Digital Documents Track

Track Chair

Stephen Smolliar
FX Palo Alto Laboratory
3400 Hillview Avenue, #4
Palo Alto, California 94304
Phone: (650) 813-6703
Fax: (650) 813-7081
Email: smoliar@pal.xerox.com

Crossing Collaborational Divides: Digital Documents in Socio-Technical Networks

Description: This mini-track focuses on the use of networked information and communication technologies (ICTs) within and among communities-of-practice, to address the technical, geographic, social and economic dynamics that influence communications and collaborations within and among communities, and to stimulate interest in the ways in which informational environments constrain and enable collaborative interactions.

Minitrack Chair

Elizabeth Davidson (davidson@cba.hawaii.edu) 808-956-6657
Roberta Lamb (lamb@cba.hawaii.edu) 808-956-7368
Decision Sciences Department
College of Business Administration
University of Hawaii, Manoa
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
FAX: 808-956-9889

Digital Documents: Understanding and Communication

Description: This minitrack focuses on how one gains an understanding of a digital document and how that information is communicated. It encompasses retrieval and text analysis methods, including summarization, catergorization and genre theory and detection. In addition, we welcome papers on visualzation methods that increase understanding of document content and genre. Papers are solicited from workers in computer science and text analysis and linguitics as well as workers in psychology, HCI and sociology.

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Digital Technology and Educational Culture

Topics: We invite papers on Digital Technology and Educational Culture for the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science.  Focal points are:

• computational media design, usage and issues in learning communities, perceived within one or more cultures:
  1. educational
  2. technological
  3. organizational
  4. societal
  5. ethnic
• computational media's interaction with prevailing education practices relationship to change in educational practices.

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Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organizational Learning

Description: During the past seven years, this minitrack, has evolved into a key international forum for knowledge management and organizational memory researchers and practitioners. We encourage paper submissions from researchers and practitioners exploring how knowledge management can be operationalized using information technology, how knowledge can be managed in organizations, and how knowledge management and organizational memory relate to organizational learning.

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Persistent Conversation: Perspectives from Research and Design

Persistent conversations occur via email, mailing lists, bulletin boards, MOOs, chat, document annotation systems, etc. Their persistence affords new uses (e.g. searching, replaying, restructuring), and raises new problems. This interdisciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our ability to understand, analyze, and/or design systems for supporting persistent conversation.

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Video Use in the Office and Education

Description: Video use in the office and classroom is increasing at a spectacular rate. Increasingly, corporate and educational content is distributed via focused narrowcasting, or through special web reformatting. Meetings and presentations are also being recorded for later reference, with indexing and search tools becoming as common as the jog shuttle, fast forward and rewind. Rather than offering training classes, companies are now recording training materials and providing them on demand. In the classroom, lectures are now commonly recorded for later study or use at another time and place. This minitrack will address issues regarding the use of video in the office and classroom. Specific topics involving this application of video include but are not restricted to:

Topics:

• Video content analysis
• Video summarization
• Content authoring
• Video browsing
• User interfaces
• Content-based retrieval
• Audio analysis
• Applications
• User studies
• Coordinating with other media types

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