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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 25 February 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ICT, SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEINGS 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008
(http://www.ict-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems
(MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers
Professor Margaret Tan, Deputy Director, Singapore Internet Research
Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Simone Fischer Hübner, Karlstad university, Sweden

* Conference background and goals
The effects of ICT on humans comes in focus in the conference but also
the interaction
between ICT - Individual - Society. Interaction and Effects - both are
important.
Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and
psychological
aspects, feelings are all of interest. Computer Science and IT related
disciplines work
more and more together with various behavioural sciences: Cognitive
effects and changes,
Motivational and emotional changes, Organisational and institutional
changes, Societal
changes, Value changes and new lifestyles, experiences from Child
psychology and
Development psychology.
In general all types of research strategies are encouraged and
especially cross
disciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. Case studies, broader
empirical field studies,
theoretical analyses, cross cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic
studies,
epistemological analyses.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book
and CD-ROM
with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library
(accessible
on-line). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information
Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels
and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.

* Topics related to ICT, Society and Human Beings: are of interest.
These include, but are not limited
to the following areas and topics:

- Globalization and ICT (Main area)
- Globalization processes
- Glocalization processes
- Values, norms
- Labour market (outsourcing,integration, mobility)
- Universal access
- Virtual worlds
- Global villages
- Rethinking economical and social theories
- Human capital theory
- Sustainability, Democracy
- Global catastrophes
- Vulnerability

- Life role and ICT (Main area)
- Citizen's role
- Professional role
- Leadership role
- Private role
- Virtual roles
- Home of the future
- Mobile life
- Role conflicts

- Desirable goals (Main area)
- Integration
- Humanization
- Reducing poverty
- Bridging the digital gap
- Freedom of expression
- Democratization
- E-cooperation
- Peace
- Sustainability
- Wellbeing Health
- Human welfare
- Quality of life

- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (Main area)
- ICT applications and systems contributing to desirable goals (see
track below)

- Life environment and ICT (Main area)
- Psychosocial environment
- Work environment/Work place:
- Work content - Work tasks
- Organizational structure
- Decision support systems
- Human-human communication
- Power structure-formal and informal
- Leadership
- Career patterns
- Influence/participation
- Working hours and salary/compensation
- Work pace/work load Physical and ergonomic conditions
- Learning and knowledge growth
- Home Environment
- Public Environment
- Private Environment
- Virtual Environment
- Virtual (on-line) communities
- Organisational Design and Management
- Psychosocial work environment

- Effects on humans (Main area)
- Analyses of impact as well as technology contributing to desirable
human qualities
- Psychosocial impact
- Life styles
- Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging, autonomy, confidence)
- Happiness and fun
- Wellbeing and health
- Dependency
- Identity
- Integrity
- Trust - security - privacy
- Addictiveness (games)
- Availability
- Motivation
- Human memory
- Cybersickness
- Stress (over- and understimulation)
- Workload
- Fatigue
- Love and Relationship
- Skills and competencies:
- Creativity
- Problem solving
- Social competence

- Perspectives (Main area)
- Social and psychosocial
- Cross-cultural
- Theoretical
- Gender
- Class
- Rural - urban
- Multimodal
- Economic
- Ethical

- Actions for reaching the Good Information Society (Main area)
- Individual level
- Communities ( physical and virtual) level
- Governmental level
- International level
- Civil society and social change communities
- Design of societal systems - rethinking

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008
- Notification to Authors: Until 31 March 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 April
2008
- Late Registration: After 21 April 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ICT, SOCIETY AND
HUMAN BEINGS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@ict-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/

* Program Committee
ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008 Conference Program Chair:
Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.ict-conf.org/committees.asp
 
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