CFP: ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 12 May 2008
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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 (last call): 12 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 30 May 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 13 June 2008
- Late Registration: After 13 June 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

Marissa Mayer at Google Press Day Paris

better late than never :)

Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience, gives an A-Z of search explaining how Google is working to ensure all its users get access to fast, relevant results, at Google Press Day in Paris on June 19, 2007.

14 Website Usability Guidelines from ISEDB

Sites that are designed to sell products and/or services must go the extra mile to enhance the visitor's engagement with the website. Shopping cart abandonment (shoppers abandoning their carts before deciding to pay for the "items" they've added to their cart) can result in a significant loss in potential sales. But much of that can be reduced when the shopping process is streamlined and geared for shopper satisfaction. more...

Donald A. Norman, 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Don Norman is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including the seminal The Design of Everyday Things, and his recently released The Design of Future Things.


Dr. Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services, Professor at Northwestern University, Prof. Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, and co-director of Northwestern’s Segal Design Institute; founded by Crate & Barrel creators Gordon and Carole Segal. He has been Vice President of Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett Packard. He was President of the Learning Systems division of UNext, an early, online education company.

He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago’s Institute of Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a fellow of many organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction, the Mental Health award for contributions to Business from Psychology Today, and the Taylor Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

Blog on photoshop express

Adobe has launched the online version of photoshop express for free. There is no download required for photoshop express unless if you have lower version of flash player. Flash 9 works fine with express. At present this version of online photoshop express won't replace the photoshop application. In future, adobe might move the features one by one.

Our experience: In the high speed connection, uploading of photos took time. Otherwise they have cool features in online photoshop express.

Do a test drive: https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?bypass&wf=testdrive

FAQ: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=74&catid=684&threadid=1344716&enterthread=y

Learn features available in online Photoshop Express: To learn these techniques, visit http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/

• Crop & Rotate—Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
• Auto Correct—Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
• Exposure—Change the brightness of the photo.
• Red-Eye Removal—Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
• Touchup—Remove scratches and other imperfections.
• Saturation—Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
• White Balance—Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
• Highlight—The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
• Fill Light—If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
• Sharpen—It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
• Soft Focus—It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
• Hue—This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
• Black & White—Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
• Tint—Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
• Sketch—Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
• Distort—Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

Pattern Library for Interaction Design

While creating a complicated form or multi-step Indicators or want to know different type of form validation or visual framework, its always interesting when we look at the pattern libraries used. Below are the list of website which has some nice collection of interaction patterns. For each pattern - get the answer on what?, when to use it?, why and how?

• Designing Interfaces - http://designinginterfaces.com/

• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library - http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php

• Welie - http://www.welie.com

• UI Patterns - http://ui-patterns.com/

• Interaction Design Pattern Library for Games - http://www.helpyouplay.com/

• Mobile User Interface Design Patterns http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/~newlsdpatterns/index.php/Main_Page
  This site is a wiki, with few patterns for handheld devices
  

• Web Patterns - A UC Berkeley Resources for Building User Interfaces
  http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/ui_designpatterns/webpatterns2/webpatterns/home.php

Show-Hide Sections

Expand All modules & Collapse all modules: These interactions are useful while we have more widget based sections in a single page.

Complext Data-table design

In this table structure, data is stacked. Even without grid structure design, data is not clustered. By having first look, the data looks confusing. With in seconds its very simple in mapping with the label and the data. Look at the screenshot below, mapping is done a nicer way. Label "Quantity" is bold, even the quantity in numbers is maintained bold. High & Low attributes under the label "Intra day" is stacked and this is also very easy while reading. This screenshot is from one of the stock exchange website. This forms look simple to design, but its not.

Sorting Data in a table

This screenshot is from batch mates. Its a nice way of showing the sorting and alphabetical listing. These types of interactions will be useful in New Yahoo mail, where all the contents are shown in a single page without pagination.

Avoid RadioButtons - New interaction in Digg Submit page.

Digg has come up with the new interactions on submit link page. In the previous design, the radio button were used to choose a topic.

In the latest version, radio button has replaced with Text Highlighter. It is good, but has bug.



Behaviours:

1. User can click directly on topics.


2. Even in previous version of topic selection, user can click on topics. HTML has option of linking Radio button and topic next to it by providing "label for" attribute. By which instead of clicking over radio button, user can click on topic to select the option. Mostly advance user know about it. With my experience I can say that 80% click only on radio button even by providing "label for". By having this label for and ID activated in HTML, we can say that radio button is accessbility fixed. For example, check the submit page(below screenshot) in digg, you can click on image to choose the media.
   
   
   


3. On mouse over the row highlights with blue background with a border top and bottom. This is controlled via css. But surprisingly in Internet explorer, this widget looks plane, you can see that in 2nd screenshot.


4. On click of the category, the color of the cateogory changes blue. In Internet explorer, topic turns to Bold and you have click one more time ouside the widget to get the background color for the topics.


5. Text highlighter is nice and easy to use in this .


6. Text Highlighter is controlled via css & javascript. This interaction wont work, If javascript disabled in browsers setting.

Firefox - Text highlighter looks neat and color variances are also properly used.

Internet Explorer: In IE the page looks disturbed and above explained styles are disappeared. This is a bad coding from DIGG development team.