The IFIP WG9.5 "Virtuality and Society" International Workshop on
Images of Virtuality: Conceptualizations and Applications in Everyday Life
April 23-24, 2009
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Program
___________________________________________________________________________Thursday 23 April
Pre-workshop Day
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08:30 - 09:00, 6th Floor --> Workshop Registration & Coffee
09:00 - 09:30, Room 609 --> Opening of the pre-workshop day,
Welcoming Message from the local organizers.
Angeliki Poulymenakou & Anthony Papargyris
Welcoming Message from the Chair of IFIP wg9.5.
Niki Panteli
09:30 – 10:50, Room 609 --> Short-Paper Presentations I
Boundary conditions in architecture: The concept of the virtual architectural object. [presentation]
Antonios Moras
From the architect-programmer to the architect-gamer: the videogame as an emergent tool of architectural design. [presentation]
Stylianos Giamarelos
INDEX_ MESH: hacking public spaces into common places. [presentation]
Athina Stavridou, Sonia Tzimopoulou, Angela Kouveli, Dimitris Psychogios, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Xenofon Papadopoulos, Michael Georgiou
Aspects of virtuality: a space of conversions.[presentation]
Sonia Tzimopoulou
10:50 – 11:00 --> Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45, Room 609 -->Short-Paper Presentations II
Virtual destruction: the erosion of traditional teaching and learning processes? [presentation]
Simran Grewal
Particle Physics and Virtuality - a discussion on researching a virtual distributed community for the LHC at CERN. [presentation]
Will Venters
11:45 – 12:00 --> Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:40, Room 609 --> Short-Paper Presentations III
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear [presentation]
Mariella Azzato Sordo, Cristian Alvarez
Virtual Reality Internet Retailing (VRIR): experimental investigation of interactive shopping interface – store atmosphere effects on user-consumer behavior [presentation]
Ioannis G. Krasonikolakis, Adam P. Vrechopoulos
12:40 - 13:00, Room 607 --> Pre-Lunch Presentation
AMBIVALENCE
Chrisdian Wittenburg
13:00 - 14:30, Room 607 --> Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30, Room 607 --> Parallel Poster Presentations
Basic analysis for usage of social bookmarking services: distinct platform as a tool for information management
Yoshiaki Fukami, Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai, Jiro Kokuryo
Designing online educational games for the next generation
Sofia Mysirlaki, Fotini Paraskeva
New forms of electronic Governance in the Social Web: The Greek case
Eleni-Revekka Staiou
ActClick: bringing together NGOs with active citizens
Elli Kousi
14:30 – 15:30, Room 607 --> VIRTUAL CAFÉ
Round table / Open discussion on “Conducting research on Virtuality & Society”
15:30 – 16:50, Room 607 --> Case Studies
The community of Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network [presentation]
Kostas Karampelas
Building E- Government platforms through Second Life
William Prensky, Evangelos Syrigos
Virtual Reality: technology framework and case studies [presentation]
Konstantinos Loupos
16:50 – 17:00, Room 607 --> Closing of the pre-workshop day
Angeliki Poulymenakou, Anthony Papargyris
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Friday 24 April
Workshop Day
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09:00 - 10:00, 6th Floor --> Workshop Registration & Coffee
10:00 - 11:00, Room 609 --> Paper Presentations I: Concepts of Virtuality
Virtuality: a fertile and prosperous research field [presentation]
Niki Panteli
Virtual oversight over transnational capitalism [presentation]
David Kreps, Renfred Wong
11:00 - 11:15 --> Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45, Room 609 --> Paper Presentations II: Virtuality & Work
Non governmental organizations in Greece gone virtual [presentation]
Symeon Ververidis, Iraklis Varlamis
Cultural and social inhibitors to the adoption of virtuality in the workplace [presentation]
Elizabeth Duncan
“Clusters of Competence” in the distributed development of grids: a particle physics community’s response to the difficulties of global systems development. [presentation]
Avgousta Kyriakidou, Will Venters
12:45 - 14:00 --> Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00, Room 609 --> Paper Presentations III: Architecture, Virtuality & Urban Design
E-democracy spaces
Ioannis Orfanos, Dimitris Papadopoulos
Intravein - parametric urbanism
Pavlos Xanthopoulos, Yiannis Orfanos, Brian Dale, Gerard Thomas F. Joson
15:00 – 15:15 --> Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:15, Room 609 --> Paper Presentations IV: Experiencing Virtuality in Images & Life Events
Virtuality in images
Martin Warnke
Digital death [presentation]
Stacey Pitsillides, Savvas Katsikides, Martin Conreen
16:15 – 16:30 --> Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30, Room 609 --> Paper Presentations V: Virtuality, Law & Social Networking
The legal frame of internet technology of chatting, social networking and virtual worlds [presentation]
Thomas Papaliagas
E-learning social network analysis for social awareness [presentation]
Niki Lambropoulos
17:30 – 18:00, Room 609 --> Closing of the workshop day
Epilogue
Angeliki Poulymenakou, Anthony Papargyris
18:00 – 18:45, Room 609 --> IFIP WG 9.5 Business Meeting
20:30 --> SOCIAL EVENT