Workshop on Information, Silence, and Sanctuary

这笔资金将部分支持一个研讨会，探讨信息过载、注意力分散以及日常生活的普遍繁忙和加速等问题。 会议的目标是调查这种不平衡，开始查明其原因和条件，并探讨补救行动。 讲习班将于2004年5月10日至12日在西雅图举行，预计将吸引来自若干学科和各行各业的大约50名与会者，包括艺术和人文科学、技术、图书馆和信息科学、经济学、教育和宗教。 参加者的挑选将符合若干标准，包括性别均衡和代表性不足群体的代表性。 研讨会将于5月10日晚在西雅图市中心的市政厅开始一个关于信息和生活质量的公共论坛，邀请研讨会的与会者参加，并免费向公众开放。 它将继续在华盛顿大学校园举行为期两天的邀请会议。 讨论主题将包括：超载的压力;为什么我们如此不堪重负，沉默和庇护;公共机构在实现平衡方面的作用;以及在网络空间中或从网络空间中避难。 最近似乎没有就这一问题举行任何其他会议。 研讨会的部分资金由麦克阿瑟基金会、华盛顿大学辛普森人文中心和在线计算机图书馆中心提供。更广泛的影响：PI的目标是提高公众对研讨会主题的认识，并激发对它们的广泛讨论。 为此，他将编写一份报告，概述研讨会的发言及其主要结论，并将在网上提供。 此外，他还得到《伦理学和信息技术》杂志（Kluwer）的同意，出版一期专门介绍讲习班结果的特刊，其中将包括讲习班报告和一些与会者撰写的论文。 PI希望对研讨会进行广泛的新闻报道，并计划在当地（西雅图）图书馆和博物馆组织（与UW图书馆、UW亨利美术馆和西雅图公共图书馆合作）关于研讨会讨论主题的公开会议，以及在一个或多个即将举行的ACM会议上关于这些主题的小组讨论。

This is funding to partially support a workshop to explore the problems of information overload, the fragmentation of attention, and the general busyness and speed up of everyday life. The goal of the meeting is to investigate this imbalance, to begin to map its causes and conditions, and to explore remedial actions. The workshop will be held in Seattle on May 10-12, 2004, and is expected to attract approximately 50 participants from a number of disciplines and walks of life, including the arts and humanities, technology, library and information sciences, economics, education, and religion. Participants will be selected to satisfy a number of criteria, including gender balance and representation of under-represented groups. The workshop will begin with a Public Forum on Information and the Quality of Life at Town Hall in downtown Seattle on the evening of May 10, attended by the workshop invitees and open to the general public at no charge. It will continue with two days of invitation-only meetings on the University of Washington campus. Discussion topics will include: the stress of overload; why are we so overloaded; silence and sanctuary; the role of public institutions in achieving balance; and sanctuary in, or from, cyberspace. There do not appear to have been any other recent meetings on exactly this subject. Partial funding for the workshop is being provided by the MacArthur Foundation, by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, and by the Online Computer Library Center.Broader Impacts: The PI's goal is to raise public awareness of the workshop topics and to stimulate broad discussion of them. To these ends, he will write a report summarizing the workshop presentations and its major findings, and will make it available online. In addition, he has secured agreement from the journal Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer) to publish a special issue devoted to the workshop's findings, that will include a report on the workshop and papers produced by some of the participants. The PI hopes to generate extensive press coverage of the workshop, and plans to organize (in conjunction with the UW Libraries, the UW Henry Art Gallery, and the Seattle Public Library) public meetings at local (Seattle) libraries and museums on the workshop discussion topics, as well as panel(s) on these topics at one or more upcoming ACM conferences.