Patterns of Disappearance

Workshop

held in conjunction with i3 Spring Days

March 1-3, 2000 in Athens, Greece

 

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I3 the European initiative for intelligent information interfaces was created in 1996 in order to take a human centred approach to the exploration of new, visionary interactive systems for people in their everyday activities. The global vision pursued by i3 is to help shape the future through comprehending the basic structures and trends in society and in the life of the individual.

 

Based on that understanding, the “Patterns of Disappearance” Workshop - held in conjunction with the I3 Spring Days 2000 Conference - aims at bringing together researchers in different fields in a brainstorming session on the themes of disappearing computers and mobile computing. These issues will be discussed with a scenario-based approach. Contributions will be in the form of short fictional stories about people dealing with as of yet non-existing technologies. The focus of the stories should be the impact of the technology on people’s lives (possibilities as well as problems). The purpose of the stories is to give an idea of the future usage of the technology. Authors of accepted stories will have the opportunity to present their ideas to the audience. Performances are warmly welcome.

 

 

THE WORKSHOP THEME

 

 

 

BRAINSTORMING TRACKS:

 

 
  • Where will the computer disappear into?
  • The techno-gap in using information appliances.
  • The gains and losses in terms of social interaction.
  • The risks and the benefits of adaptive and collaborative appliances.

 

The full day workshop 'Patterns of Disappearance' gathered around 25 researchers focusing on scenarios of future emergent technologies and fitting well with the upcoming IST call for "The Disappering Computer". The presentations can be found on ./contributions.html.

There was a general agreement that a focus on short scenarios as engines of dissemination was valuable and inspiring and ought to be continued. The organisers plan to set up a web page in order to continue both, the collection of further scenario descriptions as well as their discussion with regards to social impact and research challenges. The page will become accessible soon from i3net's homepage at www.i3net.org.

 

 

FINAL STATEMENT

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OTHER INFORMATION

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

 

 

Kari Kuutti Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Alan Munro Napier University, UK

Odd-Wiking Rahlff SINTEF, Norway

Thomas Rist DFKI, Germany

Massimo Zancanaro ITC-irst, Italy