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Date posted: 07/02/2008 Amsterdam, Netherlands 22 - 24 July 2008 The effects of ICT on humans comes in focus in the conference but also the interaction between ICT ? Individual ? Society. Interaction and Effects - both are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects, feelings are all of interest. Computer Science and IT related disciplines work more and more together with various behavioural sciences: Cognitive effects and changes, Motivational and emotional changes, Organisational and institutional changes, Societal changes, Value changes and new lifestyles, experiences from Child psychology and Development psychology. In general all types of research strategies are encouraged and especially cross disciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses. Globalization and ICT - Globalization processes - Glocalization processes - Values, norms - Labour market (outsourcing,integration, mobility) - Universal access - Virtual worlds - Global villages - Rethinking economical and social theories - Human capital theory - Sustainability, Democracy - Global catastrophes - Vulnerability Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - ICT applications and systems contributing to desirable goals (see track below) Life environment and ICT - Psychosocial environment - Work environment/Work place: - Work content ? Work tasks - Organizational structure - Decision support systems - Human-human communication - Power structure-formal and informal - Leadership - Career patterns - Influence/participation - Working hours and salary/compensation - Work pace/work load Physical and ergonomic conditions - Learning and knowledge growth - Home Environment - Public Environment - Private Environment - Virtual Environment - Virtual (on-line) communities - Organisational Design and Management - Psychosocial work environment Life role and ICT - Citizen?s role - Professional role - Leadership role - Private role - Virtual roles - Home of the future - Mobile life - Role conflicts Effects on humans - Analyses of impact as well as technology contributing to desirable human qualities - Psychosocial impact - Life styles - Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging, autonomy, confidence) - Happiness and fun - Wellbeing and health - Dependency - Identity - Integrity - Trust ? security ? privacy - Addictiveness (games) - Availability - Motivation - Human memory - Cybersickness - Stress (over- and understimulation) - Workload - Fatigue - Love and Relationship - Skills and competencies: - Creativity - Problem solving - Social competence Actions for reaching the Good Information Society - Individual level - Community ( physical and virtual) level - Governmental level - International level - Civil society and social change communities - Design of societal systems - rethinking Desirable goals - Integration - Humanization - Reducing poverty - Bridging the digital gap - Freedom of expression - Democratization - E-cooperation - Peace - Sustainability - Wellbeing Health - Human welfare - Quality of life Perspectives - Social and psychosocial - Cross-cultural - Theoretical - Gender - Class - Rural ? urban - Multimodal - Economic - Ethical Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008 See the full Story via external site: www.ict-conf.org Most recent stories in this category (Conferences): 03/03/2017: ICME 2017 - Large Scale 3D Human Activity Analysis |
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