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                   Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities

                    Second Call for Participation
                        (Deadline Extended!)

          September 16-18, Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan

Description of the meeting

Digital city projects--building platforms to support community
networking--are currently going on world-wide. European and American
cities, as well as Asian cities, are creating digital meeting places
and information resources for local residents and remote visitors. For
example, here in Kyoto, programmers, designers, and social scientists
are all working together to build a digital Kyoto
(http://digitalcity.gr.jp). This online city will include live sensory
links to Kyoto itself, explorable 3-d versions of some locations in
Kyoto, and other helpful features.

The aim of the Kyoto workshop on Digital Cities is to encourage
activity in this domain, by bringing together people from computer
science and social science whose work concerns digital cities, to
discuss their work-in-progress. We hope this gathering will be a
fruitful and enjoyable meeting of minds, full of discussion and ideas
about how to create and evaluate the next generation of digital
cities. Some topics we hope will be discussed include: successes and
design challenges of currently implemented digital cities; issues of
locally-oriented versus globally-oriented resources in digital cities
and related cross-cultural challenges; interface design strategies for
digital cities, such as 3-d spatial representations; integration of
real-world live data into digital cities; and how to encourage and
support robust and diverse user populations in digital cities.

The meeting consists of a one-day symposium and a two-day workshop.
The workshop will be a two-day combination of presentations and group
discussion of key issues in digital city research, with some time for
exploration of the city of Kyoto itself. The workshop will follow a
one-day symposium on September 16
(http://www.digitalcity.gr.jp/presentations/project_poster.html).
Workshop attendees are requested to participate the symposium.

This symposium is open to the public, and includes invited speakers
and panels related to the digital city theme. Currently the symposium
speaker list includes representatives of Virtual Helsinki and De
Digitale Stad of Amsterdam, Community Network of Urbana-Champaign
as well as a Digital City Kyoto project member.

To help ensure a discussion-oriented atmosphere, the number of invited
workshop attendees will be limited to around 30. For workshop
presenters who come from overseas, hotel costs (4 nights
from September 15)  including food will be covered. Furthermore,
fairly large support for airfare is available. Send your request to
workshop co-chairs when submitting your paper.

Submission guidelines and recommendations

Professionals who have made significant contributions to the meeting
topic are invited to submit a paper for consideration for the
workshop. We invite you to submit a paper of up to 5000 words in
length. All papers and discussion results will be published as a
Springer-Verlag Computer Science Lecture Note.

Some possible topics are listed below, though we welcome other topics
that are related to the meeting theme:

  Digital City Experiments
  Community Networking Experiments
  Social Interaction in Digital Environments and/or Cities
  Cross-Cultural Issues in Developing Digital City Resources
  Supporting Communities in Digital Environments and/or Cities
  3D Interfaces for Digital Environments and/or Cities
  Organizing Web and Real-time Data for Digital Cities
  Agents and Multi-Agent Technologies for Digital Cities

Submit three (3) hard copies of your full paper written in English by
July 1, 1999 to the following address. Surface mail and email
addresses, and phone and fax numbers should be included for all
contributing authors.

Katherine Isbister
NTT Open Lab
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun,
Kyoto 619-0237
JAPAN

Please also send the title and abstract of your paper via e-mail by
June 1, 1999 to help speed up the review process, to:
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Selection process

Submitted papers will be reviewed by program co-chairs,
and all authors will be notified of the status of their submission by
July 15, 1999.

All those who are accepted for the workshop should plan to attend both
the workshop (September 17-18) and the one-day symposium, on September
16, which will kick off the Kyoto Digital Cities Meeting.

Important dates:

Deadline for receipt of title and abstract by email: June 1, 1999
Deadline for receipt of 3 hard copies of the full paper: July 1, 1999
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 1999
Deadline for camera-ready paper: August 15, 1999
Meeting: September 16-18, 1999
Deadline for camera-ready post-proceedings paper: November 1, 1999

Meeting program

The official language will be English. The tentative structure of the
meeting is as follows:

Sep 16: Symposium

   9:00 - 17:30 Invited talk
  18:00 - 20:00 Reception

Sep 17: Workshop

   9:00 - 12:00 Presentations
  afternoon     Excursion to Kyoto Historical Places
  20:00 - 22:00 Free discussion

Sep 18: Workshop

   9:00 - 11:00 Presentations
  11:30 - 14:30 Group discussion
  15:00 - 16:00 Presentations
  16:00 - 17:00 Summary

Workshop co-chairs:

  Katherine Isbister (NTT, Japan) [log in to unmask]
  Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) [log in to unmask]

Workshop participants (including person under coordinating):

  Architecture and Urban Planning
    Bill Mitchell (MIT, USA)
  Digital City Amsterdam (http://www.dds.nl/)
    Peter Van den Besselaar (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  Vrtual Helsinki (http://www.hel.fi/infocities/)
    Risto Linturi (Helsinki Arena 2000, Finland)
  Digital City Kyoto (http://www.digitalcity.gr.jp/)
    Jun-ichi Akahani (NTT, Japan)
  Digital City Antwerp (http://www.dma.be/)
    Bruno Peeters (City of Antwerp, Belgium)
  Digital City Urbana-Champaign - PrairieNet/IKNOW community networking
    Noshir Contractor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Digital City Shanghai
    Sheng Huanye (Shanghai JiaoTong University, Chaina)
  Community Networking (http://www.naima.com/)
    Amy Jo Kim (Naima, USA)

Workshop Sponsors:

  NTT Communication Science Laboratories
  Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University

For further information, please contact workshop co-chairs.

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