Stanford University, October 3-‐5, 2011: Explosions of Virtuality – hybrid technologies of self, innovation and management A workshop proposal – Keith Devlin, Mette Terp Høybye, Christa Breum Amhøj, H-‐ STAR, Stanford University: How may virtuality be understood as a significant potential forming innovative self-‐management? And how may the concept of virtuality re-‐configure our understanding of human-‐technology interactions? The workshop asks such key questions, cutting across traditional scientific boundaries and approaches to human-‐technology interaction. It has been thoroughly documented in recent years how engagement, in games, on the internet and in real-‐time simulations opens new virtual life settings that profoundly shape human interaction. It has been shown how virtual interaction holds innovative potential to transform learning and education, as well as to change what is conceived an organization. Objectives of the workshop: Taking outset in such previous work, this workshop seeks to bring together cutting-‐edge research beyond disciplinary boundaries to discuss the innovative potential of virtuality for transcending different worlds and thereby enabling innovation as a new form of being. We suggest that management of organizations, communities and selves by new forms of virtual being becomes an intuitive, everyday technology navigating the borderlands of the actual and the potential. The workshop will contribute to explore what happens when we engage virtuality by producing new forms of self, innovation and management, by posing questions like: What are the contours and limits of perceptual spaces driven by virtuality? If virtuality constitutes self, how can we observe this self? How can virtuality move the self from formalized roles by managing self as an avatar? To what extend does virtuality transform emotions to impersonalized affects? How is management transformed by the engagement of virtuality from reproductions of reality to innovation as active intuition? Outcomes of the workshop: - to form an overview of different ways by which virtuality is used to create self-‐managing persons. - to develop a shared language on how constructions of vituality affect the potential for creating self-‐managing persons (self-‐management towards health, education, community, climate change, etc.). - to inspire researchers and developers to use the shared knowledge on virtuality in intervention work shaping quality innovation and self-‐ management.
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Stanford researchers: (suggested) Keith Devlin, Co-‐founder and Executive Director of the H-‐STAR institute, Stanford (confirmed) Jeremy Balienson, Associate professor, Director of Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford (confirmed) Roy Rosin, Vice President of Innovation at Intuit (confirmed) Renate Fruchter, Director of PBL Lab, Stanford (confirmed) Martha Russell, Associate Director of Media X at Stanford University, Senior Research Scholar at the Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research (H*STAR) Institute at Stanford University (confirmed) Jesse Allison Fox, Assistant professor, Ohio State University Jeffrey Heer, Assisting professor at Computer Science Department, Stanford Henrik Bennetsen, CEO of Katalabs & former Associate Director at Humanities Lab, Stanford (confirmed) Terry Winograd, Professor at Dep. of Computer Science, Stanford Scott Dooley / Scott Witthoft, d.school, Stanford University Byron Reeves, Co-‐Founder and Faculty Co-‐Director of the H-‐STAR Institute, Stanford Pamala Hinds, Co-‐Director, Center for Work, Technology & Organization, Stanford Dan Schwartz, Professor at School of Education, Stanford (or some of his PhD students)
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