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

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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