Webnet 2000 World Conference on the WWW and Internet Proceedings (San Antonio, Texas, October 30-November 4Th, 2000)
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 448 744 IR 020 507 AUTHOR Davies, Gordon, Ed.; Owen, Charles, Ed. TITLE WebNet 2000 World Conference on the WWW and Internet Proceedings (San Antonio, Texas, October 30-November 4th, 2000) . INSTITUTION Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Charlottesville, VA. ISBN ISBN-1-880094-40-1 PUB DATE 2000-11-00 NOTE 1005p.; For individual papers, see IR 020 508-527. For the 1999 conference, see IR 020 454. AVAILABLE FROM Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514-3728; Web site: http://www.aace.org. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF07/PC41 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Computer Uses in Education; Courseware; Distance Education; *Educational Technology; Electronic Libraries; Electronic Publishing; *Information Technology; Internet; Multimedia Instruction; Multimedia Materials; Postsecondary Education; *World Wide Web IDENTIFIERS Electronic Commerce; Technology Utilization; *Web Based Instruction ABSTRACT The 2000 WebNet conference addressed research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet and World Wide Web. The 319 contributions of WebNet 2000 contained in this proceedings comprise the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference, as well as poster/demonstration abstracts. Major topics covered include: commercial, business, professional, and community applications; education applications; electronic publishing and digital libraries; ergonomic, interface, and cognitive issues; general Web tools and facilities; medical applications of the Web; \personal applications and environments;, societal issues, including legal, standards, and international issues; and Web technical facilities. (MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Web Net 2 World Conference Alb U.S. DEPARTMENT OF office of Educational ResearchEDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) This document has beenreproduced as received from the personor organization G.H. Marks originating it. 61 Minor changeshave been made to improve reproductionquality. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinionsstated in this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarilyrepresent official OERI positionor policy. Edited by Gordon Davies & Charles Owen Proceedings of Web Net 2000 World Conference on the VVVVW and Internet San Antonio, Texas; October 30-November 4, 2000 Association for the AA Advancement of Computing in Education BEST COPY AVAILABLE 6 Steering Committee: Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College (USA) Vytautas Reklaitis, Kaunas Univ. of Technology (Lithuania) John Boot, Motorola (USA) Gary Marks, AACE (USA) Antoine Rizk, Euroclid (France) Nick Scherbakov, IICM, Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria) Hermann Maurer, Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria) Gunter Schlageter, Univ. of Hagen (Germany) Charles Owen, Michigan State Univ. (USA) Klaus Schmaranz, IICM, Graz Univ. of Tech. (Austria) Program Committee: Frank Shipman, Texas A&M Univ. (USA) Co-Chairs: Simeon Simoff, Univ. of Sydney (Australia) Gordon Davies, Open Univ. (UK) Marcus Specht, GMD (Germany) Charles Owen, Michigan State Univ. (USA) Daniel Suthers, Univ. of Hawaii (USA) Tutorial/Workshop Chair. Martin Svensson, Univ. of Stockholm/Swedish Institue of Computer Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College (USA) Science (Sweden) Adel Abunawass, Univ. of West Georgia (USA) Bruce Thomas, Univ. of South Australia (Australia) Kenneth Anderson, Univ. of Coloradob (USA) Daniel Tietze, GMD-IPSI (Germany) Li liana Ardissono, Univ. of-Torino (Italy) Klaus Tochtermann, FAW Ulm (Germany) Claire Belisle, LIRE-CNRS (France) Ivan Tomek, Jodrey School of Computer Science (Canada) Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands) Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands) Peter Brusilovsky, Carnegie Mellon Universit (USA) Ellen Walker, Hiram College (USA) John Buford, GTE Laboratories (USA) Martin Wessner, GMD-IPSI (Germany) Licia Calvi, Trinity College (Ireland) Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (USA) SeJin Chung, State of Michigan (USA) Jan Wibe, NTNU (Norway) Moon Jung Chung, Michigan State Univ. (USA) Uffe K. Wiil, Aalborg Univ. Esbjerg (Denmark) Betty Collis, Univ. of Twente (The Netherlands) Erik Wilde, Swiss Federal Institute of Tech. (Switzerland) Paul De Bia, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech. (The Netherlands) Romain Zeiliger, CNRS-GATE (France) Serge Demeyer, Univ. of Berne (Switzerland) Committee for Medical Applications of the Web Erik Duval, K. U. Leuven (Belgium) Steffen Achenbach, Philips Univ. (Germany) Scott Dynes, Executive Perspectives (USA) Clemens Chizzali-Bonfadin, Univ. of Vienna (Austria) John Eklund, Access Online Pty Ltd. (Australia) Paul Compton, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) Allan Ellis, Southern Cross Univ. (Australia) Caroline M. Crawford, Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake (USA) Richard Enbody, Michigan State Univ. (USA) Michael Criley, St. Johns Cardiovascular Research Center (USA) Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State Univ. (USA) Kaye Cussen, Practicing Physician (Australia) Dieter Feltner, Univ. of Technology (Germany) Joan Freedman, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (USA) Richard Furuta, Texas A&M Univ. (USA) William Frederick Gaettinger, Univ. of Reno (USA) Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Giinther Gell, Univ. of Graz (Austria) Peter Gloor, Deloitte Consulting (Switzerland) Kiyonari lnamura, Osaka Univ. (Japan) Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (USA) Monika P. Kuzminska, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (USA) Chetan Gopal, GTE Data Services (USA) Heinz Lemke, Technical Univ. of Berlin (Germany) Nuno Guimaraes, Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal) John Lester, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) Joerg Haake, GMD-IPSI (Germany) Slawomir Lobodzinski, California State Univ. (USA) Joachim Paul Hasebrook, Bank Academy (Germany) Rodger Marion, Univ. of Texas (USA) Colin Hensley, Toyota Motor Europe (Belgium) Herbert K. Matthies, Hannover Medical School (Germany) David Hicks, Aalborg Univ. Esbjerg (Denmark) Eckhard Schneider, Practicing Physician (Germany) Charles Chuck Kacmar, Florida State Univ. (USA) Claus Theisen, Practicing Physician (Germany) Martin Kersten, CWI (The Netherlands) Gita Varagoor, Univ. of Texas (USA) Alfred Kobsa, Univ. of California, Irvine (USA) Peter Waegeman, Medical Records Institute (USA) John Leggett, Texas A&M Univ. (USA) Jack Wilson, Scientific Software Solutions (USA) Jennifer Lennon, Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand) David Levine, St. Bonaventure Univ. (USA) David Lowe, Univ. of Technology (Australia) Paul Maglio, IBM Almaden Research Center (USA) Gary Marks, AACE (USA) Hermann Maurer, IICM, Graz Univ.of Technolgoy (Austria) Maria Teresa Molfino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Italy) Wendy Morgan, Queensland Univ. of Tech. (Australia) Max Muehlhaeuser, Univ. of Linz (Austria) Wolfgang Nejdl, Univ. of Hannover (Germany) Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T LabsResearch (USA) Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Univ. of Oulu (Finland) Susana Pajares Tosca, Univ. 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