From: KRESTEN@vax.psl.ku.dk
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 15:40 MET
Subject: conference announcement
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C A L L     F O R      P A P E R S
 
       HOME-ORIENTED INFORMATICS, TELEMATICS & AUTOMATION
                                 Reconstituting Oikos
                A cross-disciplinary international conference
 
                    organized by IFIP Working Group 9.3
             (HOIT:Home Oriented Informatics &Telematics)
        in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen
 
                  University of Copenhagen, Denmark
                                     June 27 - July 1, 1994
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                                       BACKGROUND
The home offers a great potential for new automation, information and
communication technologies and related services. A wide array of
innovations are already under way, with many more to come. They
will transform the home and everyday life in the emerging information
society. They will condition how private households will be enabled to
function in changing social, economic and political structures.
 
                                     AIMS AND SCOPE
 
The conference will assess and conceptualize perspectives and options,
which attach to  developments of domestic informatics, telematics and
automation across the levels of
    - consumer hard- and software,
    - network infrastructures
    - storage & distribution media,
    - teleservices and
    - socio-cultural & economic structures.
 
How can these new technologies - seen together -  be used to empower
consumers and private households?
 
How can both users and suppliers get the optimal benefits from the
possible new technologies? - and with which global impact?
 
Can these technologies contribute to the emergence of a new home
concept, an "Oikos", where the private household can reestablish itself
in an experienced way as a living and production centre, embedded  in
and interacting with a larger community?
 
Addressing such questions requires a multi-disciplinary approach.
Therefore the conference aims to bring together experts from many
fields and disciplines. Researchers and practitioners, designers and
users, policy makers and industrialists, each with  new knowledge and
new questions from their experience of recent and expected
development.
The conference will not only serve as a forum to present and
exchange experience, results of research and ideas, but also to explore
and discuss strategic approaches and alliances for product research
and development, and for prototyping and field experiments.
 
                                   MAJOR THEMES
 
* The social construction of new domestic technologies.
 
* Bridging between the various disciplinary approaches.
 
* The changing position and importance of households in the new
social and economic structure of the information and communication
society.
 
* Strategies for creating professional and public awareness of the
converging potentials and implications of constructive innovations for
everyday life and for social, cultural, educational, health, energy, and
economic policies.
 
* Ways of organizing relations between research and product
development which can  further the long-term interest of consumers,
and save producers from waste of investments in development of
products and services which are doomed to failure.
 
* Relevance for developing countries , cultural diversities and the
general goals of the UN year of the family  1994.
 
                                 MAIN AREAS
 
            # Advanced Home Technologies #
(e.g. Intelligent home - Linking of TV, telephone, computer and VCR
- Interactive multimedia and domestic virtual reality - Security-
systems - Household appliances - Environmental control and ecology -
Bio-electronics and health-monitoring.)
 
    # Communication and Telematics #
(e.g. Convergence of broadcast and telecom networks - Interactive
teleservices and teletransactions - Teleeducation - Telework -
Evolving informal networks - Home-to-Home interfacing.)
 
    # Economics and Politics of HOIT #
(e.g. Interests of industry and service providers - Links between R&D
and marketing - Prices and tarifs  - Legal and regulatory policies on
national and  international  level - The future of home economics.)
 
    # Cultural and social impact on everyday life #
(e.g. Personal development and knowledge distribution -
Intra- and interfamily relations - Functions for children, elderly,
disabled and home-bound people - Community structure -  Cultural
continuity.)
 
                                   CONTRIBUTIONS
We solicit
* Research papers
* Papers on experiments and case studies
* Policy and strategy papers
* Opinion and position papers
which will address State of the Art, Prospects, Blueprints  or
Implementation  within  these general areas. Besides full papers, short
contributions like posters and statements papers may be submitted.
 
                          SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
 
Two page abstracts of full papers are due  December 1, 1993.
This deadline  has been extended to January 15, 1994, but please submit as early as possible
Notification of acceptance March 1, 1994.
Deadline for submission of full papers and short contributions May 1,
1994.
 
Potential authors are invited to give notice of the intention to submit a
paper (including title and short indication of contents) preferable
before October 15, 1993. Early notification may give some priority,
if too many papers are received.
All accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings
available at the conference.
Selected papers will also be published after the conference in
hardcover or - if possible - paperback edition .
 
                                      PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
Felix van Rijn (Chair), Univ. of Amsterdam, Dept. of Communications (NL)
Kresten Bjerg, University of Copenhagen, Psychological Laboratory (DK)
Gunilla Bradley, Stockholm University, Institute of Internatl. Education (S)
Valerie Frissen, Univ. of Amsterdam, Dept. of Communications (NL)
Karamjit Gill, Seake Centre, University of Brighton  (GB)
Leslie Haddon, University of Sussex (GB)
Robert Jacobson, Univ. of Washington, Hum. Interface Techn. Lab. (USA)
Gisela Lehmer, Ministry of Finance, Bonn (D)
Mara Gabrila Macra, IDAT, Montpellier (Fr)
Kurt Monse, IWT, Universit
t Wuppertal (D)
Bj?rn Nake, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Toomas Niit, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Tallin (Estonia)
Gerrit Noltes, Ministerie van WVC (NL)
Yves Punie,  Free University of Brussels (B)
Andy Sloane, School of Comp. & Inf. Techn. Univ. of Wolwerhampton (GB)
Luis A. de Garrido Talavera, Dept. de Leng. y Syst. Informat, Barcelona (E)
Alladi Venkatesh, Grad. School of Management, Univ. of Calif. Irvine (USA)
L.E. Zegers, European Home Systems Association, Eindhoven (NL)
 
                                     ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kresten Bjerg (DK), Bj?rn Nake (DK), Dan Melkane (DK), Poul Gr?nh?j(DK)
 
                               OPTIONAL REPLY  FORMAT
Please e-mail, fax or photocopy and mail to:
 
HOIT-94, Kresten Bjerg, Psychological Laboratory,
University of Copenhagen, 88, Njalsgade, DK 2300  Copenhagen S.
Tel.:+45 31541856  Fax: +45 32963138  E-mail: kresten@vax.psl.ku.dk
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