Konferens: Virtual 2006

THE VIRTUAL 2006 : DESIGNING DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
a conference 14th - 16th September 2006

The research programme Man Medium Machine [M3] and the School of Communication, Technology & Design at Södertörn university college, invites to a three-day conference on the theme “The Virtual – designing digital experience”.

The conference will be held at Rosenön conference centre, in the archipelago of Haninge, south of Stockholm.

theme of conference
How are we Designing digital experience? How does digital experience affect us? For whom do we design the digital experiences? And, what is this practice, called interaction design? These kinds of questions are the main theme for the keynote lectures of the Virtual conference 2006.

Digital experience will then be discussed in four different themes, running in parallel sessions throughout the conference. These themes will include paper presentations, and will be introduced by an invited moderator. The conference will close with a panel debate.

What is digital experience? We think it can be understood in at least two different ways: We do experience a wide range of expressions mediated by digital media. And also, our experiencing of the world we live in, have become dependent upon digital medias. This leads to two different, but highly intertwined, questions: How to understand different kinds of digital expressions? And, what is it to experience by way of media extensions? Therefore, these four themes:

themes
theme a – Gaming experience
theme b – Interactive experience
theme c – Knowledge experience
theme d – Human experience

keynotes
Mary Flanagan
artist; inventor-designer-activist, NYC; professor + director, tiltfactor research group, Hunter College.

Ian Bogost
Assistant Professor at The Georgia Institute of Technology, game designer, academic game researcher, and educational publisher.

John McCarthy
Senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork.

conference fee
3.000 Skr (excl. VAT), includes;
+ lunch and dinner on Thursday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday.
+ two nights in a hotel-room.
+ social activity Friday evening.

For further information, please look at the conference website http://m3.sh.se/virtual2006.