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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICHIM97 @ LOUVRE.FR

        The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and
Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM97) will be held at the Louvre in Paris,
September 1-5, 1997. As with previous ICHIM conferences, the focus of the
meeting will be on the ways in which hypermedia and interactive
experiences can enhance museum visits and museum publications as well as
serve as the foundation for enhanced curatorship and scientific research.
Proposals to submit papers will be accepted through January 30, 1997.
Papers are due in final form no later than May 15, 1997, in either French
or English. Papers will be published in their original language, with
abstracts in both French and English, and will be published in an edited
trade paperback edition, given as part of conference registration but
available after the conference for sale to the public.

Proposals may be for:

*  individual papers (submit an abstract and speaker biography)

*  1.5 hour session (submit a session description PLUS individual paper
abstracts and biographies of a maximum 3 speakers, two speakers with a
commentator preferred). Speakers must have agreed to participate and
write papers.

* 3.0 hour session (submit a session description PLUS individual paper
abstracts and biographies of a maximum 5 speakers). Speakers must have
agreed to participate and write papers.

* a demonstration of a museum system by museum personnel  (submit a
description of the application). Commercial demonstrators should apply
for the commercial exhibit. In general demonstrators will be expected to
bring their applications on a laptop computer; large monitors and/or
projection equipment will be available.

Full details required for all proposed organizers, commentators, speakers
and demonstrators include:
Name
Title
Organization
Address
Phone
Fax
E-mail

All conference participants must register for the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Museum Content: Digital capture and representation, multimedia and object
database management, licensing

Hypermedia Design: Interfaces, searching, navigation, linking methods,
metaphors & object typologies

Interactive Publications: Product development, delivery formats,
marketing and distribution, online delivery systems

Installations: Ergonomics, audiences, human-computer interaction

Museum Applications: Conservation, education, multimedia documentation,
rights management, membership and development, sales and marketing

Evaluation: Formative evaluation, product pre-testing, summative
evaluation, impact assessment, sales

Collaboration:  Museum/Industry partnerships, Museum/University & School
partnerships, Standards

Legal and Societal Impacts: Copyright, visual literacy & mediacy, the
concept of museums, economic models, training

A web site with conference details will be available in January 1997 at
www.louvre.fr/ichim97 and at www.archimuse.com/ichim97.

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