Less is more - Call for participation
International Forum on “Less is More - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity”
Microsoft Research Cambridge is organizing a unique forum in April 2005. Computers continue to become smaller, cheaper, more powerful, ubiquitous and more diverse and yet for many computing is still associated with the desktop device. As a consequence, the potential of computing to shape, improve and change the social, cultural and creative fabric of society is limited. This Forum seeks to understand how computing will be able to affect the way we all live, work, learn and play. By thinking about computing for all rather than some, for the old as well as the young, for those in remote locations as well as those centrally located, and by designing for those with needs very different from those of our own, the Forum hopes to help define how computing and computers could become a ‘natural resource’ for any and all, wherever they and whatever they do.
The event will include refereed papers, posters and panel discussions.
Topics include amongst others:
- Technical solutions for simplifying life
- Social applications of technology
- Simple and attractive computing environments for children
- Manual not included
- Keyboard-less computing, no mouse, no screen
- Integrating technology in a domestic environment
- Augmenting family life, have fun together
- Non-intrusive robots and other automata
If you want to submit an asbtract you have to hurry since the deadline is February 15, 2005!
Keynote speakers are Bill Buxton (http://www.billbuxton.com/) and Scott Jenson (http://www.jenson.org/scott/resume.html)
Date: 27-28 April 2005
Details: http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx
