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2005.
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4. Useful Links and References
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* The Journal of Community Informatics (2004), 1(1)
The Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) is pleased to announce
the online availability of its Inaugural Issue. JoCI is a peer-reviewed
Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community
Informatics research community and produced under the auspices of
the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) (http://www.ciresearch.net/).
This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members
of the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through
position papers, scholarly papers and other materials.
1) Brian Beaton, The K-Net Story: Community ICT Development Work
2) Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Robert Luke,
Marita Moll, Leslie Reagan Shade and Diane DeChief, The Canadian
Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN):
A Research Partnership and Agenda for Community Networking in Canada
3) Geoff Erwin and Wallace Taylor, Social Appropriation of Internet
Technology: a South African platform
4) Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Anuradha Ramachandran and Alankar Bandyopadhyay,
n-Logue: The Story of a Rural Service Provider In India
5) Michel J. Menou, Karin Delgadillo Poepsel and Klaus Stoll, Latin
American Community Telecenters: "It’s a long way to TICperary"
6) Kenneth E. Pigg and Laura Duffy Crank, Building Community Social
Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications
Technologies
7) Scott S. Robinson, Towards a Neo-Apartheid System of Governance
in Latin America –Implications for the Community Informatics
Guild
8) Tony Salvador and John Sherry, Local Learnings: An Essay on Designing
to Facilitate Effective Use of ICTs
9) Sergei Stafeev, Role of Community Informatics in Socio-Cultural
Transformations in Russia and the CIS
10) Susan Webb and Kate Jones, Women Connect: Phase 2 Report
http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php
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* Interacting with Computers, Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages 851-1016
(October 2004), Physiological Computing, Edited by W. Burleson
1) Winslow Burleson, The emergence of physiological computing, pp851-855
2) Jennifer Allanson and Stephen H. Fairclough, A research agenda
for physiological computing, pp857-878
3) Robert Ward, An analysis of facial movement tracking in ordinary
human–computer interaction, pp879-896
4) Ernest Edmonds, Dave Everitt, Michael Macaulay and Greg Turner,
On physiological computing with an application in interactive art,
pp897-915
5) Astro Teller, A platform for wearable physiological computing
pp917-937
6) H. Sayers, Desktop virtual environments: a study of navigation
and age, pp939-956
7) Pär J Ågerfalk, Investigating actability dimensions:
a language/action perspective on criteria for information systems
evaluation, pp957-988
8) Zhiying Zhou, Adrian David Cheok, Xubo Yang and Yan Qiu, An experimental
study on the role of software synthesized 3D sound in augmented
reality environments, pp989-1016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5644-2004-999839994-528351
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* Devjani Sen (2004) Voice and Text: An Exploration of Modality
Effects in Computer-Aided Instruction, HOT Topics! 3(9) November.
This article describes the work the author conducted for her Master's
thesis on the effects of voice narration on learning retention.
Her work builds on Paivio's dual-coding theory, which posits that
information presented in multimodal formats lead to higher learning
retention. Devjani explores this theme through her examination of
the effects of voice narration on the retention of textual information.
The study also examines how individual differences in learners which
are believed to facilitate processing of auditory information, may
impact use of narration and learning retention, in narrated conditions.
Qualitative findings suggest possible reasons why narrating printed
material may not be as beneficial to the learning process as has
been commonly believed.
http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/hottopics/Articles/VoiceandText.html
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