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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:53:19 -0600
From: Tom Erickson
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Call for Papers for
Persistent Conversation: Discourse as Document
Part of the Digital Documents Track
of the Thirty-second Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 5 - 8, 1999
This mini-track will explore persistent conversation, the transposition of ordinarily ephemeral conversation into the potentially persistent digital medium. The phenomena of interest include conversations carried out using email, mailing lists, news groups, bulletin board systems, textual and graphic MUDs, chat clients, structured conversation systems, document annotation systems, etc. Persistent conversations are interesting because they blend the characteristics of oral conversation with those of written text: they may be synchronous or asynchronous; their audience may be small or vast; they may be highly structured or almost amorphous; etc. The persistence of such conversations give them the potential to be searched, browsed, replayed, annotated, visualized, restructured, and recontextualized, thus opening the door to a variety of new uses and practices.
We are seeking papers that address issues such as the following:- Understanding Practice. The burgeoning popularity of the internet (and intranets) provides an opportunity to study and characterize new forms of conversational practice. Questions of interest range from how various features of conversations have adapted in response to the digital medium, to new roles played by persistent conversation in domains such as education, business, and entertainment.- Analytical Tools. The effort to understand practice requires an array of analytical tools and methods. One goal of this mini-track is to bring together researchers from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Communications, Education, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Rhetoric, and Sociology, so as to get a better understanding of approaches to analyzing persistent conversation.- Design. Digital systems do not support conversation well: it is difficult to converse with grace, clarity, depth and coherence over networks. But this need not remain the case. To this end, this mini-track welcomes analyses of existing systems and designs for new systems which better support conversation. Of equal interest are inquiries into how participants design their own conversations within the digital medium -- that is, how they make use of system features to create, structure, and regulate their discourse.- Social Implications. The persistence of digital conversation -- which permits it to be replayed, annotated, and modified -- is a sharp departure from the transience of oral conversation. Even as this suggests intriguing new applications, it also raises troubling issues of privacy, authenticity, and authority. Authors are encouraged to reflect on the implications of their observations, analyses, and designs.- Historical Parallels. There is much to be learned with a retrospective gaze. From the constructed dialogs of Plato to the epistolary exchanges of the eighteenth century literati, persistent conversation is not without precedent. How might earlier practices help us understand the new practices evolving in the digital medium? How might they help us design new systems? What perspectives might they offer on the social impacts of persistent conversation?
Minitrack Chair:
Thomas Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (remote office) 3136 Irving Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55408-2515 USA
(612) 823-3663 (voice) (612) 823-1576 (fax)
snowfall@acm.org (preferred) snowfall@us.ibm.com (alternate) http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson
Deadlines:
March 15, 1998: 300-word abstract submitted to track chairs or minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content (email submission preferred).
June 1, 1998: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chair
Aug. 31, 1998: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.
Oct. 1, 1998: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chair; author(s) must register by this time.
Nov. 15, 1998: All other registrations must be received. Registrations received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space limitations.
HICSS-32 consists of eight tracks:
Collaboration Systems and Technology Track Digital Documents Track Emerging Technologies Track Health Care Track Internet and the Digital Economy Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems Organizational Systems and Technology Track Software Technology Track
For more information about these tracks and a list of minitracks each consist of, please check the HICSS web page for full listing of the minitracks: http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss Or contact the Track Administrator, Eileen Dennis, at edennis@uga.edu
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Tom Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Email: snowfall@acm.org (preferred); snowfall@us.ibm.com (IBM confidential) http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson
Minneapolis Home/Office (most of the time) 3136 Irving Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408-2515 USA vox: (612) 823-3663 fax: (612) 823-1576
IBM/NewYork Office (6 days a month) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, H1-M09 30 Sawmill River Rd. Rt. 9A Hawthorn, NY 10532 USA vox: (914) 784-7577 or 7279 (lab) fax: (914) 784-7279 ```
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