<br>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.<br><br>Subject: Call for Papers, Videos and Participation: World Indigenous Peoples'<br> Knowledge Visualisation Symposium
<br><br><br>A new symposium "World Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Visualisation" will be held this year as part of the 2007 11th European Information Visualisation Conference, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 - 6 July. Proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Details of the conference overall and submission procedures can be found at:
<a href="http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/">www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/</a><br><br>Details of the World Indigenous Knowledge Visualization Symposium can be found at:<br><a href="http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/IKV.htm">
www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/IKV.htm</a><br><br>The World Indigenous Knowledge Visualization Symposium seeks original projects that deal with, but are not limited to, the following topics:<br>- Heritage Visualisation<br>- Culture Visualisation
<br>- Visualising Society Networks<br>- Visualising Indigenous Knowledge Practices<br>- Developing Protocols for Indigenous Knowledge Visualisation<br>- Indigenous Knowledge Semantics<br>- Narrative Visualisation<br>- Indigenous Knowledge Ethics
<br><br>Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special journal edition.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES:<br>15 February 2007 Submission of papers & submission of tutorials 20 April 2007 Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes
<br><br>Keynote:<br>Brett Leavy (CEO Cyberdreaming: Indigenous storytelling using the game engine; Australasian Indigenous peoples' representative on United Nations World IT<br>forum)<br><br>Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
<br>Theodor G Wyeld, University of Queensland, Australia Laurel Evelyn Dyson (UTS, Aust) Helen Verran (Charles Darwin, Aust) Sarah Kenderdine (Museum Victoria, Aust) Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (NUST, Trondheim) Teng-Wen Chang (NYUST, Taiwan) Brett Leavy (QUT, Aust) Malcolm Pumpa (QUT, Aust) Marinos Ioannides (HTI, Cyprus)
<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>____________________________________________________________<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br><br>Associate Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)
<br>Department of English (Primary) <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>Second Language Acquistion &Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)<br>Department of Language,Reading and Culture<br>Department of Linguistics
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