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 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Note: This is a preliminary program and may suffer changes.

 

Wednesday  24th March, 2004

08:30-18:00

Welcome Desk - Registration

14:30-15:00

Opening Session

Prof. Piet Kommers, Prof. Pedro Isaías and

Prof. Miguel Baptista Nunes

(Room Grand Auditorium)

15:00-16:00

Keynote Presentation

Prof . Johannes Cronje

(Room Grand Auditorium)

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Parallel Sessions

Session FP 24.1 - Group Processes and Self-Organization     (Room Grand Auditorium)

Clustering web-based communities using self-organizing maps  (F072)

Juan J. Merelo-Guervós, Beatriz Prieto, Alberto Prieto, G Romero, Pedro Castillo Valdivieso and Fernando Tricas

INTERNET HABIT AND ADDICTION IN THE CONTEXT OF A COMMUNITY WEBSITE (F046)

Michael Mackert and Pamela Whitten

Session FP 24.2 - Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities (Room 01.1)

Virtual Active IP Node for collaborative environments (F068)

Francisco Puentes and Víctor Carneiro

Managing Data in a B2B-Centric Web-Based Community (F183)

Chima Adiele and Sylvanus A. Ehikioya

 

20:00

Conference Dinner
   

Thursday   25th March, 2004

08:30-18:00

Welcome Desk - Registration

09:00-11:00

Parallel Sessions

Session FP 25.1 - Group Processes and Self-Organization       (Room Grand Auditorium)

USING A NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY (F144)

Ken Newman

SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (F168)

Bronwyn Stuckey and John D. Smith

FROM REAL WORLD TO WEB-BASED ETHNIC COMMUNITIES: CHALLENGES AND EXPERIENCES OF THE CHINESE IN PERU (F120)

Clara M. Chu

TOWARDS A ROBUST METHODOLOGY FOR INVESTIGATING OLD-FIRM RELATED SECTARIANISM ONLINE (F031)

David McMenemy and Alan Poulter

Session SP 25.2 - Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities (Room 01.2)

REGULATING WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES (S002)

Alan S. Abrahams, David M. Eyers and Jean M. Bacon

CONNECTING STUDENTS AT A DISTANCE: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY (S093)

Vicki L. Gregory and Diane Austin

Building Online Communities: The Barriers and the Bruises (S107)

John Heap and Brian Kelly

 WEB-BASED FLEXIBLE LEARNING (S185)

Sathiamoorthy Manoharan

WEBS OF EXPERTISE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR A NETWORKED MODEL OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS OF PORTUGUESE (S189)

Ana Cristina Sousa

 CREATING WEB BASED COMMUNITIES USING XML PORTALS (S194)

Paulo Alves, José Adriano and Luís Amaral

Session FSP 25.3 - The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities (Room 02.1)

COMMUNICATION AND MATCHMAKING SUPPORT FOR PHYSICAL PLACES OF EXCHANGE (F008)

Michael Koch, Sara Monaci, Andrea Botero Cabrera, Mirjam Huis in’t Veld and Patrizia Andronico

DEVELOPING BULLETIN BOARD VISUALISATIONS (F175)

Rehman Mohamed, John Ferguson, Alasdair Mac Cormick and David Elsweiler

Exploring the Principles of Individual and Group Identity in Virtual Communities (F070)

Mikko Jäkälä and Eleni Berki

Using Foaf to support community building (S086)

Brian Kelly and Leigh Dodds

Session FP 25.4 - Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities (Room 02.2)

TRUST BUILDING IN THE ONLINE MARKET PLACE (F056)

Cheng-Hao Chen and Masoud Saeedi

Constituents of Online Learning Communities (F077)

Urban Carlén, Ove Jobring, Martin Qvistgård and Mona Nilsen

what is behind image retrieval from THE world wide WEB? (F052)

M. L. Kherfi, D. Ziou and A. Bernardi

E-commerce organizations as virtual COMMUNITIES: UNITING KNOWLEDGE CONSUMERS AND KNOWLEDGE WORKERS (F112)

Michael S. Nilan and Michael D’Eredita

 

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Keynote Presentation

Prof . Erkki Sutinen

(Room Grand Auditorium)
12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:30

Parallel Sessions

Session FSP 25.5 - Group Processes and Self-Organization     (Room 01.1)

SOCIAL PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGY IN AN ON-LINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICES (F170)

Francesca Menegon and Vincenzo D'Andrea

FROM VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES TO NETWORK SOCIALITY- REVISITING DIFFERENT CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY (S016)

Talke Klara Hoppmann

THE SPANISH-SPEAKING BLOGOSPHERE: TOWARDS THE POWERLAW? (S140)

Fernando Tricas-García and Juan J. Merelo-Guervós

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING OF STUDENTS AND PROFESIONNALS IN WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES (S017)

Friedrich Scheuermann, Nick Kearney, Ken Larsson and Rüdiger Fries

 

Session FSP 25.6 - Group Processes and Self-Organization// Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs (Room 02.1)

CREATING EDUCATOR COMMUNITIES (F095)

Alberto Tornaghi, Adriana S. Vivacqua and Jano M. de Souza

WOVEN STORIES AS A TOOL FOR CORPORATE STRATEGY PLANNING (S094)

Jussi Nuutinen, Erkki Sutinen, Kimmo Liinamaa and Hannu Vanharanta

 HOSTING THE ENGINE OF IDEAS. A SELF-ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT DESIGNED FOR LEARNING BY PARTICIPATING (S125)

José Rodolfo Hernández-Carrión, Remedios Melero Melero and Ignacio Martínez de Lejarza y Esparducer

POST-OPERATIVE telemonitoring OF Vascular patients ON-LINE (S015)

Eduardo Ros-Vidal, José L. Bernier, Javier Nievas, Mario Bárchein, Juan J. Merelo, Eduardo Ros-Díe and José M. Sánchez

EQUITABLE ACCESS TO A HEALTHCARE KNOWLEDGE BASE TO SUPPORT PRACTICE, RESEARCH AND LIFELONG LEARNING FOR STAFF IN NHS SCOTLAND (S064)

Allan Taylor and Mark Buchner

 
15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

15:00-18:00

 

POSTER SESSIONS
16:00-19:00

TUTORIAL 1 (Room 02.1)

TUTORIAL 2 (Room 02.2)

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM (Room 02.3)

 
   

Friday   26th March, 2004

08:30-16:00

Welcome Desk - Registration

09:00-10:30

Parallel Sessions

Session FP 26.1 - Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities// The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities (Room 01.2)

CREATING ON-LINE STUDENT COMMUNITIES USING FORUM-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONALISED WEBLOGS (F058)

Anil Pathak and Fazilah Mohamed Ismail

What does it take to be active? teacher participation in online communities (F059)

John Cuthell

WEB BASED COLLABORATION SYSTEM FOR WORKSHOP-LIKE EVENTS (F088)

Andreas Bischoff

Session FP 26.2 - Group Processes and Self-Organization       (Room 02.1)

Media integration within web based communities (F149)

Elizabeth Sillence

MAKING THE MOST OF THE GOOD ADVICE: META-ANALYSIS OF GUIDELINES FOR ESTABLISHING AN INTERNET-MEDIATED COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (F166)

Bronwyn Stuckey

Sustaining a Locally-based Virtual Community (F045)

Andrew Connery and Helen Hasan

Session FP 26.3 - Group Processes and Self-Organization      (Room 02.2)

HOW BELONGING TO AN ONLINE GROUP AFFECTS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY OF ASHERON’S CALL (F018)

Ann-Sofie Axelsson and Tim Regan

SELECTION, CLIQUES AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITIES (F200)

George Kuk

REGIONAL COMMUNITY PORTALS IN AUSTRALIA: ANALYSING THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY USING THE S3 MODEL (F122)

Lejla Vrazalic and Peter Hyland

Session FP 26.4 - Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs (Room 02.3)

VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN HEALTH CARE: ROLES, REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS (F090)

Yvonne Arnold, Miriam Daum and Helmut Krcmar

Your place or Mine? Parkpleintje.be: From prototype to full-fledged community site for the senior citizen (F178)

Patricia Huion and Kris Cardinaels

UNIVERSITIES’ COLLABORATION IN ELEARNING (UCEL): A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE PRACTICE IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (F079)

Dawn Leeder, John C McLachlan, Veena Rodrigues, Nicki Stephens, Heather Wharrad and Patrick McElduff

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Parallel Sessions

Session FP 26.5 - Cyborgs, Teleworking, Telemedicine, Art Games and Learning Communities (Room 01.2)

THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROCESSES UNDERLYING A TEEN-ADVICE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: YESNOMAYBE.COM (F195)

Nick V. Flor

Empowering Knowledge Sharing in Internet-Mediated Communities through Socially-Aware Autonomous Intelligent Agents (F118)

Gustavo Alberto Giménez-Lugo, Jaime Simão Sichman and Jomi Fred Hübner

satisfaction with WEB-based COMMUNITIES (F141)

Mohamed Khalifa and Vanessa Liu

Session FP 26.6 - Group Processes and Self-Organization       (Room 02.1)

DEVELOPING GOVERNANCE OF EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES (F174)

Frances Bell and Aleksej Heinze

“THEY REALLY WANT YOU TO WRITE DOWN WHO YOU ARE”- THE DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION AT LUNARSTORM (F073)

Daniel Skog

Technology as a new backbone to democracy (F117)

Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Fernando B. Pinto and Inhaúma Neves Ferraz

Session SP 26.7 - Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities (Room 02.2)

CAN ONLINE ENROLMENT SYSTEMS SURVIVE THE ONSLAUGHT? - REFLECTION AND EXPERIENCES (S047)

Libby Hobson and Carmen Joham

UNIVERSITIES AS LIFELONG LEARNING COMMUNITIES (S109)

Christopher Andrew Priebe and Philip Laird

 CENTer FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT (S121)

Goran Hudec, Marija Vesna Potočić Matković and Ivana Salopek

A MODEL FOR OPEN CONTENT COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING (S160)

Kwok-Bun Yue, Toneluh A. Yang, Wei Ding and Ping Chen

Virtual Glass Academy - as a learning community (S007)

Martin Stigmar and Rune Körnefors

Session SP 26.8 - Group Processes and Self-Organization      (Room 02.3)

Developing a web based learning community - THE EUROPEAN ENHANCEMENT OF EARLY YEARS MANAGEMENT SKILLS PROJECT (S004)

Petra Luck 

KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN CLUSTERS OF WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY (S011)

A. Neelameghan and Komalavalli Satish

“AreEnat.net” – Virtual & mobile activity forum for Finnish youth in the City of Kouvola (S061)

Cavén Outi, Heikkinen Kari and Kosonen Miia

WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN IN IT: COUNTERING INFLUENCES FROM HOME, SCHOOL, AND WORK THROUGH TO RETIREMENT (S062)

Sue Black, Cornelia Boldyreff, Fran Paterson and Margaret Ross

COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM VISUALIZATION WITH WOVEN STORIES AND JELIOT 3 (S087)

Andrés Moreno, Niko Myller and Erkki Sutinen

 
12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-16:00

Parallel Sessions

Session FP 26.9 - Group Processes and Self-Organization      (Room Grand Auditorium)

VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ON THE WEB: FACILITATING AND HINDERING USERS' COGNITIVE MOVEMENT (F110)

Michael S. Nilan, Norhayati Zakaria, Indira R. Guzman and Nasriah Zakaria

A WEB BASED VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: FUNCTIONALITY AND ARCHITECTURE ISSUES (F036)

Christos Bouras, Vaggelis Igglesis, Vaggelis Kapoulas and Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos

USER AWARENESS IN CYCLADES: A COLLABORATIVE AND PERSONALIZED ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN DIGITAL ARCHIVES (F014)

Henri Avancini and Umberto Straccia

THE NEW MEETING ROOM: CANADIAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE PROMISE OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES (F129)

Ann Curry and Kristel Fleuren

Session FSP 26.10 - The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities (Room 01.1)

CONNECTING NETWORKED COMMUNITIES – CASE BIRDWATCHERS (F033)

Kaisa Still, Soili Väinämö and Minna Isomursu

COOPERATION AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR – LEARNING FROM A MULTI-PLAYER INTERNET GAMING COMMUNITY (F169)

Michael Hahsler and Stefan Koch

Web-based Youth Communities in the light of Cyberspace Psychology (F147)

Eugenia Kovatcheva and Piet Kommers

A SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM TO SUPPORT AND SUPPLEMENT WEB-BASED INFORMATION EXCHANGE (S026)

A. Neelameghan

FRAMEWORK AND NEW VALUE CHAIN FOR A MOBILE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY (S044)

Myounhee Kim and Junghwean Kim

Session FP 26.11 - Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities (Room 02.1)

Location Based Community Services New Services for a new Type of Web Communities (F040)

Andreas Tasch and Oliver Brakel

THE Social factor as an indispensable issue in the web development process (F192)

Vidal Alonso Secades, Alberto Pedrero Esteban and Luis Joyanes Aguilar

Simulating Communities: The Language of an eLECTRONIC lecture (F053b)

Anil Pathak and Sujata Kathpalia

AN INVESTIGATION OF SOCIABILITY MEASUREMENTS IN PROXIMATE ONLINE COMMUNITIES (F030)

Nelson Wright, Alison Varey and Thomas Chesn

Session FSP 26.12 - Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs (Room 02.2)

DESIGNING ACCESSIBILITY. PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS (F096)

Rubén Arrizabalaga Muniategi and Tim Smithers

Give us Bytes rather than Bucks: Of the Impact of Free Software movement and Online Communities to the Empowerment of People with Disabilities in Eastern Europe (F076)

Kaido Kikkas

UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER-HEALTH INFORMATION USE ON ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUPS (S089)

Naybell Hernández

Structuring the socio-sanitary services NETWORK: THE CASE OF AN INTEGRATED COMMUNITY FOR ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS CARE (S123)

Francesca Pecchi and Fabrizio Rozzi

  Do online self support groups increase the network capital of their individual members? (S037)

Bodo Polzer

Session FSP 26.13 - Cyborgs, Teleworking, Telemedicine, Art Games and Learning Communities (Room 02.3)

ETHICAL ARGUMENTATION WITH ETHICSAR (F085)

Ilja Jetsu, Niko Myller, Erkki Sutinen and Veijo Meisalo

COMPETENCE MINING FOR VIRTUAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY CREATION (F173)

Sérgio Rodrigues, Jonice Oliveira and Jano Moreira de Souza

Web–based Support for Creative collaboration (F186)

Alastair Weakley and Ernest Edmonds

 Graph Visualization for the verification of online courses and tutorials structure (S127)

Daniela Satomi Saito and Carla Dal Sasso Freitas

LEARNING WEBS: LEARNING IN WEBLOG NETWORKS (S039)

Lilia Efimova and Sebastian Fiedler

 
16:00

Closing Session

Prof. Piet Kommers, Prof. Pedro Isaías and

Prof. Miguel Baptista Nunes

(Room Grand Auditorium)

 

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