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Welcome to COST 269 Home Page
The Final Report of the Action is online.
CONFERENCE The COST 269 conference "The good, the bad and the irrelevant: the user and the future of ICTs" was held in Helsinki (Finland) from 3 to 5 September 2003:
You can download here the three books that have been published by the Action: ICT Capabilities, Cross-cultural differences, e-Citizens. (Please note that the documents are in zip format)
Please find workgroup reports in the "Working groups" section.
Click here to read reports from the Short Term Scientific Missions carried out by members of the Action.
Click here to read a report on WeB-LeaP (Web-based Learning Processes).
Many interesting presentations have been made during the Management Committee meetings of COST269. Click here to read them.
Also check the new reports added in the Documents section.
Final Report COST248
150 people attended from all over the world, more than 80 papers presented: these are the numbers of a big success event.
Click here to go to the conference website.
Clich here to visit the conference community and download the papers.
The last management Committee meeting of COST 269 took place in Beaugency (France) from 7 to 8 May 2004. The meeting in Val de Loire was an unforgettable conclusion of the Action.
COST Action 269, User Aspects of ICTs belongs to the domain Telecommunications Information Science and Technology (TIST). Its main objectives are to study and analyse ICTs usage and users, with emphasis on communication, in order to increase knowledge of how and why a person incorporates or rejects ICT products and services into his/her daily life.
COST269 is a successor project to COST248 "The Future Telecommunications User". The final reports of this Action can be downloaded here.
COST Action 269 offers a unique opportunity for European scientists to participate in open research of user aspects of ICTs. An opportunity to meet and discuss ICT user aspects without regard to any particuluar discipline. The members of COST 269 represent as diverse disciplines as technology and sociology, as an example. They work for telecommunications research departments, universities or are independent consultants. Some are experienced researchers with academic responsibilities and some are graduate students.
Start date: 15 April 1999 Duration: 5 years
Here you will find the COST269 Memorandum of Understanding
SIGNATORY COUNTRIES
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
CHAIR
Chairperson:
Mrs. Annevi Kant Tel.: +46 8 715 6151
ICT User Research HB Fax: +46 8 715 6105
Harövägen 4 E-Mail: a.kant@telia.com
S-132 34 Saltsjö-Boo Sweden
Vice chairpersons :
Prof. Dr. Leopoldina Fortunati
University of Udine
Faculty of Training Sciences
Via Prasecco 3/a
I-33170 Pordenone
Italy
Phone: +39 0434 239425
Fax: +39 0434 239429
fortunati.deluca@tin.it
Dr Leslie Haddon
Consultant, Social Research &IT
3 Clifford Lodge
36 Clifford Road
New Barnet ENS 5PF
United Kingdom
Phone/Fax: +44 208 4412959
leshaddon@aol.com
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