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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:22:43 -0500
From: "Andrew Clement"
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IFIP-WWC 97 6th International IFIP-Conference on Women, Work and Computerization "Spinning a Web from Past to Future"
May 24-27, 1997 Bonn, Germany
Organized under the auspices of IFIP WG 9.1 (Computers and Work) by the German Gesellschaft f=FCr Informatik (GI) and co-sponsored by the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD).
Conference Address: IFIP-WWC 97 c/o Doris Koehler Hamburg University Computer Centre Schlueterstr. 70 D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Fax: +49 + 40.4123-6270 Email: IFIP-WWC97@rrz.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/~frauen/first.htm
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S C O P E A N D O B J E C T I V E S
We invite you to participate at the 6th International IFIP-Conference on Women, Work and Computerization. WWC 97 is organised by the Special Interest Group 'Women's Work and Informatics' of the German 'Gesellschaft f=FCr Informatik' (GI). The conference is being held under the auspices of IFIP WG 9.1 (Computers and Work) and is co-sponsored by the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD).
The conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology.
This year's theme is 'Spinning a Web from Past to Future'. We will discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology, but with particular emphasis on changes in women's work and life and how these have come about. Such transformations include transition from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to communicating within virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on 'who does what'.
This series of conferences now has a tradition of interpreting the word 'computerization' not just in the narrow sense of computing systems, but also in a broader sense which includes the organisational and social context in which computer systems are designed and used.
Both empirical and theoretical research will be presented from international perspectives. Discourses are linked to the following topics:
1. Information Society, Multimedia and Networking
Can women's request for interpersonal networking be realised by new IT? How can multimedia and telecooperation be used successfully in order to improve women's living and working conditions? What is the impact of the transiency and changeability of electronic artefacts?
2. Creating Models and Tools
Which aspects of feminist perspectives, such as epistemological criticism, can be integrated into informatics? Which paradigms and metaphors have contributed to the construction of computer (software) and the theory of computer science? Do they exclude women? How should computer systems be designed which consider the requirements of women, e.g. user interfaces?
3. Not without a Body? Bodily Functions in Cyberspace
(How) Is the body represented in cyberspace/virtual reality and to what end? The body as interface. Transgressing the gendered body? Incorporating software agents.
4. Labour and Living: apart or together?
Do public and private space merge? Technical and sociall/political chances for flexible time-management; what are the restrictions? No more jobs without IT-knowledge? Global division of labour: on the way to equality?
5. Education
What should be the elements of an informatics curriculum which represents informatics as a node in the web of other disciplines? How can the subjectivity of modelling and designing be taught in informatics? Will IT remove the distinction between public and private education?
6. History - Herstory
Herstory of feminist criticism of IT. Has feminist criticism changed women's strategies for gaining access to and influencing new technologies? Can women's influence be recognised in formative processes of informatics?
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I N V I T E D T A L K S
International Networking of Women - Opportunities to Achieve Political Demands Prof. Dr. Rita S=FCssmuth President of the Federal Parliament of Germany
Feminist Perspectives on Democratization Dr. Heike Kahlert, Hamburg, Germany Sociologist, research and teaching on feminist social and political theory and sociology of science.
Female Engineers in a Phase of Radical Change - Results of Personnel Replacement at East German Universities Dr. Anke Burkhardt, Berlin, Germany Agricultural engineer, since 1981 scientific researcher on the system of higher education.
Along the Estuary Carolyn Guyer, New York, USA Artist, research on hyperfiction, author of Quibbling, founder and coordinator of HiPitched Voices and Mother Millennia.
Social and Cultural Challenges of the Information Society Politics of the European Union Karin Junker Member of the European Parliament; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media
Remembering the Future: Language, Webs, and the Power of the Invisible Allucqu=E8re Rosanne (Sandy) Stone, Austin, USA Assistant Prof in the Radio-TV-Film Department (University of Texas), cultural theorist, performance artist, director of the ACTLab, and spiritual leader of the cadre of mad, brilliant cybercrazies who inhabit it.
Saving Our Children? - The Promise of the Internet and the Perils of Censorship Marsha Woodbury, Urbana-Champaign, USA Computer Scientist, Chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and Director of Information Technology, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC. Actively involved in topics such as freedom of information and the ethical use of computers.
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P A N E L
"Not without a Body? Bodily Functions in Cyberspace"
Panelists: Barbara Becker (GMD, Germany), Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Brussel, Belgium), Judith Donath (MIT Media Lab, USA), Christina Schachtner (Marburg, Germany), Allucqu=E8re Rosanne Stone (University of Texas, USA), Ina Wagner (Vienna Technical University, Austria)
Moderator: Gloria Mark (GMD, Germany)
Abstract: As virtual worlds develop on the Internet and become more integrated into people's daily lives, we need to examine issues concerning how people are represented, and how these representations through the electronic medium affect people's social relationships and own identities. We can ask questions such as, what is the social function of the body, and what does the absence of body mean for social relationships? How is the body represented in cyberspace/ virtual reality and to what end? What kind of interface should we consider to represent the body, and what effect would it have on communication and understanding? When we consider social agents, what effect will new forms of physical appearance (or lack of) have? And with new physical representations should we expect new gender roles, perhaps in addition to the identity deception and temporary personas that we already see in Cyberspace? In this panel, we attempt to discuss these issues, representing perspectives from psychology, sociology, biology, anthropology, and computer science in order to broaden our insight and understanding of our virtual selves.
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T U T O R I A L S
Friday, May 23rd, 1997
9:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 17:30 Tutorials at the conference house Gustav-Stresemann-Institut:
T1: Qualifying Female Computer Users - Luxury or Necessity? Angelika R. Rudolph, Hamburg University Computer Centre, Germany This one day tutorial will address the question: What is qualification of computer users, refering e.g. to their current training situation and differences between male and female computer users. It contains a description and discussion of pros and cons of different methods to qualify computer users whether by tutorials, on-line help, manuals, CBT, training or local experts. Furthermore the consequences and costs of non qualified female computer users on the women themselves, the work quality and the business effectivity are contents of this tutorial. Target group are personnel managers, trainers and people interested in qualification methods.
T2: Telematics for (Prospective) Women IT Managers Maggie McPherson, Sheffield University UK, and Steffi Engert, SOKOM, Cologne, Germany
Based on the telematics part of the postgraduate course "MA in Information Technology Management" taught at the University of Sheffield, this tutorial is concerned with learning the practical skills for using telematics as tools. The tutors would like to discuss the wider issues of the Information Society including the gender dimension as well as utopias and dystopias. The telematic methods used in this tutorial for delivery and for tutoring will be e-mail, networking software and the World Wide Web. The tutorial will also give an overview of experiences people have had with telematics; these experiences are based on the findings from taught courses such as the MA mentioned above. There will be a practical exercise. The half day course is aimed particularly at attracting women to the important area of IT Management which is also crucial for self-employed women and heads of small and micro businesses in the new IT-related service sectors.
T3: Women and Intelligent Networks: Experience in a Leading-Edge Technological Project Tiziana Margaria, Passau University, Germany
The goal of the tutorial is to introduce Intelligent Networks (IN) as one of the key technologies of future telecommunication networks, one which could play a role equivalent to that which the World Wide Web is now playing on the Internet. Topics which will be covered are the relevance of IN for everyday life in the future and its impact on work practices. New technical facilities will be presented in an on-line demonstration. The impact of these new approaches on the economy and society will be discussed with particular reference to their social benefits. This one day tutorial is addressed to all those interested in the innovative area of telecommunications.
T4: Telework: The First Step to the Virtual Company. Consequences for the Employment of Women and their Lives Birgit Godehardt, TA Telearbeit, Geilenkirchen, Germany
Different forms of telework like tele-work, satellite offices or neighbourhood offices up to the model of the virtual company will be presented in this tutorial. It will include a presentation of successful tele-work projects from German companies as well as a demonstration of the organizational and technical possibilities for tele-work for practical purposes. The advantages, usefullness and economy of forms of virtual organization are topics which will also be discussed. This presentation will also involve practical examples of tele-work at Thyssen in Kassel, the results of a study of initiatives for the promotion of tele-work by the German Land of North Rhine-Westphalia and the experience of implementing tele-work in public adminstration in Italy. The target group of this tutorial are all those who are interested in implementing telework and examining the effects of its introduction whether from the organizational point of view or from the user's perspective.
T5: Working towards the Integration of Women. New Forms of Work and the Use of New Information and Communication Technologies in Production Eileen Green, University of Teesside, UK
The half day tutorial will examine new opportunities for women in the world of labour. Such opportunities are arising from the introduction of modern production systems particularly those which make use of information and communication technologies. The tutor will discuss strategies for women to break down obsolet barriers. The current activities of national and international projects aimed at promoting women in European countries will be described. In particular, the results of four ongoing projects in Switzerland are presented and a report on a current project in Germany highlights the important problem of qualifications for women for new technologies. Target group are both women employed in companies establishing IT and women who are developing such projects.
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Friday, May 23rd, 1997 09:00- 17:30 Tutorials
18:00 Buffet and informal get together
Saturday, May 24th, 1997
10:00 Conference Opening and Welcome Prof. Dr. Wilfried Brauer, Vice-President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Prof. Dr. Wolffried Stucky, President of the German Society for Informatics (GI) Dr. Ute Claussen, Speaker of the GI-Special Interest Group "Women's Work and Informatics"
10:45 International Networking of Women - Opportunities to Achieve Political Demands Prof. Dr. Rita S=FCssmuth, President of the Federal Parliament of Germany 11:45 Break and Lunch
13:30 Feminist Perspectives on Democratization Dr. Heike Kahlert, Hamburg, Germany 14:30 Break 15:00 Parallel Sessions
Topic 1: Information Society, Multimedia and Networking - Part 1: Internet, Communication and Gender Martina Schollmeyer, Linda Janz, Urs Gattiker: Privacy and the Internet: Only Woman's Concern? Christel Kumbruck: A Woman's Worm's-Eye View of the Information Society Margit Pohl, Greg Michaelson: "I don't think that's an interesting dialogue" - Computer-Mediated Communication and Gender David Foreman, Frances Grundy, Sue Lees: Sex, Age and the Desirability of Computers
Topic 4: Labour and Living: apart or together? - Part 1: Local and Global Division of Labour: on the Way to Equality? Stana Martin: Formation of the 'Global Office' - Women and the Globalization of Information Labour Bimbo Soriyan: Computer Technology in the Nigerian Banking Industry: Where are the Women? Eva Turner: What is our Worth? Th=E9r=E8se Rafferty: Factors that Attract Women to Careers in Information Technology.
Topic 5: Education - Part 1: From School to Informatics: Inclusion or Exclusion? Britta Schinzel: Why has Female Participation Decreased in German Informatics? Bente Rasmussen: Girls and Computer Science: "It's Not Me. I'm Not Interested in Sitting Behind a Machine all Day." Anita Greenhill, Liisa von Hellens, Sue Nielsen, Rosemary Pringle: Multiple Meanings and Multiculturalism.
18:30 Reception at the Women's Museum, Bonn
Sunday, May 25th, 1997
09:30 Female Engineers in a Phase of Radical Change - Results of Personnel Replacement at East German Universities Dr. Anke Burkhardt, Berlin, Germany 10:30 Break 11:00 Parallel Sessions
Topic 2: Creating Models and Tools - Part 1 Jeanette Hofmann: Writers, Texts and Writing Acts - Gendered Users' Images Inscribed in Word Processing Software Sarah Willis: The Moral Order of an Information System Ellen Balka: Sometimes Texts Speak Louder Than Users: Locating Invisible Work through Textual Analysis
Topic 4: Labour and Living: apart or together? - Part 2: (Dis-)Location of Workplaces? Toni Robertson: "And it's a generalisation. But no it's not": Women, Communicative Work and the Discourses of Technology Design Mervi Lehto: The Resources of the Productive Office - Women's and Men's Opinions on Telematics and Intelligent Building Features Crystal Fulton: Who is in Control? Canadian Experiences in Teleworking Caroline St. Clair: Opportunities in the Wake of a New Revolution: A Look at Women's Labour
Topic 6: History - Herstory Heike Stach: The Construction of the Von-Neumann-Concept as Constituent for Technical and Organical Computers Marja Vehvila=EFnen: Gender and Expertise in Retrospection: Pioneers of Computing in Finland Kea Tijdens: Gender Segregation in IT Occupations 12:45 Lunch
14:30 Along the Estuary Carolyn Guyer, New York, USA 15:30 Break 16:00 Boat Trip on the River Rhine
19:30 Remembering the Future: Language, Webs, and the Power of the Invisible Prof. Allucqu=E8re Rosanne Stone, Austin, USA
20:30 Dancing-Night at the Conference House
Monday, May 26th, 1997
09:00 Social and Cultural Challenges of the Information Society Politics of the European Union Karin Junker, Member of EP 10:00 Break 10:30 Parallel Sessions
Topic 2: Creating Models and Tools - Part 2 Cecile Crutzen: Giving Room to Femininity in Informatics Education Brigitte Pientka: How to prove it Alison Adam, Maureen Scott: Feminist Computational Linguistics Ulrike Erb: Exploring the Excluded. Feminist Research - An Issue to Open New Perspectives in Computer Science
Topic 4: Labour and Living: apart or together? - Part 3: Engendering by Organizational Development? Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay: Change and Continuity: Transformations in the Gendered Division of Labour Niki Panteli, Martin Beirne, Harvie Ramsay: Engendered Software Development: Ghettoisation, Rationalisation and Agency Beatrice Sigrist: Asymmetries or Symmetries between Technology and Structures in Organizations? Zena Cumberpatch: Making our Futures: Professional Women and their IT at Work
Topic 5: Education - Part 2: Quality of Education with IT Ita Richardson: Use of Quality Function Deployment to develop Women's Studies Strategy D.M. Thompson, G. R. Homer: Do the Promises made by the New Technologies Fulfil Women's Educational and Employment Needs? Annemieke Craig, Julie Fisher, Angela Scollary: Changing Perceptions Through a one Day Introduction to Texas, IT for Secondary School Girls 12:15 Lunch 14.00 Parallel-Sessions
Presentation of Conference Posters Steffi Engert, Annmargeth Granson, Agendum, Clem Herman, Natalya Babich, Helga Heumann, Renate Fries: The Experience of WEBIN (Women's Electronic Business Incubating Network) Martina Hammel: Information Systems - Fitting in Hierarchy? Daisy Jiang, Tricia Jiang: Women and Education in I T Dagny Stuedahl, Kristin Braa: Where have all the Women Gone?
Panel "Not without a Body? Bodily Functions in Cyberspace" Barbara Becker (GMD, Germany), Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Brussel, Belgium), Judith Donath (MIT Media Lab, USA), Christina Schachtner (Marburg, Germany), Allucqu=E8re Rosanne Stone (University of Texas, USA), Ina Wagner (Vienna Technical University, Austria), Moderator: Gloria Mark (GMD, Germany) 15:30 Break
16:00 Transfer to GMD - The German National Research Center for Information Technology 16:30 Welcome: Prof.Dr. Dennis Tsichritzis, Head of GMD Executive Board
16:45 Software-Demonstrations Ute K=FClper: "B=FCcherschatz" - A Children's OPAC Melanie V=F6lker, Uta Brandes, Luzia P. Klapper: International Women Designers Network Further Demonstrations at GMD-Laboratories
18:30 Dinner at Castle Birlinghoven Welcome: Cornelia Yzer, Head of GMD Supervisory Board (invited) 20:30 Transfer to the Conference House
Tuesday, May 27th, 1997
09:00 Parallel Sessions Topic 1: Information Society, Multimedia and Networking - Part 2: Exploring the Internet Leslie Regan Shade: Access to the Internet for Women's Groups Across Canada Christine Whitehouse, Gillian Lovegrove, Sue Williams: IT EQUATE through the Web and Internet Yayoi Taguchi, Junko Yoshimura: Women's Online Media (WOM) and Women's Internet Work Shuttle (WIS) - a pioneering project in Japan Sue Myburgh: What You See Is What You Get: Cyberchix and Virtual Systers
Topic 4: Labour and Living: apart or together? - Part 4: Technological Innovations and Gendered Experiences Vitalina Koval: The Impact of Technological Innovations on Female Labour Force Helena Karasti: Notes on gendered experiences in a field study of a teleradiology experiment Martha L. Nangalama, Andrew Clement: Introducing Point of Sale Technology in a Retail Chain Store 10:30 Break
11:30 Saving Our Children? - The Promise of the Internet and the Perils of Censorship Marsha Woodbury, Chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, USA
12:30 Lunch and Close of the Conference Afternoon: Guided Tourist/Shopping Tour in Bonn/Cologne
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Programme Committee
Alison Adam (GB), Andrew Clement (CDN), Barbara Becker (D), Susanne B=F8dker (DK), Cecile K. M. Crutzen (NL), Steffi Engert (D), Ulrike Erb (D), Jutta Eusterbrock (D), Christiane Funken (D), Eileen Green (GB), Joan Greenbaum (USA), A. Frances Grundy (GB), Ileana Hamburg (D), Hanja Hansen (CH), Maritta Heisel (D), Ute Hoffmann (D), Eva H=FCttenhain (D), Vivi Katsa (GR), Doris K=F6hler (D), Vitalina Koval (RUS), Bettina Kuhlmann (D), Christel Kumbruck (D), Gloria Mark (D, USA), Cecilia Ng (MAL), Veronika Oechtering (D), Uta Pankoke-Babatz (D), Ulrike Petersen (D), Bente Rasmussen (N), Fanny-Michaela Reisin (D), Gabriele Schade (D), Heidi Schelhowe (D), Britta Schinzel (D), Bettina Schmitt (D), Angela Scollary (AUS), Lucy Suchman (USA), Marja Vehvila=EFnen (FIN), Ina Wagner (A), Gabriele Winker (D)
Conference Committee
Organising Co-Chairs Doris K=F6hler, Veronika Oechtering, Ulrike Petersen
Tutorials Chair Jutta Eusterbrock, Doris K=F6hler
Posters Chair Ileana Hamburg
Demonstrations Chairs Jutta Eusterbrock, Uta Pankoke-Babatz
Proceedings Chair Doris K=F6hler
Local Arrangements Eva H=FCttenhain, Uta Pankoke-Babatz, Ulrike Petersen
Main Organizer Contact and Treasurer Veronika Oechtering
Design Maike Kaluscha, D-28217 Bremen
Conference Management Christine Harms -ccHa- c/o GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnologie GmbH Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49 +2241-14-2473 Fax: +49 +2241-14-2472 Email: harms@gmd.de
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R E G I S T R A T I O N I N F O R M A T I O N
Location The IFIP-WWC 97 Conference will be held at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institut (GSI), Langer Grabenweg 68, D-53175 Bonn, Germany. It is located just south of the downtown area within easy reach of the main train station. Major airports are Cologne/Bonn (with regular bus service to downtown Bonn), Duesseldorf (1 hour by train), and Frankfurt (2 hours by train). Registered participants will receive information about GSI and how to get there.
Accommodation Double and single rooms are available at GSI for all conference participants. All rooms are with shower and WC, all linen, towels and soap are provided. Rooms will be allocated at a first-come-first-served basis. We reserve the right to change a reservation from a double to a single room if demand exceeds supply.
Fee for a single/double room is 140 DM/120 DM per person per night.
Accommodation fee covers breakfast buffet, lunch, coffee/tea breaks, and dinner. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals are offered. To book a room, please fill in the room reservation section on the registration form and return to the conference office. Rooms need to be pre-paid at the time of registration.
Conference Fees Early Registration Late Registration (before March 24th) (after March24th) Regular 200 DM 250 DM Reduced* 150 DM 200 DM Student* 70 DM 90 DM The conference fee covers the conference proceedings, all social events and transport tickets for use in Bonn.
*Reductions Reductions are given to members of IFIP-member societies (GI, ACM, BCS etc.). We also have limited funds for supporting students and others who cannot afford the standard fee. If the number of applicants for these funds is not too great we will also be able to reduce the accommodation fees. Students and others who wish to apply for reduced fees should register in the normal way, pay the full accommodation fee, and send a letter explaining their situation.
Conference Publication On arrival, all participants will receive a copy of conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Conference Language The conference language is English. All keynote lectures and some sessions will be translated to German.
Child Care Throughout the whole conference nursery personnel will be available. There is no extra fee for this facility. Children's accommodation fee: 0-5 years free, 6-11 years 50 DM per night.
Cancellation and Refunds Cancellation requests must be sent to Christine Harms at the conference office. For those cancellations received before April 30th, all fees, apart from a cancellation charge of DM 50, will be refunded. We regret that no refunds can be made for cancellations received after April 30th.
Payments and Registration Address Payment must be made
Return the registration form (and cheque) to
Christine Harms -ccHa- c/o GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnologie Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49 +2241-142473, Fax: +49 +2241-142472 Email: harms@gmd.de
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REGISTRATION FORM for IFIP-WWC 97
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Dipl.-Inform. Veronika Oechtering Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik Universitaet Bremen Postfach 330440 D-28334 Bremen Germany Tel. 0421-218-2701 (d.) 0421-373220 (pr.) e-mail: oechteri@informatik.uni-bremen.de
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