[rohrpost] Intelligent Environments 08 conference

[Aram Bartholl]

[kann sein, dass das hier schon über den aether gegangen ist ... via 
Ralf Hennig]

Dear all,

I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers of the 4th IET
International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 08), which will be
held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA from July 21 to July
22, 2008. As the fourth in a successful series, this conference will provide
a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers from across the world to
present their latest research and to discuss future directions in the area
of Intelligent Environments.

See: 
http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/cfp.htm
for more info

The conference aims at contributing to the realization of the Ambient
Intelligence vision, where physical space becomes augmented with
computation, communication and digital content, thus transcending the limits
of direct human perception.

Types of Intelligent Environments range from private to public and from
fixed to mobile; some are ephemeral while others are permanent; some change
type during their life span. The realisation of Intelligent Environments
requires the convergence of different prominent disciplines: Information and
Computer Science, Architecture, Material Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence, Sociology and Design. In addition, technical breakthroughs are
required in key enabling technology fields, such as, microelectronics (e.g.,
miniaturisation, power consumption), communication and networking
technologies (e.g., broadband and wireless networks), smart materials (e.g.,
bio-implants) and intelligent agents (e.g., context awareness and
ontologies).

The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of research and
applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as
industrialists contributing to the area on Intelligent Environments.

The conference is supported by The Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI), the IEEE and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. The
conference proceedings will be published by The IET.

In this conference, I chair a special session on "Social and Psychological
Dimensions of Designing and Experiencing Intelligent Environments in the
Urban Context". This session will also take into account other types
mediated environments supported by locative media. Therefore, I would like
to urge you to send your work as submission if you are interested. If so,
please send a copy of your paper to myself as well as to the proper on-line
conference submission process.

Below I attach a text that explains a bit more about this session

Potential authors should note the following deadline dates:

Paper Submission 15th February 2008 Notification of Acceptance 17 March 2008
Submission of Final Papers Thursday, 17 April 2008

Looking forward to your submissions and attendance

Best wishes

Dimitris Charitos



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Dr. Dimitrios Charitos
Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens
e-mail: vedesign at otenet.gr
URL: www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos




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Special Session on Social and Psychological Dimensions of Designing and
Experiencing Intelligent Environments in the Urban Context

Special session organizers:
Dr. Dimitris Charitos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece

Everyday urban environments can be seen as complex spatial systems, which
function as contexts for supporting communication. In the beginning of the
21st century, these environments are radically being re-ordered by
technological systems and networks. These environments may also incorporate
systems, which capture visual, auditory and other types of information
regarding human activity and consequently utilize this input to affect the
process of generating digital representations. Very recent advances in
mobile, wireless, pervasive and ubiquitous computing technologies have begun
to transform the potential for social interaction taking place within urban
public space. We can therefore put forward the hypothesis that the
incorporation of ICT systems results in an electronic enhancement of our
everyday urban environment since our communication with these environments
and with other individuals who exist and act within them is mediated by
these systems. 

The most advanced form of these mediated spaces incorporate intelligence
thus affording a novel type of mediation. These intelligent environments
could be regarded as spatial interfaces that expand in physical space and
integrate with it, thus affording a hybrid (physical and mediated) spatial
experience, in the context of which a novel form of social interaction may
occur. Thus, the experience of interacting with/within an intelligent
environment may affect the way that users perceive the relation between the
physical world and the technologically mediated environment and consequently
the way that they experience and conceive of urban public space and everyday
life within it. 
The significance of these changes for social life in a 21st century city is
the main motivation for proposing this special session. The focus of the
session is on investigating the emergence of intelligent environments and
the impact that the implementation and use of such systems has on their
users, from a social and psychological perspective and ultimately on
mediated communication taking place within the context of these spaces.
Particular emphasis is given to investigating the manner in which the urban
spatial context, where situated communication occurs, is transformed by the
introduction of these technologies. Indeed, when we refer to multi-user
intelligent environment systems, these could be seen as communication
environments, which function as systems supporting interpersonal
computer-mediated communication; within the context of these environments,
communication amongst locally or remotely located, networked individuals is
mediated. 
Intelligent environments are systems of situated, context-aware
communication.

They bring human-computer communication and human-computer-human
communication back into the context of our physical world, instead of
expecting humans to adapt to the needs of a computer environment. In order
to understand the social ramifications of these mediated spaces, it is
important to: 


investigate the impact that the kind of interpersonal communication they
support has on our everyday experience within the urban context; propose
conceptual models for understanding the use and impact of such systems;
study the use and impact of these systems from a user perspective, regarding
either the personal or the interpersonal aspect of this use. 
The proposed special session welcomes contributions that will spark
discussions on the personal and social implications and effects of using
urban intelligent systems, which may consequently be useful for informing
the design of such interactive environmental experiences. 

Instructions for Manuscripts

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript following
the submission guideline available at
http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/author.htm. All manuscripts should be
submitted through the conference submission system and choosing the workshop
title. The papers should also be emailed to the workshop organizer for
reference. All manuscripts should be received by the conference deadline for
paper submission which is the 15 February 2008. 

For more information please contact: Dr. Dimitris Charitos,
vedesign at otenet.gr, UOA, Greece



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