[Esug-list] Call for participation C5 2008 + SqueakParty

Thu Dec 20 14:27:44 CET 2007

Dear Smalltakers,

we organize C5 2008 for the first time in Europe (France). Please find  
enclosed the program just below.
The conference web site is here : http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-08/
Many squeakers and people of Viewpoints Research will attend this year.

We also plan to setup a SqueakParty the last day of the conference. A  
first program is available here :
http://community.ofset.org/index.php/C5_2008_Squeak_Party

Join us to have more fun with Squeak and Smalltalk !

Thank you,
--
Serge Stinckwich

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Sixth International Conference on
Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008)

January 14-16, 2008, Poitiers, France
http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-08/

Oraganized by
Kyoto University Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program:
Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating  
Society
European Smalltalk User Group
Espace Mendès France
Viewpoints Research Institute
Impara

SCOPE

Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive
in our information-based society. However, most users still function
as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge
society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human
activities to engage users in the active process of creating,
connecting, and collaborating together.

The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers,
educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing
and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration
processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work
as well as new work currently under development and for discussing
future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia
authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of
technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper
presentations. In addition, we are adding a workshop track for the
third day of the conference and are soliciting proposals for
interactive workshops.

For the first time hosted in Europe, this conference builds on the
successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences :
2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include but not limited to

- Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments
- User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects
- Technologies for creating educational environments
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and
Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL)
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and
virtual teaming
- Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments,
instrumentation, robots, and game playing
- Development of applications/content for non traditional learning
environments, e.g. mentoring, peer-to-peer, "teacherless"
environments (in developing countries), low cost and sustainable
technologies, e.g., $100 laptop
- Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher
education, system design by children, digital library and search
environment for children

KEYNOTES SPEAKERS
Keynote talks will be given on January 15th as a joint session with  
the "First Workshop on Field Informatics," which will be held at Kyoto  
University, Japan.

- The Language Grid for Intercultural Collaboration (on video  
conference), Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan

- Wendy E. Mackay, In Situ, INRIA, France

LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS

1. Graphical Tutoring of Message Passing to Promote Understanding of  
Java Framework, Atsuko Ueno, Hiroshi Taguchi, and Hiromitsu Shimakawa

2. Navigating Users Based on Estimation of Interest Vectors with  
Utility Function, Fumiko Harada, Yosuke Nakagawa, Hisashi Ishii,  
Hiroyuki Yamahara, and Hiromitsu Shimakawa

3. SophieScript - Active Content in Multimedia Documents, Jens Lincke,  
Robert Hirschfeld, Michael Rüger, Maic Masuch

4. Sophie, Michael Rüger, Bob Stein, Dan Visel

5. User-driven design of a flexible distance education environment –  
rationale, lessons learned and future implications, Magnus Löfstrand,  
Mathias Johanson

6. Promoting Acquisition of Programming Skills by Reuse of Active  
Diagrams , Hiroshi Taguchi, Fumiko Harada, Hiromitsu Shimakawa

7. iSTOA: Artefacts for mathematical interactive learning exercises,  
Hilaire Fernandes Thibault Carron Stéphane Ducasse

8. Generating Skip Delaunay Network for P2P Geocasting, Shinji Tsuboi,  
Tomoteru Oku, Masaaki Ohnishi, Shinichi Ueshima

9. Remote Opportunities: A Rethinking and Retooling, Yağız Onat  
Yazir, Katherine Gunion, Chris Pearson, Celina Gibbs, Anthony Estey,  
Steven Lonergan, Yvonne Coady

10. Toward A More Scalable End-User Scripting Language, Alessandro  
Warth, Takashi Yamamiya, Yoshiki Ohshima and Scott Wallace

11. Children as active partners: strategies for collaboration in  
spatial tasks through Virtual Worlds, Filipe Santos, Benjamim Fonseca,  
Leonel Morgado, Paulo Martins

12. Evaluation, Training and Education System for Autistic Children,  
Mehmet Karaboncuk, Mehmet Tansel Ersavas

13. V-Toys: an experiment in adding visual tiles to EToys, Pierre- 
André Dreyfuss, Serge Stinckwich

14. MediaDART: a decentralized framework for sharing multimedia  
content, Maurizio Agelli and Orlando Murru

15. SophieServer: The Future of Reading , Robert Hirschfeld, Michael  
Haupt, Michael Rueger, Patrick Bruenn, Ronny Esterluss, Norman Holz,  
Kerstin Knebel, and Robert Timm

16. Effects of Cultural Differences on Trust Reparation in a Computer  
Mediated Communication Setting, Shantanu Pai

17. Collaborative Guidance System using Multiple Gaze History and  
Shared Photograph Collection, Rieko Kadobayashi and Azman Osman Lim

18. The Group Mapping for Developing Collaborative 3D Blog System,  
Azman Osman Lim and Rieko Kadobayashi

19. A Map-Based Approach for Visualization of Information Exchange in  
Town Area, Shogo Noguchi and Hideyuki Takada

20. Construction of an Entailment Ontology for Enhancing Comprehension  
of Search, Nimit Pattanasri, Katsumi Tanaka

21. Information Sharing by Evacuee Collaboration for Assured  
Evacuation under Lack of Power Supply, Hisashi Ishii, Fumiko Harada  
and Hiromitsu Shimakawa

22. New Metaphors for Multimedia Authoring Environments, Christine  
Strothotte and Carola Zwick

23. Collaborators Search System in CSCL environment, Yacine Lafifi,  
Tahar Bensebaa, Alima Mérabti, Khadidja Bouhalit

24. Virtual Organization: An Overview, Mohammad Reza Nami

25. Toward a Model for Collaborative Gerontechnology: Connecting  
Elders and their Caregivers, Benay Dara-Abrams

26. Networking Technologies in the Developing World, Marc Fiuczynski,  
Rick McGeer, Jack Brassil, Larry Peterson and David P. Reed

On January 16th, a Squeak Party is organized as a part of this  
conference. Please visit : http://community.ofset.org/index.php/C5_2008_Squeak_Party 
  for details.

PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed during the
conference. The formal version of the proceedings will be published
by the IEEE Computer Society and sent to authors after the
conference. For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors
needs to attend the conference and give presentation, otherwise the
paper will not be included in the formal proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Co-Chairs
Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
Makoto Nagao, National Diet Library, Japan

Advisory Chairs
Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan

Conference Co-Chairs
Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA
Serge Stinckwich, GREYC, Universite' de Caen/CNRS, France

Program Co-Chairs
Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and  
Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan
Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs
Thierry Pasquier, Espace Mendes France, France
Jean-Francois Cerisier, University of Poitiers, France
Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France

Publicity and Publication Chair
Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Financial Chair
Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France

Program Committee
Noury Bouraqadi, École des Mines de Douai, France
Jean-Francois Cerisier, University of Poitiers, France
Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada
Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marc Fiuczynski, Princeton University, USA
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
Tsuneo Jozen, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
Ton Kalker, HP Labs, USA
Shinichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Pascal Leroux, Université du Maine, France
Julian Lombardi, Duke University, USA
Maic Masuch, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
Mark McCahill, Duke University, USA
John David Miller, Intel Corporation, USA
Shinya Nakagawa, HP Labs, Japan
Pierre Nonnon, Laboratoire de robotique pédagogique, Université de  
Montréal, Canada
Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
David P. Reed, MIT Media Lab/ HP Labs, USA
Martha Russell, Stanford University, USA
Phil Stenton, HP Labs, UK
Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan
Shin'ichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan