[Air-l] CFP: THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE

[Wendy Robinson]

FYI: Last year's "Mobilize!" conf looked quite intriguing.  But I'm just 
the messenger.  If interested in the CFP, please reply to the address below.

>The Digital World Research Centre
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>ANNOUNCES
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>THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE:
>THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF MOBILE FUTURES
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>17th-18th July 2002
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>Digital World Research Centre
>University of Surrey
>Guildford
>United Kingdom
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>
>Conference Theme:  Location!  Location!  Location!
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>The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines
>and sectors interested in the relationship between location and mobile
>technologies.
>
>Location is one of the driving topics within the mobile industry, but it can
>mean very different things.  It can imply services and applications, but it
>can also have implications for the form factors of future location-sensitive
>mobile technologies.  There are also public and private locations with
>appropriate codes of behaviour in each. Mobile devices may impact these
>codes, and may ultimately introduce changes in cultural practices. On a
>larger scale, mobile technologies may impact geography, and the way we
>inhabit and perceive urban and non-urban spaces.
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>Little research has been reported that does more than make conjectures about
>what location-based services and form factors might be, or which points
>toward the changes in cultural practices that the alteration of public and
>private space might be creating.  It is in this context that this conference
>will bring together leading academic and commercial researchers to report on
>the latest empirical and conceptual research in the general area of
>location.  The conference will be of interest to researchers in sociology,
>anthropology, psychology, HCI-CHI, CSCW, design, urban studies, media
>studies, and geography. This conference may also be of interest to those who
>work in organisations that provide location-based services, and those that
>provide the hardware and networks for such services.
>
>A selection of the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
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>Themes of interest include:
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>- Working and Domestic Life
>- Space, Time and Mobility
>- Public and Private Spaces & Behaviour
>- Usability
>- Design and Form Factors of Mobile Technologies
>- Modalities of Communication and Interaction
>- Consumption, Media and Culture
>- Cross-Cultural Studies
>- Comparative Technologies
>- Organisation and Industry
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>
>Call for Papers
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>Deadline for submission of papers is 25th April.  Notification of acceptance
>will be sent in 10th May.  Final versions of paper will be due 14th June. A
>selection of papers will be submitted for publication as a book in
>September.
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>A restricted-access website and a Bulletin Board will be established on the
>DWRC website for announcements, timetable updates, and discussion.
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>
>Important Dates
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>Papers
>25th April 2002         Deadline for Conference Paper Submission
>10th May 2002           Notification of Acceptance
>14th June               Final versions
>7th July                Proceedings posted on DWRC Website
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>Registration
>31st May            Registration deadline
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>Contacts
>Prof. Richard Harper and/or Dr Amparo Lasen
>Digital World Research Centre
>University of Surrey
>Guildford
>Surrey   GU2 7XH
>United Kingdom
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>Telephone:  (+44) (0) 1483 689446
>Fax:        (+44) (0) 1483 689550
>email:      r.harper at surrey.ac.uk
>             a.lasen at surrey.ac.uk
>             dwrc at surrey.ac.uk
>Website:    www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/wireless3.html