i3 Spring Days 23-25 April 2001 Porto, Portugal This year's motto: (Inter)facing tomorrow

A workshop cluster and get together with i3 members held under the auspices of the FET Long-Term Research pro-active initiative in intelligent information interfaces, (i3 for short), and the i3 initiative on experimental school environments, (i3 ESE)

Information on the i3 Spring Days

• 1. About the i3 Spring Days
• 2. Location and date
• 3. Tentative Programme
• 4. Poster Exhibition
• 5. Participation & Registration
• 6. Organisation Committee & Address for further information
• 7. Hotel and Travel Information

1. About the i3 Spring Days

The i3 Spring Days stand for a cluster of workshops with the aim of bringing together people who are interested in exploring new relationships between technology, people and design. The target audience for the Spring Days includes people from academia, industry, and end-user organisations with an interest in design, education, information and communication technolgies. The Spring Days series has been initiated by i3 - the European Initiative on Intelligent Information Interfaces - back in 1999 with the organisation of the: Spring Days'99 and Spring Days'00. The Spring Days2001 will continue the policy of openness and the seek for diversity. In particular some of the workshops aim to attract people involved in the EU's new initiative on The Disappearing Computer. However, following the tradition of the previous Spring Days most of the workshops will seek for contributions and participants from the global research community.

More information on the i3 initiative an be found under:

• i3net
• i3 CI projects
• i3 ESE projects
• The Disappearing Computer

2. Location and Date

• Date: 23-25 April, 2001


• Location:
  

  Casa Diocesana de Vilar Porto, Portugal

3. Tentative Spring Days 2001 Programme

The following workshops have been scheduled for the Spring Days 01 (Monday 23 April - Wednesday 25 April). Links to the descriptions of the individual workshops will appear soon on this page.

• List of Workshops
  
  • W1: Workshop on Aesthetic Expression of Feelings
    (April 23, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W2: Workshop on Learning issues of moving from GUI (Graphics User Interface) to PUI (Perceptual User Interface)
    (April 25, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W3: Workshop on Moving between the physical and digital: exploring and developing new forms of mixed- reality user experience
    (April 24, half day afternoon)
  
  
  
  • W4: Workshop on Cognitive versus physical disappearance
    (April 25, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W5: Workshop on Continuity in Future Computing Systems
    (April 23-24, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W6: Workshop on Web based Platforms for Cooperative Learning
    (April 24, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W8: Workshop on Digital Technology Triggering Creativity
    (April 25, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W9: Workshop on IT Education for Girls - Goals, Strategies and Experiences
    (April 23, full-day)
  
  
  
  • W11: Workshop on "Look Ma - No Hands ..." no mouse, and no computer?..... A new expressive experiential interface using the Personal Interactive Communication System (Personics)
    (April 24, half-day, morning)
  
  
  
  • W12: Workshop on Intelligent educational and cultural (archi-)Textures
    (April 23, half-day afternoon)
    
    (The workshops W7, W10, and W13 earlier announced on this page have been cancelled by their organisers)
  
  
  

• Workshop Schedule
  
  Monday April 23.
  
  
  • Welcome Reception at the conference site
  
  
  Tuesday April 24.
  
  
  • Conference Dinner to be served on board of the Princesa do Douro. Boat departs of Cais de Gaia at 19:30.
  
  
  Wednesday April 25
  
  
  The diagrams only indicate the allocated time slots for the workshops. The programs for the Individual workshops will be set up by the responsible workshop organisers. For details, please contact them directly.

4. Poster Exhibition

All i3 projects and the new Disappearing Computer projects are invited to display posters during the Spring Days. Just send an indication of interest to rist@dfki.de to reserve some display space for your project.

5. Participation & Registration

Workshops at the Spring Days are intended to provide opportunities for in-depth meetings and informal discussions about common research topics across i3 projects. To account for the interdisciplinary and diverse nature of the i3 community, there is no single format for a workshop. It is basically up to the workshop organisers what they want to do at their workshop, whom they want to invite for participation and how they run it in order to make it a success. However, workshops shall be open to the global research community. To achieve openness, organisers are asked to circulate a public call for papers/participation. Furthermore, during the Spring Days, any workshop shall be open to other Spring Days participants who may occasionally sit in for a while as "silent ghosts" even if not particularly invited to a workshop. This concept of openness has proven useful at the last Spring Days as it helped to make people learn about what others are doing and to create new links between projects.

Registration

• All attendees of workshops must register for the i3 Spring Days 2001. The registration fee is 130 Euros covering coffee breaks and lunches on 23-25 April, a welcome reception on 23 April, and a conference dinner on 24 April. Please note: For payments by credit card or banktransfer there is an extra fee to cover the transaction costs.
• You can register now by using our online Registration Form

6. Organisation Committee & Contact for further information

The members of the Spring Days Organisation Committee (SDOC) are:

• Thomas Rist (Conference Chair)
  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany
  e-mail: rist@dfki.de



• Alan Munro

Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
e-mail: a.munro@dcs.napier.ac.uk


• Secundino Correia (Local Arrangements)
  NOTINFOR - Centro de Novas Tecnologias da Informacão, Coimbra, Portugal
  e-mail: secundino@cnotinfor.pt



• Pedro Pinto (Local Arrangements)
  NOTINFOR - Centro de Novas Tecnologias da Informacão, Coimbra, Portugal
  e-mail: pedropinto@esoterica.pt



• Nanett Mosumgaard (i3net Manager)
  i3net, Odense, Denmark
  e-mail: namo@nis.sdu.dk

7. Hotel and Travel Information

Address for further information