ICE Announcements 12.6.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. NMI Holiday Slam
2. UGA high-performance networks
3. Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference
4. Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Conference
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1.  The Holiday New Media Slam is scheduled for Friday, 12/10 from 1:30  – 4:30 in the NMI (5th
floor of the bank of America Building in downtown Athens).  This is our chance to reflect on what
we have learned and experienced over the last four months – and have fun.  We are still working
on the details, but here is a list of highlights of the day.

-Election Connection Presentation – the personal correspondent.
Cingular gave 5 NMI students camera phones and told them to cover the elections.  They took
pictures, texted in stories, and recorded audio.  The students and experts are going to discuss
what we learned.

-Designing for Cell Phones – AppForge’s Crossfire.
Tom Cona’s design class undertook a first in the NMI – designing real projects to run on the most
mobile platform of all – the cell phone.  Tom will tell us how he did it with AppForge’s Crossfire
development too.

-WAGz 2.0 – BelAir Networks.
It was just 2 years ago that we launched the Wireless Athens Georgia Zone (WAGz) at the SLAM.
We are now completing a complete rehaul of the system using brand new state of the art
technology from BelAir Networks.  Come see how this new system works.

-Managing Mobile – iAnywhere’s Afaria.
We have learned the hard way that managing mobile devices is a bear.  This semester we
implemented a new tool, Afaria, to help out.  Our own Dave Crouch will show how this system
keeps our PDAs and laptops up-to-date and working.

-The Next Mobile Media – HP show off.
In the last year we have seen cool cellphones and wild PDAs.  But what if they merged?  HP will
show us their latest solution to convergence.

-What are they doing with that CellPhone! – New research release!
This semester the Mobile Media Scholars in the NMI have completed a ground-breaking study in
how people are actually using their cellphones.  And they used cellphones to gather the data with
text messaging (complements of Cingular).  Come hear the surprising results.
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2. Town Hall Meeting: New UGA High-Performance Telecommunications Networks.  Sponsored by
the Office of the Vice President for Research. For the UGA research community to learn about the
new Southern Light Rail (SLR) and National Lambda Rail (NLR) high-performance
telecommunications networks, available to the UGA community early in 2005. Staff from
Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) and the OVPR's Office of Research Services (ORS)
will present concepts, plans and uses of SLR and NLR that will facilitate new research
opportunities. 10:30 AM. Complex Carbohydrate Research Center auditorium, Riverbend Rd.
Contact: 542-5974 .
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3. 5th Annual Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference.  Sponsored by the UGA
Graduate Student Association. For graduate students to share their research across fields of
expertise while building a sense of community among graduate and professional students from
UGA and throughout Georgia. Program includes workshops to help graduate students succeed and
a wide variety of research presentations. Abstracts submission deadline Dec. 15, 2004.
Conference registration deadline Jan. 26, 2005. Through Saturday, February 12, 2005. Student
Learning Center. Contact:<[log in to unmask]>
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4. 18th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies
January 7-9, 2005 Georgia Center

Art as Research & Research as art

Mergers between social scientists and artists add dimensionality, complexity, and accessibility to
each group's work. Increasingly, both researchers and artists are exploring the space where
aesthetics and communication of social meaning overlap, documenting human life in ways that are
both artistic and scientific. QUIG 2005 features papers and workshop proposals addressing
questions related to this year's theme:
 - Is there an artistic dimension to all qualitative research? If so, then how do we incorporate
the visual, literary, and/or performing arts at any stage of data collection, analysis, and
presentation?
 - How can the arts help qualitative research communicate to broader audiences?
 - What are the distinctive forms of knowledge that are best explored through the arts?
 - How does qualitative research expand our understanding of artistic activity?
 - How do creative writers, performers, and visual artists use "fieldwork" in the creative
process?
 - How must arts-based researchers address questions of quality in today's "scientific inquiry"
climate?

For more information visit: <http://www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/2005/Jan/07/quig.phtml>