-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ICEC] International Forum on 'Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity' - 27-28 April 2005 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:21:46 -0000 From: Marco Combetto marcomb@microsoft.com To: icec@listserver.tue.nl

Dears ICEC subscribers,

This mail is about a call for abstracts that *Microsoft Research Cambridge* is organizing. The deadline for abstracts is the 15 Feb.

Best Regards

Marco Combetto Research Program Manager

External Research Office Microsoft Research Limited mobile +39 348 224 7008 marcomb@microsoft.com mailto:marcomb@microsoft.com

*TITLE:* International Forum on ‘Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity’ - 27–28 April 2005

*DESCRIPTION:*

OVERVIEW:

Computers continue to become smaller, cheaper, more powerful, ubiquitous and more diverse and yet for many computing is still associated with the desktop device. As a consequence, the potential of computing to shape, improve and change the social, cultural and creative fabric of society is limited.

This Forum seeks to understand how computing will be able to affect the way we all live, work, learn and play. By thinking about computing for all rather than some, for the old as well as the young, for those in remote locations as well as those centrally located, and by designing for those with needs very different from those of our own, the Forum hopes to help define how computing and computers could become a ‘natural resource’ for any and all, wherever they and whatever they do. Achieving this will require not just a shift in people’s perceptions, of course, but radical changes in the design of computing which the Forum also wants to define: from the WIMP interface to ‘applianceness’, from mains-powered to wind-up, from the office to robotic, from graphical to tangible.

CALL FOR PARTECIPATION:

We are inviting you to send in an abstract of your paper (maximum 1000 words) for presentation at the Forum. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. Paper abstracts and papers can be sent online via https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/LessIsMore2005/. In case of questions related to the submission of papers and paper abstracts, please mail camlim@microsoft.com.

Informal proceedings consisting of the accepted paper abstracts will be distributed at the conference.

Accepted paper abstracts will be invited after the conference for a full paper to appear in the formal proceedings. These are planned to be published as a volume in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (subject to their approval). All such full papers will be reviewed before being accepted for publication.

*Program committee*

* Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Université Paris-Sud – France * Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge – UK * Luca Chittaro, University of Udine – Italy * Gillian Crampton Smith, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea – Italy * Bill Gaver, Royal College of Art London – UK * Richard Harper, Microsoft Research (Program chair) * Kristina Höök, Swedish Institute of Computer Science – Sweden * Kenton O’Hara, HP Labs – UK * Kenneth Olausson, Interactive Institute – Sweden * Andrew Monk, University of York – UK * Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham – UK * Kurt Schoenmaekers, Microsoft Research * Ken Wood, Microsoft Research (Program chair)

URL:

http://research.microsoft.com/ero/IEP/CfPapers.aspx

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