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S. Shyam Sundar Chair
Pennsylvania State U
College of Communications
212, Carnegie Building
University Park PA 16802-5101
Ph. 814-865-2173 Fax 814-863-8161
sss12@psu.edu
James Katz Vice-Chair
Rutgers U
School of Communication and Information
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick NJ 08901
Ph. 732-932-7500 Fax 732-932-6916
ica.cat2010@gmail.com
James Danowski Secretary
U of Illinois - Chicago
Department of Communication, M/C 132
1007 W. Harrison Street
Chicago IL 60607
Ph. 312-413-2129 Fax 312-413-2125
jimd@uic.edu
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The Communication and Technology Division of ICA focuses on information and communication technology in relation to communication issues from a psychological or sociological view. Specifically it addresses human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, social interaction and networking, group dynamics, organizational contexts and societal/cultural contexts. CAT is not about technology per se, but rather about the interaction with social and personal entities at the micro, meso and macro level. However, technology can not be dealt with as a black box in a CAT-contribution. Technological characteristics should have some focus of attention. At least one technology characteristic should be addressed. Otherwise a contribution could just as well belong to one of the other ICA divisions. Further, the nature of research in CAT preferably should be innovative and critical.
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English /Spanish
Internet Television (IPTV and VOD) Conference
Share, Communicate, Educate
Date: March 24/25, 2010, Madrid, Spain.
The general public became aware of IPTV in 2006 when the Youtube phenomenon reached millions of visits. For this reason, Google made it part of its Internet conglomerate. Also, since 2005, Media companies have been offering TV content through the Internet (Imagenio, Jazztel TV) and the classical websites started to use video and broadcast live. It is not only a media and telecommunications revolution, it is also important for information, entertainment and specially training and education.
In these sessions we will analyze trends and opportunities of Internet TV (both IPTV and Video on Demand VOD) for Universities, research and training centres, business -oriented ICT companies and for schools and institutions, spending several sessions in teachers as “prescribers” of technology in the classroom.
Target audience:
Researchers and Professors. School principals and junior high school and high school teachers.
Communication departments of educational Institutions or in need of awareness. On line Marketing departments.
People interested in embarking on a new stage of communication.
Venue: The conference room of the School of Communications at Building C, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda Complutense s / n. Madrid 28003.
Access by Metro: Ciudad Universitaria (line 6)
Director: Dr. Loreto Corredoira, PhD. loretoc@ccinf.ucm.es. This email address is protected against spambots. You must enablejava_script in order to view it.
Organization: e-Television, Spin off Complutense University and the Complutense IPTV Group.
The Conference will be in Spanish. Discussion in English or Spanish
Collaborators: The School of Communications of Universidad Complutense de Madrid. EspacioTV-CEPAL
Fees: Special Fees for ECREA Members: 150€ (Option 5 Paypal)
Conference Website: www.e-television.es/jornadas
For Registration click here http://www.e-television.es/correo/index1.html
Programme- http://www.e-television.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171&Itemid=128
La Televisión por Internet (TVIP y VOD)
Compartir, Comunicar, Educar
La IPTV ha sido conocida por el público general en 2006 cuando el fenómeno YouTube alcanzó millones de entradas, razón por la que Google lo incorporó a su conglomerado de Internet. También porque desde 2005 las operadoras de telecomunicaciones ofrecen contenidos de televisión a través de redes de Internet (Imagenio, Jazztel TV) o porque los sitios y web clásicos han ido introduciendo vídeo, emitiendo en directo programas. No es sólo una revolución en el sector de los medios, o de las “teleco”, sino en información, entretenimiento y, sobre todo, en educación y formación.
En estas Jornadas analizaremos las tendencias y oportunidades de las INTERNET TV (tanto la TVIP como el Video on Demand –VOD-) para Universidades, Centros de Investigación y Formación, Empresas orientadas a las TICs, así como para colegios e institutos, dedicando algunas sesiones a los profesores como docentes y “prescriptores” de las tecnologías en las aulas.
A quién se dirige:
Investigadores y Profesores universitarios, Directivos de centros educativos, Profesores de Secundaria y Bachillerato.
Departamentos de Comunicación de instituciones educativas o con necesidades de Sensibilización. Departamentos de Marketing on Line.
Interesados en lanzarse a un nuevo escenario de comunicación.
Fecha: 24 y 25 de marzo de 2010
Lugar: Madrid. Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Salón Conferencias
Edificio C, Universidad Complutense. Avda. Complutense s/n. Madrid 28003.
Metro Ciudad Universitaria (línea 6)
Dirige: Dra. Loreto Corredoira, loretoc@ccinf.ucm.es Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activarjava_script para visualizarla
Organiza: e-Televisión, spin off de la Complutense y el Grupo Complutense IPTV
Colaboran:
Facultad de Ciencias de la Información - EspacioTV-CEPAL
Fees: Special Fees for ECREA Members: 150€ (Opción 5 Paypal)
Website: www.e-television.es/jornadas - Para Inscripción entre aquí.
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Invitation: Major New Study on Children's Media Use
RSVP Required
To RSVP, please send your name and affiliation to tboston@kff.org
Contact:
Rakesh Singh
(650) 854-9400
rsingh@kff.org
On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 the Kaiser Family Foundation will release Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, one of the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information on the amount and nature of media use by American youth. The survey is the third wave of the Foundation's studies of children's media use, providing a detailed look at current media use patterns among young people and documenting changes in children's media habits from five (2004) and ten (1999) years ago.
The study covers television, video games, the Internet, cell phones, movies, music, and print; explores the media environment in young people's homes and bedrooms; documents differences by age, gender and race; and looks at popular activities such as social networking, multitasking, and mobile media use.
The event will include a presentation of the study findings by Vicky Rideout, Vice President and Director of the Foundation's Program for the Study of Media and Health
* Michael Rich, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Director, Center on
Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston
* Stephen Friedman, JD, Executive Vice President, MTV Networks
and General Manager, MTV
* Richard Taylor, Senior Vice President for Communications and
Research, Entertainment Software Association
* Donald Roberts, PhD, Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus,
Stanford University
The panel will discuss issues such as:
* How do current levels of media use and multitasking affect
children's healthy development?
* What do these data tell us about parenting in today's media age?
* What do these trends mean for policymakers, children's
advocates and media companies?
WHEN:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Breakfast and registration at 9:00 a.m.
Presentations begin at 9:30 a.m.
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WHERE:
Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Kaiser Family Foundation Office) 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC (one block west of Metro Center)
RSVP Required:
To RSVP, please send your name and affiliation to tboston@kff.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues.
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5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION 2010 http://hri2010.org/
Workshop on Interaction Science Perspective on HRI: Designing Robot Morphology
March 2, Osaka (Japan)http://www.robot.uji.es/research/events/hri2010
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Overview
This half-day HRI 2010 workshop will address the impact of robot morphology on human-robot interaction (HRI) from the perspective of Interaction Science (IS), which advances knowledge about human interactions with digital technologies for pursuing theory, design, creation, implementation and evaluation of communication technologies.
If embodiment is the unique feature of robots, then a fundamental HRI issue pertains to the effect of a particular morphology or physical design in the way humans interact with a robot, what humans expect the robot to do, and how humans respond to it. Morphology is first conditioned by the specific engineering purpose that the robot must fulfill. For example, a vision-based system suggests the design of an anthropomorphic face, but this has to be balanced with the "uncanny valley effect": at what point does human response to an anthropomorphic robot change from empathy to repulsion? Clearly, morphology holds important meanings for users. Different morphologies suggest different affordances to users, triggering a variety of cognitive heuristics and thereby shaping their interactions with robots.
As the outcome of this workshop, we expect some progress towards more human-acceptable interactions with robots by understanding the cognitive, behavioral, organizational, and contextual factors of morphology in HRI and paving the way for development of meta-theories and design guidelines. We emphasize the importance of the user context and the complexity and diversity of human behavior, along with a highly multi-disciplinary approach to HRI, involving participants from communication, engineering, psychology, design, and other disciplines. By encouraging integration of multiple perspectives, we aspire to arrive at new insights. The workshop will be organized in such a way as to generate fruitful discussions, it will consist of invited presentations, regular presentations and posters, with additional time for discussions.
Call for Contributions
Contributions are solicited in different categories provided that they are relevant to the workshop topic, i.e. the impact of robot morphology on HRI, as described above. We encourage a variety of perspectives on this topic in the interdisciplinary spirit of Interaction Science, emphasizing user aspects of robot morphology. Thus, submissions could describe results of research, user studies, research in progress, position papers, concept explication, theoretical elaboration, descriptions of interface prototypes and other forms of contributions to advancement of knowledge pertaining to robot morphology and HRI. Final contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, available to all attendees of the conference.
Submissions should be in pdf format and preferably in standard IEEE two-column format, but no longer than 2 pages. All submissions should be sent by email to both organizers of the workshop:
Angel P. del Pobil and S. Shyam Sundar NO LATER than 5 pm GMT on 15 January 2010 (firm deadline)
Please include [HRI2010] in the email subject line and the following information in the body: title of paper, author list, contact email, name of attached pdf file.
Important Dates
15 January 2010 (strict) - Extended abstracts submission deadline
20 January 2010 - Notification of acceptance
10 February 2010 - Final versions due
Proceedings
The organizers will put together the proceedings of the workshop consisting of accepted contributions in final form, the conclusions resulting from the discussions and other relevant materials.
Organizers
Angel P. del Pobil, Robotic Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.robot.uji.es)
Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain , http://www3.uji.es/~pobil/
Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Jaume I (Spain) and founding director of the UJI Robotic Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests include: human-robot interaction, humanoid robots, service robotics, robot physical interaction, robot learning, developmental robotics, and the interplay between neurobiology and robotics.
S. Shyam Sundar, Media Effects Research Laboratory (http://www.psu.edu/dept/medialab)
College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, USA http://comm.psu.edu/people/sss12
S. Shyam Sundar is distinguished professor of communication and founding director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State University (USA). His research investigates social and psychological effects of technological elements in media interfaces. His MAIN Model is particularly appropriate for studying the role of robot morphology on user cognitions and their subsequent interactions.
This workshop is sponsored by the Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE HERBERT S. DORDICK DISSERTATION AWARD
The Communication and Technology (CAT) division of the International Communication Association (ICA) invites nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. This award honors the memory of Prof. Dordick by recognizing annually the most outstanding dissertation on communication and technology produced in the preceding year. The award will be presented this coming year at the Business Meeting of the CAT division during the 2010 ICA conference in Singapore.
The rules for nominating a dissertation are:
1. Any CAT-related dissertation completed (i.e., successfully defended) between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2009 is eligible for consideration. Dissertation authors need not be members of CAT division to be considered, but must be ICA members to accept the award.
2. Dissertations may be nominated by the author, dissertation advisor or a professional colleague. Full contact information of the author and the nominee must be provided, including name, phone number, surface mail address, and email address.
3. Nomination materials should include: (a) the author’s contact information, (b) proof of completion of the dissertation along with date, (c) a one-page abstract of the dissertation, (d) a 1-2 page statement describing the significance of the work and why it is deserving of the award, and (e) a representative chapter, selected sections of the dissertation, OR a paper distilling it, up to 30 (double-spaced) pages maximum, excluding references, tables, and figures.
4. The deadline for receipt of nomination materials is midnight of February 15, 2010 (Greenwich Mean Time). Submissions must be made electronically in PDF form to sss12@psu.edu.
Address all questions about this award to S. Shyam Sundar, Chair, Communication & Technology Division, at sss12@psu.edu
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE FIRST DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
Singapore, 22 June 2010
The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division proudly announces the first-ever Doctoral Consortium to be held in conjunction with the 2010 Conference of the International Communication Association. The consortium will be held at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on June 21.
Goal of the Doctoral Consortium
The consortium intends to bring together PhD candidates working on Communication and Technology to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis. Moreover, the doctoral consortium will provide the opportunity to meet experts as well as fellow PhD candidates from different backgrounds working on related topics.
During the consortium, students will be invited to present their work, following which they will receive feedback from their fellow students and faculty participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, one faculty participant will be assigned to respond in detail to each proposal. Besides the presentations of proposals, there will also be discussion of other topics such as ethics, research methods, publishing the thesis, and positioning one’s work for the job market. There will also be a variety of social activities in the program.
Submission Process
Applicants must be advanced to candidacy, and have their dissertation proposal topic. Ideally, students will be in the early stages of their dissertation, where feedback would be helpful in refining and advancing their work. To apply, students must submit a proposal describing their research.
- Submissions must be related to the working area of the Communication and Technology Division of ICA. A description of the division’s primary interests can be found in the last section of this call.
- Proposals must identify the significant problems in the field of research, briefly outline current knowledge of the problem domain, and clearly formulate a research question.
- Proposals must outline the proposed research approach, methods, and results obtained so far.
- Submissions should not exceed 6000 words, should include name and affiliation of the PhD candidate
- Applications should be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the advisor stating how the PhD candidate can benefit from participation in the Doctoral Consortium.
The proposal and letter of recommendation must be submitted as one .pdf document and sent as an attachment in an email to IcaCatDc@GW.UTwente.nl. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2010. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the members of the program committee based on significance of research, specificity of research topic and/or questions, clarity of writing, and degree to which student can benefit from expert guidance and feedback. Notification of acceptance will be on April 1, 2010.
The Communication and Technology Division within ICA
The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division is primarily concerned with the role played by information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the process of communication. It is committed to enhancing theory and methodology pertaining to adoption, usage, effects, and policy of ICTs. Areas of research include human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, mobile communication, and other technologically mediated social interaction and networking in all contexts (interpersonal, group, organizational, societal/cultural) and at all levels of analyses. CAT invites papers that make an innovative and original contribution to our understanding of ICTs, with the primary focus on communication aspects of particular technological characteristics. Papers in which technology is not a specific object of investigation but is instead the context or backdrop for a communication study should be directed to other ICA Divisions.
As CAT, the Doctoral Consortium welcomes papers that follow any and all disciplinary approaches (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and policy studies, among others) and all methodological orientations (quantitative, qualitative, critical, cultural, historical, legal, and institutional, among others). Papers may be purely theoretical or empirical or methodological.
Program Committee
Dr. Benjamin Detenber, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. James Katz, Rutgers University, USA
Dr. Miriam Metzger, University of California, USA
Dr. Ron E. Rice, University of California, USA
Dr. S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dr. Lidwien van de Wijngaert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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