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The Center for Research on
Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University
of California, Irvine and the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras, are pleased to announce an
international conference on Home/ Community Oriented ICT for the
Next Billion. The conference will be held in Chennai, India and
the dates are August 22-25, 2007.
The purpose
of the conference is to present papers, exchange ideas between
and among researchers from different disciplines relating to the
development of information and communication technologies for
home and community applications. The participants will include
researchers and specialists from universities, research organizations,
industry and government.
One of the major themes of the conference is the emerging economies
and the rural sector.
Conference
Contacts/ Program Chairs:
Alladi
Venkatesh
Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business
and Associate Director
CRITO (Center for Research on Information Technology)
3200 Berkeley Place
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697 USA
hoit2007@gmail.com
Timothy
A. Gonsalves
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Chennai 600 036 India
hoit2007@gmail.com
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ICT and emerging economies/ communities
- ICT-emerging
communities and societal issues
- ICT for
rural homes
- Communication
infrastructure
- Software
applications: education, entertainment, telemedicine, microfinance,
online commerce
- New Media
and cultural issues
- Other topics
of interest
ICT:
Broader Themes
- The connected
home and the home of the future
- Home and
intelligent environments
- Ubiquitous
computing and wireless home
- Play and
fun, in the home of the future
- Socialising
and the user experience
- Universal
access (for the home)
- Privacy,
security and identity (including biometrics) at home, on the
move, on the internet
- Domesticity
and ICT
- Virtual
and real communities
- Home robotics
- User-oriented
approaches and technology push
- Interplay
between the local and the global
- E-governance
and homes/citizens of the future
- Teleworking,
education, edutainment and learning
- New media
- Business
models (structures)
- Infrastructures
for home users
- The psychology
of the virtual and life impacts
- Information
society – status and future
- Children
and youth-centered technologies
- Virtual
influences on everyday life
- Older populations
- Socio-cultural
differences (and the wired home)
- Access,
inclusion/exclusion
- Digital
divide
- Technology
- telematics, automation, enabling
- Acceptance
and use of new technologies
- Studies
of non-use/rejection/drop-out
- Involving
users in the design of new ICTs
- Lessons
from ethnographic research on new ICTs in the home
- Other topics
of current interest
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