[esocialaction] travel grants for participation in the workshop
'Technologies for
Enhancing Visual Methods and Data' (7 October 2007, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, the US)
Yuwei Lin
yuwei at ylin.org
Tue Aug 21 14:43:18 BST 2007
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Two travel grants (500 GBP each) will be awarded to junior researchers
interested in visual methods to attend the workshop 'Technologies for
Enhancing Visual Methods and Data', in conjunction with the 3rd
international e-Social Science conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan, the US
(7-9 October 2007).
Prospect applicants should send their CVs and an intent to participate (no
more than 1 page) before 1 September 2007 to Yuwei Lin via email at
yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk. Decision will be made on 3 September 2007.
A call for participation in this workshop can be found below. For more
information about the workshop and the e-Social Science conference please
see the following websites:
http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm
http://ess.si.umich.edu/workshops.htm
For any enquiries please contact Yuwei Lin at yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk.
=== Call for Participation ===
Workshop: Technologies for Enhancing Visual Methods and Data
7 October 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, the US
(in conjunction with the 3rd international e-Social Science conference)
http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm
http://ess.si.umich.edu/workshops.htm
Visual methods involved with images, paintings, photos, or videos are
becoming popular in social scientific research. For instance, the use of
video and other visual methods (such as photography) have contributed to
undertaking qualitative research. Technological advancements in hardware
and software have enabled a range of visual data to be created and that
these visual images could be employed in research to provide insight into
understandings of behaviours, attitudes, emotions and beliefs, and to
result in methodological advancements or innovations.
The ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science has involved in several
projects in response to the need for visual methods. Some of them are about
developing tools for data collection and analysis. The others are about
exploring new ways of doing research in an image-based visual environment.
This half-day workshop, partly sponsored by the British Academy and Taiwan
National Science Council international collaboration fund, will provide an
opportunity for people engaged in visual methods to share their work and
experiences. Both developers and users from different disciplines are
cordially invited.
The discussion at this workshop will
* advance our understanding of user requirements which are emerging and
difficult to meet;
* raise awareness of visual methods for social scientific research;
* encourage the adoption of new technologies for collecting and analysing
visual data;
* improve our understandings of social and ethical and usability issues
involved in the development process of new technologies for enhancing
visual methods and visual data;
* implicate in methodological innovation in social sciences and other
research areas.
We also anticipate to identify key collaboration areas for formulating
longer term international research projects.
This workshop is organised by Michael Daw, Terry Hewitt, and Yuwei Lin at
the University of Manchester; Pau-Choo Chung at the National Cheng-Kung
University in Taiwan.
For registration or any enquiries, please contact Yuwei Lin at
yuwei.lin{at}ncess.ac.uk.
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