[Indic-computing-users] HOIT'07 on ICT for the Next Billion in IIT-Madras (fwd)

[Hema A M. <he...@la...>]

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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:42:23 +0530
From: Timothy A. Gonsalves <ta...@te...>
To: ta...@te...
Subject: HOIT'07 on ICT for the Next Billion in IIT-Madras

Greetings:

The biennial IFIP conference on Home-Oriented IT (HOIT) will be held
in IIT-Madras during 22-25th August 2007.  The theme of this
conference is "Home/Community Oriented ICT for the Next Billion".  The
conference is being held in India as we expect that a substantial part
of the "next billion" will be in Indians.  The conference co-chairs
are Prof. Alladi Venkatesh (Univ. of California, Irvine) and
Prof. T.A. Gonsalves (IIT-Madras).

Please see http://www.hoit2007.com for details.

I request you to submit papers and participate in the conference.  The
paper submission deadline is 30th November.  The topics of interest
are:

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 =1B%G=E2=80=93=1B%@ 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

 				          Regards
 					     TAG
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 			Timothy A. Gonsalves
Professor & Head
Dept of Computer Science & Engg
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras - 600 036, India

Phone: +91-44-2257-4353/50 (o) -6353 (r) -4352 (fax)
E-mail: ta...@te...  Web: http://www.cse.iitm.ernet.in
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