From: "Kinshuk" kinshuk@massey.ac.nz To: "ICALT2001 Participants" kinshuk@inspire.net.nz Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE Intl Conf on Advanced Learning Technologies Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:08:56 +1300 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2002) September 9-12, 2002 Kazan, Russia

** Sponsored by IEEE Learning Technology Task Force IEEE Computer Society Kazan State Technological University Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Republic

** Conference theme

"ADVANCED LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: MEDIA AND THE CULTURE OF LEARNING"

ICALT-2002 invites submissions with a good theoretical base or formalism and vital inspiration that present new, yet unpublished, solid achievements based on experimental and/or theoretical evidences that come to answer concretely one or more of the questions above or can point to possible answers. Survey papers are also accepted, if they are well documented, make a contribution to the field, and reveal new aspects and perspectives, as well as future directions. This year ICALT will offer in particular a platform for those who bring additional methods, tools and criteria for successful media development. Traditionally, the evolution of media for learning was based both upon theoretical and artistic grounds. We now gradually see intermediate foundations between these two (often irreconcilable) godfathers.

The first influx that helps us in this reunion is that learners themselves become active players in the way media manifest during the moments of ultimate learning. The second is the stepwise acceptance of learning practices that rely upon aesthetic, emotional and social factors. New (virtual) learning communities arise on the WWW with the goal to promote one's courage to change himself as a learner. Thirdly; many successful learning tools were initially not aimed at learning: Simulations programs, expert systems, agents, virtual reality and all WWW-based communication tools.

It seems that learning is a many-facetted process that benefits from new tools and interaction games all the time. The binding factor between learning and media development is the cultural heritage to assimilate new genres, new fashions and new etiquettes in our way to express meanings and promote mutual tolerance. Here we have the responsibility to make learners conscious of their identity and their responsibility to help others to learn as well.

We would like to invite you to bring in papers, based upon your experience, intuition and beliefs that are worth to be discussed from a scientific point of view. The more concrete you express your message in terms of media and new technologies, the more welcome you are.

** Topics of Interest

The focus of the conference is on the design and development issues of advanced learning technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: . Adaptive and intelligent applications . Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia . Application of artificial intelligence tools in learning technology . Application of instructional design theories . Architecture of learning technology systems . Building learning communities . Collaborative learning/groupware . Creative Design methods for new learning media . Distance Learning . Evaluation of learning technology systems . Integrated learning environments . Internet based systems . Knowledge Testing and Evaluation . Long-life learning . Media for learning in multicultural setting . Metadata for learning resources . Practical uses of authoring tools . Robots and Artifacts in Education . Socially intelligent agents . Speech and (Natural) Language Learning . Teaching/learning strategies . Virtual reality

The conference will focus on where the research in advance learning technology is heading and what are the implementation challenges in the real-world situations.

** Submissions

Submissions are invited in following categories:

• Papers
• Panels
• Tutorials
• Workshops

Details of submission procedure are available at: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2002/

** Important dates:

Friday 05 April 2002: Paper submission Friday 05 April 2002: Panel proposal submission Friday 05 April 2002: Tutorial proposal submission Friday 05 April 2002: Workshop proposal submission Friday 05 April 2002: "ICALT-2002 submission form" completion Friday 17 May 2002: Acceptance/Rejection Notification Friday 14 June 2002: Author registration deadline Friday 21 June 2002: Final version papers due

** ICALT 2001 Committee Members

• Program Co-Chairs

Piet Kommers, Twente University, The Netherlands Valery Petrushin, Accenture, USA

• General Co-Chairs

Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand Ildar Galeev, Kazan State Technological University, Russia

• Organizing Chair

Ildar Galeev, Kazan State Technological University, Russia

• Panel/Tutorial/Workshop Chair

Katherine Sinitsa, IRTC ITS, Ukraine

• Program Committee

Robert Aiken, Temple University, USA Tomaz Amon, Center for Scientific Visualization, Slovenia Gennady Atanov, Donetsk Open University, The Ukraine Jose Bidarra, Open University, Portugal Madhumita Bhattacharya, National Institute of Education, Singapore Alfred Bork, University of California, Irvine, USA Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy Chris Bowerman, Sunderland University, United Kingdom Peter Brusilovsky, Pittsburgh University, USA Stefano Cerri, University of Montpellier II, France Grainne Conole, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Kerstin Dautenhahn, The University of Hertfordshire,UK Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Ben du Boulay, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Heredina Fernandez, University of Madrid, Spain Natalia Filatova, Tver State University, Russia Ildar Galeev, Kazan State Technological University, Russia Peter Goodyear, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Sergey Grigoriev, ..., Russia Heling Huai, University of Duisburg, Germany Kouji Itoh, Tokyo Science University, Japan A. D. Ivannikov, State Research Inst. for Info Tech and Telecomm, Russia Laveen N. Kanal, LNK Corp., USA Ilias Karasavidis, University of Crete, Greece Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA Janet L. Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa Chul-Hwan Lee, Inchon National University of Education, Korea Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan Mihail Morozov, Yoshkar-Ola State University, Russia Som Naidu, University of Melbourne, Australia Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA Irina Obukhova, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Emrah Orhun, Troy State University Montgomery, USA Roy Rada, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Thomas C. Reeves, University of Georgia, USA Irek Sabaev, Kazan State Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev, Russia Demetrios G Sampson, Center for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece Valerie Shute, Knowledge Planet, USA Katherine Sinitsa, IRTC ITS, The Ukraine Valery Soloviev, Kazan State University, Russia Alexander Solovov, Samara State Aerospace University, Russia Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, USA J. Michael Spector, Syracuse University, USA Krassen Stefanov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchevan, Canada Carmen Vizcarro, University of Madrid, Spain Beverly Park Woolf, University of Massachusetts, USA

** Contact information

• For organizational matters, please contact:

Ildar Kh. Galeev Organizing Chair Email: monap@kstu.ru Department of Information Technologies and Technical Aids of Learning Kazan State Technological University 420015, 68, K. Marx str., Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia Tel: +7 8432 36-20-35 Fax: +7 8432 36-57-68

• For general information, please contact:

Kinshuk General Chair Email: kinshuk@massey.ac.nz Information Systems Department Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, New Zealand Tel: +64 6 350 5799 Ext 2090 Fax: +64 6 350 5725