2nd Conference on Pragmatic Web
Maandag 22 oktober 2007 00:00
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TRUST AND COMMITMENT: Whether we look at our geo-political andenvironmental context, work within and between organizations, or our
local communities, there has never been a greater need for
understanding across cultural, intellectual, and other boundaries.
Whether the context is international policy, distributed teamwork, e-
business, or community mobilisation, fundamentally, people must build
trust and commitment to common goals by talking and acting together.
What role does the Web have to play in these complex processes?
GET PRAGMATIC: The study of "pragmatics" is driven by an interest in
action. It illuminates how it is that we manage to evolve mutual
understanding and commitments in conversation. Central to this
perspective is the understanding that the meaning of everything we
say and do is contextual. When contexts change, meanings change in
conversations, documents, and models of the world. This is something
that we manage fluently in face-to-face conversation, but when
working on the Web over space and time, tools must still support
adaptation to new contexts. A focus on pragmatics draws attention to
how communicative actions are performed via Web media.
THE PRAGMATIC WEB CONFERENCE is a unique forum to envision and debate how the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web mediates the ways in which we construct shared meaning. While there is much research and development into topics relevant to this challenge such as
collaboration, usability, knowledge representation, and social informatics, the Pragmatic Web conference provides common ground for
dialogue at the nexus of these topics.
WE INVITE YOU as a researcher or practitioner working on these
challenges to join us in October to share your work, and to come and
find out what others are doing. This is an emerging network of people
exploring the intersection of established intellectual traditions and
the fast changing Web: come and help shape the community!
CHALLENGES include:
- How can we better understand the usefulness, and limitations, of a concept such as "Web Pragmatics"
- What pragmatic design principles improve websites where trust and commitment to action are central?
- What are the tradeoffs for users of more structured Web collaboration media? (e.g. in learnability, scaleability,intelligibility)
- How can participatory work practices and collaboration tools be orchestrated in the design of the standards, data models and ontologies that underpin data-driven Web applications?
- What role does pragmatics play in the design of personalised information and personalised actions channelled through the Web?
- What impact (intended or unintended, productive or disruptive) do different levels of computational infrastructure have on Web pragmatics?
- How can we clarify our understandings of increasingly important concepts on the Web such as "social ties", "metadata", "knowledge representation", and "transaction"?
- If "context" is pivotal in making human interaction meaningful, how can we take context into account to improve Web applications?
Meer informatie op de website: www.PragmaticWeb.info
- Wie:
- Tilburg University
- Wat:
- 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web
- Waar:
- Tilburg (exacte locatie n.n.b.)
- Wanneer:
- 22-23 Oct. 2007
- Kosten:
- n.n.b.