Global Call for Papers: http://www.hsi-conf.org
The Human.Society@Internet Conference is the 4th International Conference, which will be held 5-6 July in Seoul, Korea. This Conference aims to provide a forum for discussions and exchange of ideas and information by Internet-related technologists, social scientists, business people, and government policy makers on the impacts of the Internet on humans and the society, solutions of the ill effects of the Internet, and trends in mainstream and emerging Internet applications.
During the past several years, the Internet era witnessed the boom and subsequent bust of irrational dot-com-based economy, and the steady emerging and establishment of rational Internet-based economy. There is a growing number of major Internet-based business enterprises, (in the US alone) such as Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon, Expedia, Monster, etc. Governments around the world are now using the Internet to govern and serve their citizens. Cyber education is now becoming an important part of education. People, both old and young, male and female, are increasingly relying on the Internet to get all sorts of information they need; to read and post opinions on digital newspapers; to entertain themselves by downloading music and movies; to make routine transactions, such as paying bills, trading stocks, buying movie tickets, making reservations for airline flights, hotel rooms, and rental cars; etc.
Existing Internet applications are becoming more sophisticated and scalable. Advances in wireless communications and miniaturization of computers now allow people to access the Internet using handheld devices or electronic appliances. Advances in communications technologies are increasing the communication bandwidth, allowing the development of a wide variety of applications. As a result of all these, many new and innovative applications are emerging (such as e-medicine, social communities), some good and some perhaps not so good (such as Internet-based gambling).
At the same time, however, the world has been increasingly suffering through numerous negative byproducts of the widespread uses of the Internet, including spam, viruses and worms, phishing, hacking, denial of service attacks, e-commerce frauds, digital piracy, invasion of privacy, identify thefts, seemingly disproportionate influence on policy making and politics by a small but vocal and active minority, abusive and boorish behaviors of many people who post opinions, exposure of unsavory things such as pornography to children, bad websites such as suicide sites, etc.
Government, industry, and civic groups have started addressing many of these negative byproducts of the Internet era. Solutions include lawsuits against law breakers, legislating new laws or changing existing laws, new hardware and software technologies, international agreements, business models that accept certain new realities but encourage law-abiding behaviors, mass education, etc.
With the above "Internet scenery" as backdrop, the Human.Society@Internet International Conference aims to provide a forum for discussions and exchange of ideas and information by Internet-related technologists, social scientists, business people, and government policy makers on the impacts of the Internet on humans and the society, solutions of the ill effects of the Internet, and trends in mainstream and emerging Internet applications.
The objective of this Conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and research results among professionals and students interested in the impact of the Internet on humans and the society. The focus is to discuss the issues and solutions to the possible ill effects of the Internet, and the issues and solutions to supporting the emerging applications of the Internet that have broad consequences on humans and the society.
We are seeking original, unpublished papers that fall into the following and related areas:
Internet and Business
Internet and Governance
Internet Ethics and Legal Issues
Internet and Entertainment
Internet and Media
Ubiquity & Internet Communities
Internet & Education
The deadline for paper submission is January 14, 2006.
Paper submission is done exclusively via this conference website, using the submission guidelines. No previously published papers should be submitted. Each corresponding author will be notified by e-mail of the acceptance of the paper by March 18, 2006.
※ Paper submission page will be open by October 28, 2006.
The proceedings of the Conference will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
| January 14, 2006 | Paper Submissions Due | |
| March 18, 2006 | Notice of Acceptance/Rejection | |
| April 14, 2006 | Camera-Ready Papers Due | |
| July 5-6, 2006 | Conference |
For more information please contact the following email: yoonan@nida.or.kr
Won Kim
Samsung Electronics
Kwan-Ho Song
National Internet Development Agency of Korea
Tok-Wang Ling
National University of Singapore
Eui Kyeong Hong
University of Seoul
Kyung Chang Kim
Hongik University
Yunmook Nah
Dankook University
Hyunjoon Kwon
National Internet Development Agency of Korea
Wonjun Lee
Korea University
Do Nyun Kim
LG Electronics
Seungjoo Kim
Sungkyunkwan University
In Jun Choi
Postech
Byung Yeon Hwang
The Catholic University of Korea
Choonhwa Lee
Hanyang University
Ok-Ran Jeong
Seoul National University
Inhee Lee
Kyunghee University
Manpyo Hong
Ajou University
Woobok Yi
Samsung Electronics
Seung Ho Cho
Kangnam University
Dae Ho Kim
Mokwon University
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong
itqli@cityu.edu.hk
Elvis Leung
Hong Kong Hospital Authority
iteleung@cityu.edu.hk
Hong Va Leong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk
Wenyin Liu
City University of Hong Kong
csliuwy@cityu.edu.hk
Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hak Wai Chan, University of Hong Kong
Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong
Ben Kao, University of Hong Kong
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University
Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Man Hon Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Man Leung Wong, Lingnan University
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University
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