Social Informatics is an area spreading on the boundary between Informatics and Social Science.
In order to share research motivations and results, and to discuss the future of Social Informatics, we will hold Social Informatics Fair which consists of various events, Invited Talks and Exhibitions.
The first JASI & JSIS Joint Annual Convention will be held in the Fair.
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Schedule

September 12 - 14, 2005

Location

Clock Tower Centennial Hall
Kyoto University
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN

Events

• JASI and JSIS Joint Annual Convention
• JASI Convention
• JSIS Convention
• International Symposium on Social Informatics
• The Third Infomation Property Forum
• Next Generation Content Service Platform Forum
• Electronic Intellectual Property SIG Special Symposium on "Information Technology and Machanism Design"
• Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing SIG Workshop on "InterSociety 2005"
• "Massive Sensing: Light and Shadow of Embedded Sensors Swarming into Society"
• Symposium on Personal Information Protection
• On the Formation of "Public Opinion" in the Multimedia Environment
• U-Mart2005
• Web Community Structure and Network Analysis Workshop
• Workshop on Analytical Methodologies for CMC and HCI Studies
• Symposium on "We Learned Social Informatics!"

Invited Talk

• 13:30-14:30 on September 12
  Suzi Iacono
  (National Science Foundation (NSF), America)
  "Cyberinfrastructure in the Making: Getting there from Here"
• 13:30-14:30 on September 13
  Barry Wellman
  (University of Toronto, Canada)
  "Connected Lives: The Project"
• 11:45-12:45 on September 14
  Hsiao-Wuen Hon
  (Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), China)
  "MSRA experience: doing R&D in China and Asia"

Panel　"City and Information"

• 15:00-17:30 on September 13
• Coordinator
  • Kaoru Endo (Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University)
  • Toshiyuki Masamura (Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University)
• Panelist
  • Cheng-Min Feng
    (Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University, ROC)
    "The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Logistics Operations"
  • Toru Nishigaki
    (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, Japan)
    "Hyper-Polarization of Society"
  • Toshizumi Ohta
    (Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
    "Auto-Genesis Paradigm and e-Community"
  • Carlo Ratti
    (SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT, America)
    "Sense of the City: Wireless and the Emergence of Real-Time Urban Systems"

Sponsored by

• Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
• Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, Kyoto University
  （COE program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).
• The Japan Association for Social Informatics (JASI)
• The Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies (JSIS)

Supported by

• The Japan Society of Information and Communication Research (JSICR)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Japan Association for Planning Administration
• The Japan Society for Management Information
• Japan Association of Simulation and Gaming
• International Communication Foundation (ICF)
• Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research
• Kyoto Prefecture
• Kyoto City
• The Kyoto Shimbun Co.,Ltd
• NHK Kyoto
• The Asahi Shimbun Company

Contact Us

Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
Organization Office of Social Informatics Fair
e-mail: si2005 at lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp