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Position papers are due by September 29

Workshops are full-day events that extend the conference experience by providing participants with the opportunity to engage in focused discussions on a particular topic with a small group of like-minded researchers and practitioners.

Participation is limited and based on acceptance of short (3-4 page) position papers, representing views and experience relevant to the workshop topic. Workshop attendance is by invitation of the workshop organizers. Before submitting a position paper, check the workshop web page or email the workshop organizer for additional information.

Position papers should be sent to the email address listed in the workshop descriptions below. Position papers should arrive no later than September 29, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be by October 9, 2000.

There is a fee of $50 for workshop participation, to cover the costs of materials and refreshments. Workshops are an adjunct to the conference and participants are expected to register for the conference. All workshops will be held before the technical program starts on Saturday, December 2 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza in Philadelphia.

Workshops:

• W1: Component-Based Groupware
• W2: Awareness and the WWW
• W3: Spoken and artifact-based coordination (cancelled)
• W4: Classification schemes in cooperative work
• W5: Exploring the Framework of Context Awareness in Cooperative Systems
• W6: Multiple User Interfaces for Cooperative Applications over the Internet (cancelled)
• W7: Lifecycle Support for Collaborative Science
• W8: Shared Environments to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration
• W9: Beyond Workflow Management: Supporting Dynamic Organizational Processes
• W10: Technologies That Cross Boundaries: Exploring the gap between wireless networks, bits, interfaces, and work practices
• W11: Shared Visual Spaces in Face-to-Face and Video-Mediated Collaborative Work
• W12: Dealing with Community Data
• W13: Collaborative Editing Systems

W1: Component-Based Groupware [Salon 1]

Robert Slagter and Henri ter Hofte, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands, and Oliver Stiemerling, University of Bonn, Germany

The CSCW2000 workshop on component-based groupware provides a forum for discussion for researchers from different backgrounds, such as CSCW software development, distributed systems, component-based software and group communication.

We will discuss ways to combine approaches, as well as benefits, the state of the art, requirements and a research agenda. Results will support researchers, designers and software engineers in the design and implementation of groupware applications. The workshop should contribute to enhanced insight in the domain, provide a venue for feedback on research-in-progress, and the basis for further research.

The topics of interest for this workshop include:

• CSCW component software architectures;
• Types of components and how should they relate?
• Key requirements and experiences developing component-based groupware systems/frameworks;
• Enhancing existing component-based platforms for support of CSCW software engineering;
• End-user composability versus design-time composabilty and its effect on component groupware architectures;
• Standards for communication between components within and between different groupware systems.

Send submissions to:

Robert Slagter Telematica Instituut PO Box 589 7500 AN Enschede, Netherlands

email: cbg2000@telin.nl phone: +31 53 4850 488 fax: +31 53 4850 400 web: http://www.telin.nl/cbg2000

W2: Awareness and the WWW [Salon 4]

Olivier Liechti and Yasuyuki Sumi, ATR MIC Labs, Japan

Awareness issues are becoming increasingly meaningful in the context of the WWW. The first reason is that Web technologies provide an implementation platform for awareness tools, with many benefits. The emergence of information appliances (not only mobile devices but also kiosks and public displays) is making the Web even more appealing to CSCW designers.

The second reason is that the WWW itself is becoming an activity space, which people should be made more "aware" of. For instance, information consumers should be able to "see" and meet each other when they visit related places on the Web. Also, information publishers should be able get a better idea of what is happening on their sites, in more natural, continuous and effortless ways.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various backgrounds, having interest in one or both of these two aspects. We invite contributions from CSCW experts who have designed and evaluated awareness systems using Web technologies, such as media spaces, group awareness tools and persistent shared workspaces. We also seek for contributions from WWW and HCI experts, who have designed systems for making users aware of the activity occurring on the Web. Some of the systems we have in mind are collaborative browsers, on-line matchmaking tools, and ambient user interfaces.

Send submissions to:

Olivier Liechti ATR MIC Labs Seika-cho, Soraku-gun Kyoto 619-0288 Japan

email: olivier@mic.atr.co.jp phone: +81 774 95 1445 fax: +81 774 95 1408 web: http://www2.mic.atr.co.jp/dept2/awareness

W3: Spoken and artifact-based coordination (CANCELLED)

Peter Bøgh Andersen and Morten Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Peter H. Carstensen, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This workshop has been cancelled.

W4: Classification schemes in cooperative work [Salon 6]

Kjeld Schmidt, Technical University, Denmark, Carla Simone, University of Torino, Italy, and Susan Leigh Star, University of California, San Diego, USA

Common information spaces, i.e., the shared repositories of cooperative communities, are a ubiquitous feature of modern work settings that have been the subject of a great deal of research in CSCW (under labels such as 'organizational memory' and 'knowledge management' as well). However, a central problem in this context has so far not been investigated systematically within CSCW, namely the classification schemes that communities use for managing their shared repositories and, more specifically, the distributed practices through which classification schemes are developed and maintained.

The objectives of the workshop are to direct attention to this problem, collate and inspect available empirical evidence as well as innovative technologies, identify crucial research issues, and, in doing so, establish a network of CSCW researchers working on these issues.

Send submissions to:

Kjeld Schmidt Center for Tele-Information Technical University of Denmark Building 371 DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark

email: schmidt@intermedia.dtu.dk phone: +45 45 25 5174 web: http://www.cti.dtu.dk/projects/cscw/cis.html

W5: Exploring the Framework of Context Awareness in Cooperative Systems [Parlor D]

Ted Selker and Winslow Burleson, MIT Media Lab, USA

Context aware computing deals with gathering information through non-explicit inputs and appropriately applying this information to assist users in task performance. It is becoming an increasingly important topic in the fields of HCI and CSCW.

This workshop proposes to discuss a framework in which context aware sensor, artificial intelligence, and effector based computers coexist in the world. This framework should be of great value to the production of cooperative context aware systems as well as a guide for directing further research efforts.

The tension between specific solutions and generalized infrastructures has always existed. In the context aware computing environment it becomes even more poignant because in many ways it deals with how much context can be achieved, how many things you can understand, and how general the interfaces are.

Research experiences and position statements will be presented in an effort to develop a focused community on these issues. We will explore how in a world of non-standardized components context aware computing can emerge, survive, and progress as well as how to make the most of context aware systems and applications.

Send submissions to:

Joan Wood attn: CSCW2000 Workshop MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

email: jwood@media.mit.edu or win@media.mit.edu phone: +1 617 253 0291 fax: +1 617 258 0910 web: http://web.mit.edu/mloh/www/CAC/CSCW2000.html

W6: Multiple User Interfaces for Cooperative Applications over the Internet (CANCELLED)

Ahmed Seffah, Concordia University, Canada and Gerome Canals, LORIA-Campus Scientifique, France

This workshop has been cancelled.

W7: Lifecycle Support for Collaborative Science [Salon 2]

Richard M. Keller, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA and Jon Guice, RIACS, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA

The focus of this workshop is the application of CSCW theory, tools, and techniques to the practice of day-to-day scientific work. Most prior work on scientific collaboration has focused on support within a single phase of the scientific lifecycle, e.g., experimentation. In contrast, this workshop will explore how CSCW tools can be used to support and integrate work performed throughout the scientific lifecycle -- from proposal generation through experiment design, experimentation, data collection, analysis, and publication. Workshop activities are intended to identify open research issues and foci unique to this community. We wish to invite participants who will share: Characterizations of routine scientific work practice. Analyses of phase-specific requirements for collaborative science support. Strategies for building tools serving multiple scientific communities. Reports on limitations of technology supporting scientific work. Insights into the impacts of e-commerce and scientific information services on the practice of science. Accounts of social barriers to information-sharing in science. Reflections on methodologies for studying scientific teams.

Send submissions to:

Rich Keller Computational Sciences Division NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop 269-2 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA

email: keller@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov phone: +1 650 604 3388 fax: +1 650 604 3594 web: http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/cscw2000

W8: Shared Environments to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration [Salon 5]

Kori Inkpen, Regan Mandryk, and Stacey Scott, Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Saul Greenberg and Ana Zanella, University of Calgary, Canada

As computer technology continues to move off the desktop and into the many facets of our lives, the need to support collaboration is growing rapidly. Better technical solutions are needed to support users face-to-face collaborative interactions in a variety of domains, including at work, home, and school.

Technical advances such as large screen displays, support for multiple input devices, coordination of distributed room displays, and collaborative tangible interfaces will provide better support for small-group interactions. Research on issues of privacy and awareness, collaborative interfaces, social artifacts, and better ways to transition between individual and collaborative sessions will also facilitate the collaborative process. This workshop provides researchers a forum to discuss and brainstorm about shared environments for face-to-face collaboration. The goal is to bring together individuals with common research interests to identify emergent directions. This workshop will allow individuals with diverse and complementary research experiences to build a collective understanding of the issues surrounding user interactions in shared environments.

Send submissions to:

Kori Inkpen School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

email: inkpen@cs.sfu.ca phone: +1 604 268 6605 fax: +1 604 291 3045 web: http://www.edgelab.sfu.ca/CSCW/shared_environments.html

W9: Beyond Workflow Management: Supporting Dynamic Organizational Processes [Seminar A]

Abraham Bernstein, New York University, USA and Stefan Jablonski, Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet, Germany

Today's organizations are characterized by dynamic, uncertain and error-prone environments. In order to effectively support processes in such contexts, systems must be developed, which support truly dynamic organizational processes.

Existing workflow management systems have typically been focused on dealing with exceptions and have thus offered some type of approach to support adaptive processes. These types of systems, however, have typically overlooked emergent processes, which seem to encompass an increasing part of organized activity.

The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers a rare opportunity to discuss and brainstorm the social as well as technical considerations that have to flow into the design of systems to support truly dynamic organizational processes that include both adaptive as well as emergent organizational processes.

Send submissions to:

Abraham Bernstein Department of Information Systems Stern School of Business New York University 44 West 4th Street, Rm 9-77 New York, NY 10012-1126, USA

email: bernstein@stern.nyu.edu phone: +1 212 998 0803 fax: +1 212 995 4228 web: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~abernste/cscw2000/

W10: Technologies That Cross Boundaries: Exploring the gap between wireless networks, bits, interfaces, and work practices [Salon 3]

Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jonathan Trevor, and Catherine C. Marshall, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA

The proliferation of mobile technologies is challenging notions of appropriate places for work. These technologies by their very nature move through private and public spaces. We have access to others and to our data, anywhere, anytime; we can be in contact, available for social and work interactions, while carrying some of our most critical and sensitive data across physical and social boundaries. Previously, design has focused on the cognitive affordances of the interfaces and the social affordances of the group in which it fits. Now we need to think about the implications that situational affordances bring. In this workshop we will explore what this means for the design of systems, interfaces, networks and data. We encourage those with:

• Accounts of mobile CSCW.
• Analyses of embedded assumptions about accessibility, availability and connectivity in mobile designs.
• Experience in the design of mobile CSCW systems.
• Fieldwork reports and methodological reflections for studying mobile cooperative work.

Send submissions to:

Elizabeth Churchill FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. 3400 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA, 94034, USA

email: churchill@pal.xerox.com phone: +1 650 813 7700 fax: +1 650 813 7081 web: http://www.fxpal.xerox.com/ConferencesWorkshops/CSCW2000-2.htm

W11: Shared Visual Spaces in Face-to-Face and Video-Mediated Collaborative Work [Parlor B]

Robert E. Kraut, Susan R. Fussell, Jane Siegel, and Jie Yang, CMU, USA, and Susan E. Brennan, SUNY Stoney Brook, USA

Studies of video technologies in collaborative work have yielded mixed results about benefits for communication and performance. In this workshop we strive to develop a theoretical and empirical framework to better understand the role of visual information in collaborative work and to make informed design decisions about video technologies. Each panel presentation/ discussion session focuses on one of 3 goals:

1. a conversational coding scheme that captures how people make use of shared visual space when they converse face-to-face,
2. a taxonomy of collaborative physical tasks that illuminates the relationships between task attributes and needs for shared visual information, and
3. a set of recommendations for the design and implementation of video technologies to support "virtual" shared spaces in remote collaborative physical work.

Attendees will present at one panel and participate in the discussion for the other two. Interested participants should indicate their choice of panel and provide a brief (one or two paragraph) description of the work they will present and its relation to the themes and goals of the workshop.

Send submissions to:

Susan R. Fussell, Ph.D. HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

email: susan.fussell@cmu.edu phone: +1 412 268 4003 fax: +1 412 268 1266 web: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~visual_copresence/CSCW2000_Workshop

W12: Dealing with Community Data [Parlor A]

Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Thomas Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA, Danyel Fisher, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Christopher Lueg, University of Zurich, Switzerland

As online communities move through their life cycles, most are continually accreting data, both as user-visible content and in behind-the-scenes data logs. This workshop will focus on the collection, use, and analysis of this data. We will examine storage and logging mechanisms, discuss both qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis, and consider ways in which this data -- the history of a community's activities -- might be used by its members, its administrators, and by researchers.

Send submissions to:

Danyel Fisher Dept. of Computer Science University of California, Berkeley 417 Soda Hall #1776 Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA

email: danyelf@cs.berkeley.edu phone: +1 510 642 8149 fax: +1 510 642 5775 web: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~danyelf/cscw2000

W13: Collaborative Editing Systems [Salon 9]

Du Li, Texas A & M, USA, Jeffrey Campbell, University of Pittsburgh, USA, David Chen and Chengzheng Sun, Griffith University, Australia, Clarence Ellis, University of Colorado, USA, and Matthia Ressel, UBS AG, Switzerland

Collaborative editing systems are an important category of groupware which support a group of users to edit the same document collaboratively over the computer networks synchronously or asynchronously. Interesting document types include text, graphics objects, multimedia data, and diagrams. A wide variety of research areas contribute to collaborative editing including group awareness, concurrency control, social interaction, usability and human factors as well as areas such as distributed computing. We organized a very successful workshop on collaborative editing systems joint with the ACM Group'99 Conference. In this ACM CSCW 2000 workshop, we would like a more in-depth discussion of the following topics: concurrency control and consistency maintenance in group editors, usability study of group editors and human factors, social aspects of collaborative editing, and application of group editing techniques and algorithms in distributed applications.

Send submissions to:

Du Li Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA

email: lidu@cs.tamu.edu phone: +1 979 845 0537 fax: +1 979 847 8578 web: http://csdl.tamu.edu/~lidu/iwces2/

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