The 7th Workshop of the Journal Le Travail Humain is organised in association with the Esprit's i3net, Intelligent Information Interfaces Network of Excellence. The workshop is also organised as part of the HIPS project in collaboration with the LIME and MLounge projects.

General theme
Communities, living in the same geographical area or spread all over the world, build and use artifacts, like tools, narratives, traditions etc. to keep alive and evolve their identity. Collective memories belonging to communities are not just a way for accumulating and preserving but also for sharing and developing knowledge. Indeed, as knowledge is made explicit and managed by a community, it enriches the local culture and the current practices, becoming a basis for communication and learning. Recently there have been several attempts to 'capture' the knowledge produced within organisations by their workers, and some project has been started for the development of tools supporting collective memories in local communities. These systems try to exploit the potentiality of the information technology to capture and distribute the knowledge produced by human beings during the working, everyday or leisure activities.

The workshop will address the problems of how information technology can support memories in different kind of communities, and how these technological tools should be designed.

Topics

• User studies related to the definitions of collective/organisational memories;
• Case studies related to the sharing of memories within organisations or small local communities;
• Collective and Organisational memories for communication and learning;
• Design of interfaces supporting preservation, access, sharing and communication of memories;
• Development of tools for intelligent memory management.

Paper Submission
Participants intending to submit a communication should send their full paper (no more than 10 pages, up to 5000 words). Papers may be theoretical or empirical, but they should focus on one or more of the issues described above. Papers must be received by 15 May 1998.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 30 June 1998. The papers can be sent as a postscript, a RTF or a Word file.
Please send all submissions electronically to marti@media.unisi.it.
Patrizia Marti and Sebastiano Bagnara - University of Siena - Multimedia Laboratory - Via dei Termini 6 - 53100 SIENA - Italy - Tél: +39 577 270335 - Fax: +39 577 298461

Registration
The workshop is open, not only to speakers but also to a larger audience. Participants should send their formal registration before 10 July 1998 to the following e-mail address: Travail.Humain@univ-valenciennes.fr.

Ginette Larvor - CNRS-UVHC - LAMIH, PERCOTEC, Le Travail Humain - B.P. 311 - 59304 VALENCIENNES CEDEX - France - Tél: +33 3 27 14 13 93 - Fax: +33 3 27 14 12 94.
Registered participants will receive a bill to pay the registration fees: FF 200.

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