CSLI Special Event
Using Action and Technology to Build Community
Thursday 16 October, 10:00 AM -- 4:00 PM
Organizer: Keith
Devlin (CSLI
Senior Researcher)
devlin@csli.stanford.edu
A limited supply of lunches and drinks will be available for purchase
between Sessions 1 and 2.
Session 1: 10:15 - 11:45 AM
Creating Community by Defining the Human-Technology Boundary
Associate Professor of Communication and CSLI
nass@leland.stanford.edu
Abstract
It is increasingly difficult to draw clear distinctions
between humans and computers. This talk will focus
on the resulting problems and opportunities for
defining communities.
About the Speaker
Clifford Nass is an associate professor of Communication
at Stanford University, with appointments in Symbolic
Systems, Sociology, and Science, Technology,
and Society. He is an internationally recognized expert in the
area of social-psychological effects of human-computer interaction.
He is co-author (with Byron Reeves) of "The
Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media
Like Real People and Places," as well as over 30 articles on
human- computer interaction and statistical methodology. Nass (and
Reeves)'s research has been the basis for a number of new media
products for companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, OMRON, and
General Magic.
Session 2: 12:00 - 1:45 Cordura 100
Using Action to Build Community
Julia Rowntree
Director of the LIFT
Business Arts Forum, UK
lift@mail.easynet.co.uk
Abstract
The talk will explore the way that drama, participation and
celebration help build communities and understanding
across many boundaries.
About the Speaker
Julia Rowntree is Director of the LIFT (London International Festival of
Theatre) Business Arts Forum in the UK. Since 1981, LIFT has
brought over 3000 artists from 60 different countries to theaters,
outdoor locations and diverse communities across the UK capital. The
LIFT Education program brings international artists together with
young people in schools and is currently coordinating projects in
Japan and South Africa. The Business Arts Forum is a pioneering
experiment in business education, exploring cultural issues affecting
today's workplace via events in the Festival.
Rowntree is currently touring the USA as a Winston
Churchill Fellow. Among institutions she is visiting in the
Bay Area are Global Business Network and Xerox PARC.
Session 3: 2:15 - 3:45 Cordura 100
Using Technology to Build Community
Manager of Multimedia
Communications, BICC plc,
UK
DavidLeevers@compuserve.com
Abstract
The "Cycle of Cognition" is a framework for integrating
natural and electronic communications. This talk will
report on work in progress in using the cycle to create an
information environment that encourages a sense of
community in the heterogeneous, distributed and rapidly
evolving teams typical of the construction sector.
Workplace studies in a major construction project are
helping to clarify how the cycle can provide a sense of
context for communications actions. The cycle is a
promising example of how situation theory can be used to
support the design of communications and information
services.
The very spatial nature of the construction process and of
new collaboration tools such as Virtual Reality is proving to
be a powerful catalyst for understanding the relationship
between the "Inner Space" of mental models, the physical
space of the 3D environment and the social space shared
with other people.
About the Speaker
David
Leevers is Manager, Multimedia
Communications at BICC plc, a
major UK based construction and cable making company. He is currently
leading two European Community projects, CICC and RESOLV, that
are exploring how the Web, Augmented Reality, reconstructed reality
and common artifacts can be used to improve collaboration and
effectiveness in construction and manufacturing.
Emma Pease
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