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Workshop Program: September 17-18, 1999

Workshop Program: September 17
9:00-9:30 Opening
9:30-12:00 Panel A: Digital City and Community Network Experiments

Digital City Bristol: A Case Study
A. Bruine and E. Geelhoed (Hewlett-Packard Research Lab., United Kingdom)

Design and Development of Community Oriented Tools
S. Miyagawa and I. Kaneko (Keio University, Japan)

Experiences of European Digital Cities
E. Mino (TeleCities Network, Belgium)

The Geographic Information System (GIS) of Turin Municipality
G. Bolatto (Torino City Council, Italy)

Davis Community Network (DCN)
A Regional Community Networking Initiative in North-Central California

R. Lowenberg (Davis Community Network, U.S.A)

Examining Community in the Digital Neighbourhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb Project.
K. Hampton and B. Wellman (University of Toronto, Canada)

12:00-16:30Lunch and Excursion
16:30-18:00 Oral Presentation for Posters

Digital City for Disaster Reduction - Development of Pictogram System for Disaster Management
H. Hayashi, S. Tanaka, K. Urabe, H. Yoshida, S. Inoue, H. Shima, N. Deki, J. Kasagi, T. Nishino, Y. Ogane and M. Takashima (Kyoto University, Japan)

Dynamic Zone Retrieval and Landmark Computation for Spatial Data
H. Kawagishi, K. Koiso and T. Tanaka (Kobe University, Japan)

Environment of Spatial Information Sharing
H. Tsuji, T. Yamada, M. Tamano, T. Sobue and S. Kitazawa (Hitachi Systems Development Lab., Japan)

A Pilot Project of DigitalCity_Shanghai - Shanghai Tourist Information System
DingPeng, MaoWeiLiang, WangZhaoDong, MaFanYuan and ShengHuanYe (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)

Towards the Integration of Physical and Virtual Worlds for Supporting Group Learning
F. Kusunoki, M. Sugimoto and H. Hashizume (Tama Art University, Japan)

An Approach to Navigation Support in a Real City by Using City Metaphors
K. Fujii, S. Nagai, Y. Miyazaki and K. Sugiyama (NTT Cyber Space Lab., Japan)

Community Networks, Digital Cities and Community Informatics
M. Gurstein (University College of Cape Breton, Canada)

Experiments in the Digital "Engineering City Oulu"
L. Krzanik and M. Makarainen (University of Oulu, Finland)

Image Maps: Exploring Urban History through Digital Photography
B. Smith, E. Blankinship, A. Ashford III, M. Baker and T. Hirzel (MIT Media Lab., U.S.A)

Creative Contents Community: A Multimedia Contents Authoring Environment for a New Digital Community
T. Asahi, H. Noda, D. Taguchi and K. Ishihara (NEC Human Media Lab., Japan)

Fairy in a Smart IC Card: Interfacing People, Town, and Digital City
T. Terano, T. Nishimura, Y. Ishino and E. Murakami (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

18:00-20:00 Posters and Demonstrations
Workshop Program: September 18
9:30-11:30 Panel B: Visualization and Mobile Technologies

Extending the Services and the Accessibility of Community Networks
A. Grasso, D. Snowdon and M. Koch (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

The Motion Generation of Pedestrians as Avatar and Crowds of People
K. Tsutsuguchi, K. Sugiyama and N. Sonehara (NTT CyberSpace Lab., Japan)

Image-based Pseudo-3D Visualization of Real Space on WWW
M. Tsukamoto (Osaka University, Japan)

Public Applications of SpaceTag and their Impacts
H. Tarumi, K. Morishita and Y. Kamabayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Location Oriented Integration of Internet Information - Mobile Info Search
K. Takahashi, S. Yokoji and N. Miura (NTT Information Sharing Lab., Japan)

11:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:30 Panel C: Community Support and Systems

A Warm Cyber-Welcome: Using an Agent-led Group Tour to Introduce Visitors to Kyoto
K. Isbister (NTT Open Lab., Japan)

Agent Community with Social Interactions for Talents and Jobs Hunting
T. Asakura, T Shiroshima and T. Miyashita (NEC Human Media Research Lab., Japan)

Public Opinion Channel: A Challenge for Interactive Community Broadcast
S. Azechi, N. Fujihara, K. Sumi, T. Hirata, H. Yano and T. Nishida (MPT Communications Research Lab., Japan)

The Digital City's Public Library: Support for Community Building and Knowledge Sharing
S. Robertson (MediaOne Group, U.S.A)

On-line Forums as an Arena for Political Discussions
A. Ranerup (University of Goteborg, Sweden)

15:30-16:00Break
16:00-17:00 Panel D: The Future of Digital City

Digital City or Urban Simulator?
A. Aurigi (University College London, United Kingdom)

Community Networking: the Future of Digital Cities. Some Global Lessons from European Experiences
A. Serra (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

17:00-17:30 Closing


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