[Air-l] ECSCW+C&T TWO GREAT CONFERENCES

[Quentin (Gad) Jones]

In response to the email I received asking about the details of ECSCW. 
I thought I should let people know that two conferences of interest to 
virtual community researchers and designers that are happening in 
September in Europe.  The dates were designed so that people can attend 
both conferences.

The first is:
8th European Conference of Computer-supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW)
14.-18. September 2003, Helsinki, Finland
http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/

CSCW is a multidisciplinary area of research devoted to the use of
computers to support cooperative work and a meeting area for research
coming from technology and human and social sciences. The community
encompasses interests in systems development and design, the theory
and practice of CSCW, the installation and use of CSCW systems, the
application of novel technologies, and the relation between the
social and the technical.

This conference has been run for a number of years and is the preeminent 
european conference in the area of CSCW, groupware, and other 
collaborative technologies. I suggest that those that are interested 
look at some of the papers from 1999 and 2001.
http://www.cti.dtu.dk/projects/cscw/ECSCW99.html
http://ecscw2001.gmd.de/Introduction.html

The second:
International Conference on Communities and Technologies
September 19 to 21, 2003 in the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www-winfo.uni-siegen.de/wulf/CT2003/

More and more, the relationship between communities and technology is a
topic of major research interest. ‘C&T’ conference serve as a forum for
stimulating and disseminating research into all facets of communities
supported by information technology.

This is a new conference with a great opening program.

Regards
Quentin