[Asis-l] ISIC2012 - Information Behaviour Conference in Tokyo, September 4-7

[Haidar Moukdad]

Posted on behalf of Elena Maceviciute.
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ISIC2012: The Information Behaviour Conference

Will take place in Tokyo, Keio University, Mita Campus on 4-7 September, 
2012.
After receiving several requests for the extension of the deadline for the 
papers the final date to submit them is January 24, 2012. The papers 
accepted for full-presentation will be considered for publication in 
Information Research (http://informationr.net/ir/author2.html).

Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 10, 2012. Please, submit 
your paper through the ISIC2012 paper submission site  at Notification of 
acceptance will be sent by March 10, 2012. Please, submit your paper through 
the ISIC2012 paper submission site at 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=isic2012

You can find the detailed list of the Conference topics and the details of 
paper submission on the ISIC 2012 site 
http://www.slis.keio.ac.jp/isic2012/cfp.html.
The deadline for doctoral workshop submission is 5th of March, 2012.

In addition ISIC 2012 includes Workshop on Teaching Information Behaviour 
(2-5 pm, 7 September 2012) organized by Karen E. Fisher, University of 
Washington; Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri. Everyone registered  for 
the ISIC 2012 Conference is invited to participate in the Workshop on 
Teaching Information Behaviour for the additional fee of 3,000 yen. For 
interested workshop participants, the following peer reviewed option is 
offered in which you discuss a teaching exemplum from your own portfolio: By 
March 23rd 2012, submit a 500-1000 word write-up of a teaching exemplum from 
your own portfolio. Authors who submit teaching exemplars will be notified 
of acceptance by April 30th 2012 with final versions due May 18th, 2012. To 
learn more about the workshop, please contact Karen E. Fisher 
(fisher at uw.edu) or Sanda Erdelez (erdelezs at misosuri.edu).

The key-note speakers for ISIC2012 are:

Ann Blandford is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at UCL. She leads 
research on how people interact with and make sense of information, and how 
technology can better support people's information needs. She has over 200 
international, peer-reviewed publications, including a Synthesis Lecture on 
"Interacting with Information".

Makiko Miwa is Professor of the Center of ICT and Distance Education of the 
Open University of Japan. She is a member of the Cognitive Research for 
Exploratory Search (CRES) project, a collaborative research project to 
investigate user's behavior and cognitive processes during various 
information seeking tasks on the web, and is interested in how people learn 
during web search processes in order to reflect it on the interface design 
and the evaluation of IR processes.

ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference intends to reflect 
interdisciplinary character of the area through attracting papers from 
researchers in all of these areas. The unifying characteristic, which we see 
as essential in developing a programme is the relationship between the needs 
or requirements of the information user, the means for the satisfaction of 
those needs and the uses to which those means are put in practice 
organizations or disciplines. Thus, papers that deal solely with 
technological aspects of system design, for example, will not be appropriate 
for the conference.

Prof. Elena Maceviciute
Secretary
ISIC Permanent Committee
Swedish School of Library and Information Science


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Elena Maceviciute
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
GU/HiB