Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.
Department of Decision Sciences
University of Hawaii
2404 Maile Way, C-202
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7082
Fax: (808) 956-9889
E-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu
It is becoming increasingly clear that the succcessful use of digital
media requires the emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication.
By genres we mean not just particular technologies or modes of communication
or presentation (e.g., hypertext, email, the Web, and so on), but complex
communicative forms anchored in specific institutions and practices -- the
digital analogues, that is, of print forms like the newspaper, the annual
report, the how-to manual, the scholarly journal.
We invite papers that address digital genres from points of view like
the following -- though this list is intended to be suggestive, not exhaustive:
* Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form
* Genres in digital search and classification
* Genre theory and its application to digital documents
* Investigations of genre in use
* Analyses of particular document genres
* Designing in support of genre
We invite two kinds of submissions: "position papers" that take on the broad questions of the role of genre in our understanding of digital documents, and case studies, designs, or reports that shed light on particular aspects of digital genres.
Geoffrey Nunberg
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
ph: 415-812-4711
fax: 415-812-4777
nunberg@parc.xerox.com
Jan Pedersen
Verity Inc.
jpederse@verity.com
The "Libraries for Digital Documents" minitrack will focus on the principles and implementation of organized collections of digital documents. The topics will include:
* The organization and representation of digital document collections to
foster access to the collections. Metadata and descriptive information about
digital documents.
* Selection criteria and collection policy for developing digital document
collections. Heterogeneity of digital document collections.
* Indexes and indexing, catalogs and cataloging for digital document collections.
Effective information retrieval techniques for digital documents
* The user interfaces that have been produced to provide search and browsing
capabilities within the collections.
* Analyses of user interaction with digital document collections, for both
design and evaluation of effectiveness, and methodologies for evaluation.
* Social and economic impact of digital libraries and digital document collections.
Intellectual property rights and fair use of digital document collections.
Ray R. Larson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, CA 94720
ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu
You are invited to submit papers pertaining to the the impact of digital documents on organizations and the workplace. Papers should focus on how the digitalization of document based information affects the workings of organizations. Papers dealing with how digital documents improve organizational performance and communication, streamline production processes, enable electronic commerce, and leverage organizational memory in new ways are especially encouraged. Additionally, papers are welcome which deal with the effect of digital documents on new kinds of organizational structures, such as virtual organizations and the new structure of future jobs and skills needed for them.
Papers can be one or more of the following: a completed research paper, a description of research in progress, or a industry case study. Research papers should be original, unpublished elsewhere. Include an abstract with the body of the full paper. Research in progress submissions should describe the research project, methodology, objectives, and status. Industry case studies should report applications of digital documents in the workplace (whether successful or not), and should explain results and impacts.
Magid Igbaria
Faculty of Management
Tel-Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978
+972-3-6406334
FAX: +972-3-6407742
igbariam@cgs.edu
Henk Sol
Delft Univeristy of Technology
School of Systems Engineering Policy Analysis and Management
P.O. Box 5015
2600 GA Delft, THE NETHERLANDS
+31-15-278-7179
FAX: +31-15-278-3429
E-mail: Sol@sepa.tudelft.nl
In the process of becoming and information society, we have to find efficient ways to handle increasing information loads. Whereas computers in the sixties and seventies relieved clerks from information processing tasks, we find ourselves at the other end of a voyage where computer systems generate more information than we can process. A number of cognitive, social, managerial and regulatory problems arise in the wake of information overload. This minitrack provides a forum for presenting work in this area. (Electronic submissions only).
Visit our web site at http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/hicss/coping.html
LIST OF TOPICS
* Managerial, cognitive, social and regulatory aspects of coping with information
overload
* Privacy in the information society
* Learning to handle information strategies for individuals and organizations
* Visualization of Information: techniques and strategies to understand
large amounts of information
* Information filtering strategies
* Hypermedia as a solution
* Solving the "Getting lost in Hyperspace" problem.
* Case studies
Michael Bieber
CIS Department
University Heights
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102-1982
(201) 596-2681
FAX: (201) 596-5777
E-mail: bieber@cis.njit.edu
http://hertz.njit.edu/~bieber/bieber.html
Tomas Isakowitz
Information Systems Department
Stern School of Business
9-79 MEC
New York University
44 West 4th St.
New York, NY 10012-1126
(212) 998-0833
FAX: (212) 998-4228
E-mail: tomas@stern.nyu.edu
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~tisakowi
Mark Ginsburg
Information Systems
Stern School of Business MEC
New York University
44 West 4 Street, Room 9-181
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-0835
fax : (212) 995-4228
E-mail: Mark@edgar.stern.nyu.edu
http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/
This minitrack is concerned with how digital documents will assume the roles of documents in business and scholarly environments and how those roles are likely to change in response to technological developments. The topics to be investigated include creating digital documents, content analysis and navigation, communicating through digital documents, organizing digital documents, and documents in the digital workplace. We are particularly interested in how multiple media may be engaged in creating documents and in research concerned with the purposes that digital documents serve and how the use of media is linked to content.
Stephen Smoliar
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
3400 Hillview Avenue, Bldg. 4
Palo Alto, California 94304
415-813-6703
FAX: +1-415-813-7081
smoliar@pal.xerox.com
Clifford Lynch
University of California
Office of the President
300 Lakeside Drive, 8th floor
Oakland, CA 94612-3550
Clifford.lynch@ucop.edu
This minitrack will provide a forum for exchanging ideas on multi-media information management and application development from the "Management" and "Information Systems" perspectives in an organizational context.
Appropriate topics include, but not limited to, the following:
1. Multi-media information storage (database), access/retrieval and communication
2. Integration of multi-media technology with the existing information systems
3. Modeling and design of multi-media information systems
4. Implementation issues: standards, cost/benefit analysis, measuring effectiveness,
etc.
5. Tools for supporting multi-media information system development
Hong-Mei Chen
Department of Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of Hawai'i
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822-2282
(808) 956-7286
FAX: (808) 956-9889
E-mail: hmchen@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu
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