Community of the Future

New visions of information technology products in everyday life

Community of the Future envisions new interaction paradigms and information technology scenarios that have the potential to empower ordinary people in everyday activities into the next millennium. Submissions are invited addressing any relevant topic, including, but not restricted to:

• Future technologies to support children’s learning
• Wearable, mobile technologies
• Creativity and expression through interactive environments
• Social and personal interactions in experimental environments
• Working with children in virtual and real environments
• Collaborative environments
• Interactive spaces in the real world
• Interactive media design and paradigms for interaction and learning
• Beyond the desktop

Proposers are free to choose any format: panel discussion, performance, traditional presentations, interactive lecture (involving some hands-on activity), or exhibition. Performances or live interpretations may involve research team members, users, or other participants. Scenarios based on scientific research as well as poetic, philosophical or other forms of creative interpretations are welcome. Proposers are encouraged to use non-conventional presentation techniques, but this is not mandatory for selection.

Each submission must be a paper of 2-4 pages. Proposals must be submitted electronically to cof-submssion@i3net.org in Postscript or RTF format. They must be accompanied by a filled-in cover sheet for submissions, which can be downloaded from the conference web page. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee.

Note to i3 members: All i3 projects are required to submit a contribution to the exhibition; project exhibits will form the basis of the project’s annual review. The Commission will also hold individual closed review sessions with i3 projects during the conference. More information on the review process to appear soon on the conference web page.

i3 projects are also encouraged to submit proposals for other forms of presentations; in this case i3 projects would be subject the same selection procedure as for non-i3 submissions to these events.

A limited number of opportunities exist to sponsor the conference. Please contact Jens Kr. Damsgaard (Tel: +45 6315 7232. Email: jkd@nis.sdu.dk) for more information.

Dates
Conference registration deadline: 24 September 1999
Submission deadline: 3 August 1999
Notification of authors: 25 August 1999
Final revised submissions: 10 September 1999

Fees
Registration: 300 Euro
Commercial exhibitor and sponsor notification: 3,000 Euro

The i³net Annual Conference Organising Committee

Conference organisation
Lars Heide, Conference Manager Natural Interactive Systems laboratory, Odense (DK)
Alberto Bianchi, Local Organiser Università degli Studi di Siena (I)

Local Organisation
Sebastiano Bagnara Giuliano Benelli Omar Calabrese Patrizia Marti Pierluigi Piccini

Programme Committee
David Benyon, Chair Napier University, Edinburgh (UK)
Richard Millwood Ultralab, Essex (UK.)
Marilyn Panayi Natural Interactive Systems laboratory, Odense (DK)
Thomas Rist German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Saarbrücken (D)
Duncan Smith Crystal Presentations Ltd, Birmingham (UK).
Manfred Tscheligi CURE - Centre for Usability Research & Engineering, Vienna

Business Opportunities:
Jens Kr. Damsgaard Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense (DK)

EC liaison:
Jakub Wejchert European Commission

More information

To receive more information please join the conference mailing list by sending e-mail to majordomo@i3net.org (with the sole text body: “subscribe cof” — subject is irrelevant), or contact:

Community of the Future
i3net secretariat
The Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
University of Southern Denmark, Science Park 10
DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Tel : +45 6550 3551, Fax: +45 6315 7224
Email: heide@nis.sdu.dk

Conference web page: www.i3net.org/cof/

Siena Situated 322 m. above sea level, in the heart of Tuscany, Siena is built on three hills. It has preserved intact its medieval appearance, characterised by narrow winding streets and noble buildings. Of Etruscan origin, Siena was once a Roman colony named Sena Julia. It grew in importance in the Middle Ages, first as the seat of the Lombard gastalds, and then as that of the Counts under the Carolingian domination. After a long period of episcopal dominion (9th-11th century) the town reached the height of its power after becoming a municipality (1147), and undertaking a policy of expansion towards the bordering territories. Confrontation with Florence was inevitable and the struggle lasted, with various vicissitudes, until 1555 when, after a long siege, Siena was conquered by the Florentines, lost its autonomy and part of the Duchy until unification with Italy. Siena is of great environmental and artistic interest and has a wealth of important monuments, including: • the Piazza del Campo, one of the most beautiful medieval squares in Italy • the Palazzo Pubblico (13th-14th century in Gothic style) overlooked by the bold Torre del Mangia (14th century, 102 m. high) • the Palazzo Sansedoni (13th-14th century, altered in the 19th century) • the Duomo (12th-14th century) on the Piazza del Duomo, one of the best examples of Gothic in Italy, with beautiful graffito and intarsia flooring