Following the success of the UK eScience All Hands Meetings, last year Horizon held its first inaugural All Hands Meeting devoted to the Digital Economy. The Digital Economy involves the novel design or use of information and communication technologies to help transform the lives of individuals, society or business. This is a fundamentally multi-disciplinary challenge, requiring input from areas including, but not limited to, the arts and humanities, economic and social scientists, medical sciences, in addition to computing, engineering and physical sciences, with the potential to have radical impact on many sectors (for example, transport, healthcare and the creative industries) and societal concerns (for example, quality of life, social and digital inclusion and sustainability). The UK, through Research Councils UK, has invested significantly in this area over the last year with the creation of a number of Digital Economy Research Hubs, Doctoral Training Centres, community projects and other research grants, with a total investment of around £120m http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/digitaleconomy.
A key goal of the programme was to create a community in the UK that is capable of world class, leading research in the Digital Economy and one that produces trained researchers with the necessary cross-disciplinary skills to have real impact in this area. This Digital Futures conference was a key event designed to encourage the development of this community. The emphasis of the event was on community building and discussion within the overall theme of digital futures.
This two-day event included Keynote speakers, talks from selected submissions, and posters. The agenda consisted of a day of workshops followed by the main conference.
Abstracts for Papers and Posters
Abstracts for both full presentations and posters and quick fire presentations can be found here
Pdf of keynote lecture by Tom Rodden
Abstracts for posters
The Programme
The 2010 programme is now available, with details of papers accepted for the conference (11th and 12th October).
Posters accepted are listed here
The Keynote lecturers were:
- October 11th - Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham) - Living with a contextual footprint
- October 12th - Andrew Herbert (Microsoft Research) - New Technologies for the Digital Economy
The list of satellite workshops (13th October) accepted following a call for proposals is as follows - these will be a mix of full- and half-day workshops:
- Trajectories and Digital Economy Services - led by Steve Benford (University of Nottingham and Horizon Digital Economy Research)
- Enabling Universal Service Provisioning using Next Generation Access Technologies - led by Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Aberdeen and dot.rural)
- Mediating Connections: The Role of Emerging Technologies in Transforming and Presenting Information and Ideas - led by Mel Woods (University of Dundee and SerenA, TOTEM and PATINA projects)
- Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovation (TEDDI) - led by Alex Rogers (University of Southampton)
- Engaging the Public with the Digital Economy - led by Claire Thorne (University of Aberdeen and dot.rural)
Full details of the workshops can be found here.
Posters
Posters accepted are listed here
Posters should be a maximum size of 2m high and 1m wide - A0 portrait or A1 portrait are recommended. A1 landscape would also be appropriate, however A0 landscape will not fit on the boards provided and should be avoided. Posters should be put up using drawing pins provided.
Details of when and where the posters should be put up will be provided on this website shortly. At a minimum, posters should be on the poster boards during the drinks reception prior to the conference dinner on Monday October 11th. Space will be provided for only the accepted posters listed above.
Important Dates
Submission of extended abstracts: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, midnight GMT
Notification of acceptance: 27th August, 2010
Camera ready papers due (web publication only): 27th September, 2010
Submission of workshop proposals: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Steering Committee
Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen
Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham
Paul Watson, Newcastle University
Richard Bailey, RCUK Digital Economy Programme
Programme Chairs
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University
Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee
Workshop Chair
Richard Mortier, University of Nottingham
Programme Committee
Les Carr, University of Southampton
Peter Edwards, University of Aberdeen
Richard Harper, Microsoft Research
Pat Healey, Queen Mary, University of London
Robert Houghton, University of Nottingham
Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford
George Kuk, University of Nottingham
Timothy Norman, University of Aberdeen
Alun Preece, University of Cardiff
David Pym, University of Aberdeen
Edud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
Ranald Richardson, Newcastle University
Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh
John Seton, British Telecommunications
Atau Tanaka, Newcastle University
Calvin Taylor, University of Leeds
Philip Treleaven, University College London
Aad van Morsel, Newcastle University
Phil Willis, University of Bath
Adrian Woolard, BBC