CFP AusWeb96-2nd Australian World Wide Web Conference, 7-9 July '96
Roger Debreceny
rdebrece at scu.edu.au
Thu Dec 14 00:01:40 EST 1995
Call for Papers - AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference
Call for Papers - AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference
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Introduction
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This is the formal Call for Papers and Posters for AusWeb96 which will be
the premier Web conference in Australia in 1996. Organised by Southern
Cross University it will be held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on
Queensland's Gold Coast from 7-9th July 1996. AusWeb96 is endorsed by the
International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) as a Regional
World Wide Web conference. The best paper from AusWeb96 will go on to the
IW3C2 Committee for consideration for presentation at its next World
conference.
As this is a call for papers posting we won't go into all the details of
AusWeb96. Full details are available at the home page:
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/
Suffice it to say that all the best features of AusWeb95 will be repeated
at AusWeb96 including most importantly the friendly and inclusive nature of
the conference. We are organising a program for accompanying significant
others and especially for accompanying children .. why have a conference on
Queensland's holiday playground if you can't bring the kids? And at
AusWeb96, we're looking forward to welcoming guests from around the world.
If you did not make AusWeb95, the papers and Virtual Edition are still
available at:
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/virtual_edition/
We have already confirmed seven (count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Seven!)
world class keynote speakers. We have a suite of pre-conference workshops
that caters for all tastes including Bebo White from the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center sharing his more than 20 years of experience in
preparing online and hypertext documentation as well as a range of hands-on
workshops on subjects such as Java programming presented by Bond
University. Plan on coming to the Gold Coast for the Saturday and Sunday
morning prior to the official conference opening to participate in these
specially selected workshops.
There will be special interest group meetings during and a higher education
seminar immediately following the conference. A full physical exhibition
will accompany the conference coupled with a virtual exhibition and the
staff/student team from the Centre for Media Communications at SCU will
once again be bringing us the Virtual Exhibition on the Web.
We're even meeting on Monday night to link up with University of Wales'
Centre for Australian Studies conference, "Australian Studies and the
Shrinking Periphery: Surfing the Net for Australia" to chat about how the
rest of the world sees Australia through the lens of the Web
<http://www.acs.lamp.ac.uk/oz/symp96.html>.
Conference Themes
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There are four theme areas at AusWeb96 each with their own theme editors
who are supported by a large team of referees:
o Education and Learning <aw96edu at scu.edu.au>
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The editor is Michael Nott, Director of the Science Multimedia Unit at the
University of Melbourne.
o Business Opportunities <aw96bus at scu.edu.au>
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The editors are Adrian Vanzyl from Monash Medical Informatics and Peter
Gilmour from the Syme School of Marketing in the Faculty of Commerce and
Economics at Monash University.
o Technical Futures <aw96tech at scu.edu.au>
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The editors are Paul Thistlewaite, of the Co-operative Research Centre for
Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) at the Australian National
University and Helen Ashman of the Defence Science and Technology
Organisation.
o Media, Cultural and Community Issues <aw96cals at scu.edu.au>
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The editor is Keng Chua, Head of the Centre for Media Communications and
Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Southern Cross University and
Editor of the AusWeb95 Virtual Edition.
AusWeb96 seeks, then, to appeal to all sectors of the broad Web community.
This is *not* just a "how to make money from the Web" or a "techies'
delight" conference. This is the "thinking persons" Web conference! ;-) :-)
Full Papers
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AusWeb96 seeks papers which will appeal to any sector within the Web
community. Papers can be highly technical or they can be think pieces. Just
as long as they are interesting, well researched and have not been
published elsewhere. They should be no more than 5,000 words in length.
Full papers will be refereed upon submission of complete papers in final
draft stage or extended abstracts of not less than 2,500 words. All
submitted papers will be refereed for relevance, quality and originality.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings on the Web,
on paper and on CD-ROM. A paper may only be submitted to one of the
Conference's themes. The decision of the theme editor(s) is final.
Papers or extended abstracts are due by no later than 1 March 1996 (early
submission is encouraged) and decisions will be made by 1 April with the
completed papers being required on 1 May. The papers will be available on
the Web on 1 June.
AusWeb96, like AusWeb95, takes a different approach to the sessions at
which papers are discussed. Because the papers will have been up on the
Internet for more than a month before the conference, there is less need to
discuss the paper and the findings and therefore more opportunities for
in-depth discussion. We tried this at AusWeb95 and it worked very well and
we're planning a similar approach in 1996. So presentations are short - and
there is plenty of time for discussion and for questions and answers. There
will, of course, be Web connectivity in each of the rooms at Conrad
Jupiters along with excellent projection facilities.
Posters
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Posters are also sought for AusWeb96. Poster sessions will be conducted at
a computer which will be connected to the Internet, so that conference
attendees who are interested in the particular topic can talk with the
poster presenter one to one.
Poster sessions are particularly useful for reporting work-in-progress, an
exciting and different Web site or an unusual application of Web
technology.
Posters will be refereed upon submission of abstracts. Accepted posters
will be published in the Conference Proceedings on the Web and on CD-ROM.
The final day for submission of posters is 1 May 1996, with decisions by 15
May and the final poster due by 1 June. We will, however, guarantee a
decision on a poster in two weeks from whenever it is submitted. So you
don't need to wait until 1 May to submit.
More Information on Submission of Papers and Posters
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Details on submission of papers and posters as well as on all other aspects
of the conference are available at the AusWeb96 home page at:
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/
Or email the editorial team at <aw96edit at scu.edu.au> or <ausweb96 at scu.edu.au>
Referees, Moderators, Session Chairs
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The editorial team is interested in receiving expressions of interest to
act as paper and poster referees and moderators and chairs of the sessions
at the conference. Please email to <aw96edit at scu.edu.au>
Contact Details
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The joint organisers for AusWeb96 at Southern Cross are Allan Ellis
<aellis at scu.edu.au> and Roger Debreceny <rdebrece at scu.edu.au>. Allan's
phone number is +61 66 20 3611. Roger is on study leave at the Haas School of
Business at the University of California at Berkeley until June 1996 and is
at +1 510 526 7218 or email <rdebrece at scu.edu.au>.
The conference manager for AusWeb96 is Norsearch Conference Services. The
conference manager is Ms Julie Burton. Julie has conference brochures printed
for AusWeb96 - email her to have some sent to you.
Julie's contact details are:
Email: jburton at scu.edu.au
Mail: AusWeb96, Norsearch Limited, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
Phone +61 66 203000 Fax +61 66 221954.
About The Gold Coast and Conrad Jupiters
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The Gold Coast is South-East Queensland's holiday playground with 50km of
beaches including the internationally known Surfers Paradise. So AusWeb96
is truly being held at NetSurfers Paradise! Apart from the delights of the
beach and the surf there are a wide range of other activities that the Gold
Coast offers including mountain walks in the hinterland, the Currumbin
Nature Reserve and four theme parks. And of course the Gold Coast is known
for its many fine restaurants. The city also has an excellent arts centre.
A couple of URLs to check out, are the City of the Gold Coast:
http://www.nt.com.au/gccc/
and Gold Coast Tourist Information at:
http://www.reflections.com.au/GoldCoast/
Just south of the Gold Coast is the magnificent Tweed Valley, dominated by
Mount Warning and surrounded by the World Heritage listed Border Ranges National
Park.
Maximum daytime temperatures during July are typically 18C and we have
lovely sunny days during this period.
The Conrad Jupiters is a five+ star hotel and the Coast's only casino. It has
excellent self-contained conference and exhibition facilities which provide a
fitting venue for AusWeb96.
So by coming to AusWeb96 we can cater not only for your need to participate
in Australia's premier, most in-depth Web conference, but also for your
recreational interests be they the great outdoors, visiting one of the
theme parks with your kids, the beach, dining or the arts.
Looking forward to seeing you on the Gold Coast in July '96!!
Roger Debreceny
on behalf of Allan Ellis and Julie Burton
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