The 8th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2009)

In cooperation with Kyoto University Global COE Program:
Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society

Situated and embodied interactions for symbiotic and inclusive societies.

Important dates (extended!)

Paper Submission:	June 1 19 , 2009
Acceptance Notification:	July 15 30, 2009
Submission of Revised Paper:	September 1 10, 2009
Early Registration:	before October 9, 2009
Regular Registration:	before October 27, 2009
Workshop:	November 9-11, 2009

Aim and scope
Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and understand the intelligent and coordinated interactions among humans, artifacts, and environments. The workshop's theme this year on situated and embodied interactions for symbiotic and inclusive societies acknowledges the essential need for designing tools, procedures, techniques and frameworks to improve the interactions by addressing socially or ecologically related factors. Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition including design processes, workspaces, education, business processes, entertainment, social systems, and other fields are invited to participate.

Topics of interest include:

• Situated computation
• Embodied interaction and communication
• Sociable artifacts
• Socially intelligent robots
• Communication patterns in online communities
• Primordial knowledge and knowledge creating
• Virtual communities
• Collaboration Technologies and tools
• Multiagent systems
• Decision making
• Collaborative and participatory design
• Cognitive aspects of interaction and communication
• Social presence, empowerment, and educaction
• Inclusive and universal design
• Social inclusion
• Ecological lifestyles, everyday computing, and ambient computing
• Field informatics and BA technology

Background
Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and understand the interactions between designing and social intelligence.
It involves multiple disciplinary approaches concerning design and implementation of systems and environments, ranging from group/team oriented collaboration support systems that facilitate common ground building, goal-oriented interaction among participants, to community support systems that support large-scale online-discussion.
SID also involves processes associated with the cognitive and social psychological understanding of social intelligence, providing means for predicting and evaluating the nature and consequences of communication media on the nature of discussions, interaction dynamics, and decision making.
SID encompasses also pragmatic considerations from ecology, economy, sociology, ethics and many other fields, for social intelligence design has a direct relation with the society. For SID, all these aspects work complementarily to each other and must be integrated intimately, for good systems cannot be built without good understanding and vice versa.

Some themes of SID have been:

1. Natural Interactions - covering theory, modeling and analytical frameworks that have been developed with Social Intelligence Design in mind, including situated computation, embodied interaction and communication, sociable artifacts, socially intelligent robots.
2. Collaboration Technologies and tools - covering innovations to support interactions within communities, covering a range from knowledge sharing systems, multiagent systems and interactive systems.
3. Communities - covering community media, communication patterns in online communities, knowledge-creating, virtual communities and collaboration technologies.
4. Multidisciplinary perspectives ? exploring Social Intelligence at the intersection of different disciplines, such as, people-place-process, place-technology-interaction, that bring technology, work spaces, social behaviors and process aspects together.
5. Application Domains - including design, workspaces, education, e-commerce, entertainment, digital democracy, digital cities, policy, business and lifestyles.