[Asis-l] HICSS-38, January 3-6, 2005

[Barbara Kwasnik]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Genres of Digital Documents
Part of the Digital Documents Track

Thirty-eighth Annual
HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES

January 3 - 6, 2005
Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort
on the Big Island of Hawaii

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 
Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and 
http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ 



We invite papers for a Minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents. 
Document genres are communicative actions with a socially recognized 
communicative purpose and common aspects of form (such as 
newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Such genres are situated in 
complex communicative practices; they are anchored in specific 
institutions and processes and can be equally applicable to physical 
as well as electronic documents. Recognizing the genre of a document 
is useful because it makes communications more easily recognizable 
and understandable by recipients and more easily generated by 
senders. Thus, the study of genres, besides enhancing our 
understanding of information searching and use, may also provide 
insights into organizational or community structures.

As well, it is becoming increasingly clear that the successful use of 
digital media requires the emergence of new or transformed genres of 
digital communication. In a digital environment, documents have 
functionality as well as form and content, but in many ways the 
contextual clues by which functionality can be ascertained are 
missing. For this reason, genre provides a certain fixity in 
communication and becomes increasingly important in providing users a 
resource for the interpretation of the content, role, and function of 
a digital document.


Suggested topics for the Minitrack include:

o Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form
o The evolution of genres of digital documents
o Genre theory and its application to digital documents
o Emergent genres
o Investigations of genre in use
o Analyses of particular document genres
o Genres in digital search and classification
o Genres in non-text digital documents
o Genres for electronic commerce
o Designing systems in support of and using genre


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
March 31, 2004    	Authors contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance 
and indication of appropriate
		content.

June 15, 2004	Authors submit full papers to the appropriate 
Minitrack following format and
		submission instructions on the web site.

August 15, 2004   	Minitrack Chairs send Acceptance/Rejection 
notices to Authors.

October 1, 2004   	Authors submit Final Version of paper 
electronically to publisher.   At least
		one author of each paper must register by this date 
to attend the conference
		to present the paper.

December 1, 2004	Deadline to guarantee your hotel room 
reservation at the conference rate.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously 
published, or currently submitted elsewhere.
* Consult the conference website for the listing and description of 
Minitracks for HICSS-38.
* Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and 
verification of appropriate content.
* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair.   If 
unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the 
Track Chair for guidance. 
* Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and 
submission instructions found on the HICSS website.  Note:  All 
papers will be submitted in double column publication format and 
limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references.


HICSS-38 CONFERENCE TRACKS
* Collaboration Systems and Technology - Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker;
		E-mail:  jnunamaker at cmi.arizona.edu;
		Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bob at GroupSystems.com 
* Complex Systems - Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1 at cornell.edu 
* Decision Technologies for Management - Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: 
drdolk at nps.navy.mil 
* Digital Documents and the Media - Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: 
shepherd at cs.cal.ca                        
* Emerging Technologies -	Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: 
sprague at hawaii.edu 
* Information Technology in Health Care - Chair: William Chismar;
		E-mail: chismar at cba.hawaii.edu 
* Internet & the Digital Economy - Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: 
david.king at jda.com 
		Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis at indiana.edu 
* Organizational Systems & Technology - Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: 
hwatson at terry.uga.edu 
* Software Technology - Chair: Gul Agha; E-mail: agha at cs.uiuc.edu 

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, 
computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both 
theory and practice.   Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, 
tutorial or descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a peer 
referee process and those selected for presentation will be published 
in the Conference Proceedings.  Submissions must not have been 
previously published.

For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at: 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 
or the mirror sites   : http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and 
http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ 


CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION
Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair                           
Email:  sprague at hawaii.edu 

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email:  hicss at hawaii.edu 

Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis at indiana.edu 

2005 CONFERENCE VENUE
Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii)
425 Waikoloa Beach Drive
Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738
Tel: 1-808-886-1234
Fax: 1-808-886-2900
www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com 


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Kevin Crowston
Syracuse University			    Phone:  +1 (315) 443-1676
School of Information Studies		    Fax:    +1 (315) 443-5806
4-206 Centre for Science and Technology	    EMail:  crowston at syr.edu 
Syracuse, NY   13244-4100   USA		    Web:    http://crowston.syr.edu/