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Chair: Michael Shepherd
Dalhousie
University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3HIW5
Phone: (902) 494-3686
Fax: (902) 492-1517
shepherd@cs.dal.ca
Minitracks
Genres of Digital Documents (Barbara Kwasnik, Natalia Levina, and Dmitri Roussinov)
Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications (Ray R. Larson and Fredric C. Gey)
Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Digital Forms (Daniel Russell and Andreas Dieberger)
Persistent Conversation (Thomas Erickson and Susan Herring)
Semantic Web and Software Agents Technologies (Mark
Elmore and Thomas Potok)
Genres of Digital Documents
We invite
papers for a Minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents. Document genres
are communicative actions with a socially recognized communicative purpose
and/or common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). It is
becoming increasingly clear that the use of digital media brings with it the
emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication.
Suggested topics for the Minitrack include:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~droussi/hicss-06-cfp.htm
Barbara Kwasnik (Primary Contact)
4-206 CST
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Syracuse NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-2911
Fax: 315-443-5806
bkwasnik@syr.edu
Information Systems Group
Information, Operations, and Management Sciences Department
New York University Stern School of Business
Henry Kaufmann Management Center
44 W. 4th Street, KMEC 8-78
New York NY 10012
Tel: 212-998-0850
nlevina@stern.nyu.edu
Department of Information Systems
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Office: BA 267 E
P.O Box 873606
Tempe AZ, 85287
Phone: 480-965-8488
http://www.public.asu.edu/~droussi/
dmitri.roussinov@asu.edu
This minitrack will examine both theoretical and application issues related to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering, as well as the applications of these technologies in Digital Libraries. We build upon a series of successful minitracks on Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries from 2003-2005. Particularly welcome are papers that investigate IR methods applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and geographic information retrieval, as well as internal and distributed retrieval from digital libraries.
Topics would include, but not be limited to the following areas:
Minitrack Chairs:
Ray R. Larson (Primary Contact)
Associate Professor
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
Phone: (510) 642-6046
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/
Data Archivist and Assistant Director
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
University of California
2538 Channing Way, # 5100
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100
Phone: Campus: (510) 643-1298 (NEW PHONE 3/2000)
Fax: (510) 643-8292
gey@berkeley.edu (examined several times daily)
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/gey.html
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Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Digital Forms
This minitrack addresses issues
regarding the design, creation and use of media in many settings – the office
and classroom, at home, and informally. We are seeking high quality papers
across a broad spectrum of media design, interfaces to media content, creation,
media use and analysis.
Specific topics include but are not restricted to:
· Media literacy – writing in the large; reading across genres
· Changes in notions of literacy based on computational media
· Content analysis, video and document summarization
· Content authoring (especially as it changes ease-of-use)
· Multimedia document browsing
· User interfaces for new media types, content-based retrieval
· Real-time video as a media type
· Audio analysis, Applications
· User studies and design for specific populations
· Use of multimedia documents over a variety of displays (from PDAs to broadband workstations)
Minitrack Chairs:
Daniel M. Russell (Primary Contact)
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd.
San José, CA 94306
Phone (W): 408-927-1907
Daniel2@us.ibm.com
Andreas Dieberger
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA 95120
Phone: 408.927.1470
Fax: 408.927.3030
AndreasD@us.ibm.com
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Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, chat, email, blogs, bulletin boards, MOOs, graphical VR environments, document annotation systems, text messaging on mobile phones, etc. Their persistence affords new uses (e.g. searching, replaying, restructuring) and raises new problems. This multi-disciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our ability to understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation systems.
We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following two general areas:
Ideally, papers for the minitrack should also address the implications of their analysis or design for one or more of the following areas:
Minitrack Chairs:
Thomas Erickson (Primary Contact)
Research Staff Member
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
3136 Irving Ave. (Remote office)
Minneapolis MN 55408-2515
Phone: 612-823-3663 (normally); 914-784-6659 (Tu-Thu, every few weeks)
Fax: 612-823-1576
Professor of Information Science and Linguistics
School of Library and Information Science
10th St. and Jordan Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 856-4919
Fax: (812) 855-6166
herring@indiana.edu
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The Semantic Web seeks to extend the World Wide Web from a web for human users into a web for machines as well, where machines provide a powerful assist to the human users. Before a ubiquitous and Software Agent-enabled Semantic Web can be realized, there are a number of challenging issues in a number of divergent disciplines that must be solved. How can we better gather, fuse, interpret, analyze, and visualize information stored on the Web? How can we provide a rapid and profound understanding of the information that is available on the Web? This minitrack seeks to explore novel, multidisciplinary research in these and other broad issues related to the Semantic Web and the use of Software Agents.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Minitrack Chairs:
Mark T. Elmore (primary contact)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008
MS6364
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6364
Phone: 865-241-6372
Fax: 865-576-0003
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008
MS6359
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6359
Phone: 865-574-0834
Fax: 865-576-0003
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