[Air-L] CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics

Marcus Foth m.foth at qut.edu.au
Mon Jan 19 16:17:39 PST 2009


Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics
Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and  
Technologies
Penn State, USA, 24 June 2009

April 16th, 2009	Workshop position papers due
May 18th, 2009	Author notifications sent
June 24th, 2009	Workshop

1	Theme

http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm


2	Topics

Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:

•	Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban planning
•	Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems
•	Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy  
approaches
•	u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless  
internet and mobile applications
•	Locative media, navigation and space
•	Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemologies
•	Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos,  
multimedia)
•	Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and planning
•	Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and  
city systems
•	Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing in the  
urban context
•	Environmental, economic and social sustainability
•	Citizen science
•	Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance
•	Implications for residential architecture and the design of cities  
and public spaces
•	Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urban  
informatics


3	Organisation and Submission Details

This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote address  
by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style paper  
presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview format and  
ask each participant to interview another contributing author. Pairs  
will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and engage with the  
paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group activities and a  
closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop can accommodate a  
maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants including presenters  
in order to provide an environment that is conducive to debate and  
interaction.
We are interested in three types of contributions:

Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual  
ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework.

Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban  
informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual ethnography,  
urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc.

Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in  
practice and experience.

Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4  
pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the  
C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each  
submission should also include a short biography stating the author’s  
background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop  
position papers are due on April 16th, 2009 and will be reviewed and  
selected by the organisers with the support from an international  
program committee. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2009  
– to leave enough time to qualify for the early bird conference  
registration. The acceptance of a workshop position paper implies that  
at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and  
the Communities & Technologies 2009 conference. The workshop takes  
place on June 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors  
are invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers  
will undergo double blind peer review before being published.  
Arrangements for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant  
international journal are currently underway.


4	Bibliography

Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume containing  
selected workshop papers and other invited contributions as follows:

Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on  
Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City.  
Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global.

Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008).  
Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City.  
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.).  
(2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital  
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany:  
Springer.

Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T.  
(Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological  
Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg,  
Germany: Springer.

Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital  
Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture  
Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.


5	Organisers

Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,  
Australia
m.foth at qut.edu.au

Laura Forlano
Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
laura.forlano at yale.edu

Hiromitsu Hattori
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto  
University, Japan
hatto at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp



--
Dr Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511
m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/








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