NEW Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
William McIver, Jr., Ph.D., Senior Research Officer, People-Centred Technologies | NRC Information and Communications
Technologies Portfolio, National Research Council, Canada

Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Gunilla Bradley, Professor Em, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Diane Whitehouse, Chair of IFIP WG 9.2 on Social Accountability and Computing, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK

For the ICT, Society and Human Beings 2012 conference, we especially encourage contributions on the following four topics:
- Life Role and ICT
• Professional role
• Private role
• Citizen's role

- Quality of Life and ICT
- ICT and Effects on Humans
- Actions for reaching the Good Information Society

The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this
conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human
and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges – especially planning for
handling the latter - are encouraged.

Today, computer science and ICT-related disciplines are working more and more together with various behavioural and social sciences
including child psychology and developmental psychology. For this reason, the conference pays attention to societal changes, global and
more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and
changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a
Good Information Society.

In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies,
broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may
all be presented.

A theoretical framework which outlines the conference approach can be found under “Call for papers” in the conference web site.

NEW Get the Conference Poster (1,44 MB in PDF)

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Conference Official Language: English

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.
 

Conference contact: secretariat@ict-conf.org