CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -- HOME-ORIENTED INFORMATICS, TELEMATICS & AUTOMATION

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

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               A cross-disciplinary international conference


           HOME-ORIENTED INFORMATICS, TELEMATICS & AUTOMATION
                From 'State of the Art' through 'Prospects'
                    and 'Blueprints' to 'Implementation'


                    organized by IFIP Working Group 9.3
              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 - Tele-education - 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


Notification of the intention to submit a full paper (including title and
subject area) should preferably be sent as early as possible.
Two page abstracts of full papers are due at latest January 15, 1993.
Notification of acceptance March 1, 1994.
Deadline for submission of final full papers and short contributions May
1, 1994.


All accepted contributions will be published in the preceedings
available at the conference.
Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.


                              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, Inst. 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)
Gisela Lehmer, Ministry of Telecommunications, Kln (D)
Mara Gabrila Macra, IDAT, Montpellier (Fr)
Kurt Monse, IWT, Universitaet Wuppertal (D)
Bjoern 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)
Alladi Venkatesh, Grad. Sch. of Management, Univ. of Calif., Irvine (USA)
L.E. Zegers, European Home Systems Association, Eindhoven (NL)


                            ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Kresten Bjerg (DK), Bjoern Nake (DK), Dan Melkane (DK), Poul
Groenhoej(DK)


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                                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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    taking max.      m2 floorspace.


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