CSCW 96 Program: 11/19

Tuesday Program

November 19

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.: Synchronous Work II
Beyond Workflow Systems
11:00 - 12:30 p.m.: Short Papers: Awareness and Synchronous Work
Panel - "From Retrospective to Prospective: The Next Research Agenda for CSCW"
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Work Practices
Techniques for Awareness
3:30 - 7:30 p.m.: Demonstrations (3:30-7:30)
Short Papers: Communities, Cases, Theory, and Entirely New Interfaces (4:00-6:30)
Evening: ACM SIGOIS meeting (7:30-8:30)

[To Program Contents]

Tuesday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Synchronous Work II

Evolutionary Engagement in an Ongoing Collaborative Work Process: A Case Study: Thomas P. Moran, Patrick Chiu, Steve Harrison, Gordon Kurtenbach, Scott Minneman, and William van Melle, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The Social-Technical Design Circle: Vicki L. O'Day, Daniel G. Bobrow and Mark Shirley, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Hypermedia Structures and the Division of Labor in Meeting Room Collaboration: Gloria Mark, Jörg M. Haake, and Norbert A. Streitz, German National Research Center for Information Technology - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute

Beyond Workflow Systems

Generalized Process Structure Grammars (GPSG) for Flexible Representations of Work: Natalie S. Glance, Daniele S. Pagani, and Remo Pareschi, Rank Xerox Research Centre
Freeflow: Mediating Between Representation and Action in Workflow Systems: Paul Dourish, Jim Holmes, Allan MacLean, Pernille Marqvardsen, and Alex Zbyslaw, Rank Xerox Research Centre
Support for Workflows in a Ministerial Environment: Wolfgang Prinz and Sabine Kolvenback, German National Research Center for Information Technology

Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Short Papers: Awareness and Synchronous Work

Red Light, Green Light: Using Peripheral Awareness of Availability to Improve the Timing of Spontaneous Communication: Trace Wax, Stanford University
A Group-oriented Method of Interaction for Informal Communication: Akihiko Obata and Kazuo Sasaki, Fujitsu Laboratories LTD; and Yoshiharu Sato and Hideo Ueno, Fujitsu Kyusyu Communication Systems LTD
Desktopconferencing System Using Multiple Still-Pictures: Desktop MAJIC: Shunsuke Tanaka, Ken-ichi Okada, Shukei Kurihara, and Yutaka Matsushita, Keio University
Facilitating Collaborative Problem Solving with Distant Mentor: Patricia Schank and Mark Schlager, SRI International
Video Contact Affects the Learning of Organizational Routines in Laboratory Studies: Daniel B. Horn and Michael Cohen, University of Michigan
COBRA-Based Cooperative Learning System Using Three-Dimensional Shared Space: Katsumi Hosoya, Akihisa Kawanobe, and Susumu Kakuta, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

Panel

From Retrospective to Prospective: The Next Research Agenda for CSCW: Moderator: Liam Bannon, University of Limerick
Panelists: Terry Winograd, Stanford University; Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC; Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano; and John Bowers, University of Manchester
It is nearly a decade since the appearance of Understanding Computers and Cognition by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores and Plans and Situated Actions by Lucy Suchman. This panel offers a continuation of the debate over some of the foundational issues in CSCW and the premises upon which we act as researchers, designers, developers and potential users of collaborative work systems.

Tuesday, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Work Practices

Walking Away from the Desktop Computer: Distributed Collaboration and Mobility in a Product Design Team: Victoria Bellotti, Apple Computer, Inc.; and Sara Bly, Sara Bly Consulting
Getting Others to Get it Right: An Ethnography of Design Work in the Fashion Industry: James Pycock and John Bowers, University of Manchester
Back to Labor: Returning to Labor Process Discussions in the Study of Work: Joan Greenbaum, University of Oslo

Techniques for Awareness

Thunderwire: A Field Study of an Audio-Only Media Space: Debby Hindus, Interval Research Corp.; Mark S. Ackerman, University of California, Irvine; Scott Mainwaring, Interval Research Corp.; and Brian Starr, University of California, Irvine
Techniques for Addressing Fundamental Privacy and Disruption Tradeoffs in Awareness Support Systems: Scott E. Hudson and Ian Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Usability Study of Awareness Widgets in a Shared Workspace Groupware System: Carl Gutwin, Mark Roseman, and Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary

Tuesday, 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Demonstrations (3:30 - 7:30)

For a more detailed listing that includes abstracts, see: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/prog/demos.html; or click on a title below to see the associated abstract.

In the William Dawes Room:
Iris -- An Environment for Supporting Collaborative Writing in Wide Area Networks: Michael Koch (kochm@informatik.tu-muenchen.de), Institute für Informatik, TU München
Collaborative Survey Polls on the World Wide Web: Richard Frankosky (frankosky@subsys.ENET.dec.com) and Trudi Leone, Digital Equipment Corp.
Room with a View: Ted Selker (selker@almaden.ibm.com) and Jeff Allison, Almaden Research Center
Getting TAPPED IN-to Teacher Professional Development Activities: An On-line Conference Center for Communities of Practice: Mark Schlager (Mark_Schlager@qm.sri.com), Patricia Schank, and Richard Godard, SRI International
Microsoft NetMeeting: Deborah Dubrow (debdu@microsoft.com), Microsoft Corp.
Collaboratory Builder's Environment and Corona: Robert W. Hall, Jang Ho Lee, Hyong Sop Shim, Farnam Jahanian, Terry Weymouth, and Atul Prakash (aprakash@eecs.umich.edu), Software Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Unversity of Michigan
Marmot™: Internet Publishing and Remote Collaboration: Elizabeth G. Hetzler (eg_hetzler@pnl.gov), Alan E. Turner, and Barbara J. Cheney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A PDA-Based Tool for Collaborative Design: Adrienne Warmack (warmack@ucsu.Colorado.edu) and Mark D. Gross, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado; and Wayne Citrin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado
In the Thomas Paine Room:
TeamRoom: Paul Cole (Paul_Cole/Lotus_Institute.LINET@crd.lotus.com), Lotus Institute, Lotus Development Corp.
Collaborative Virtual Workspace: Peter J. Spellman (peter@kagoona.mitre.org), MITRE Corp.
Detailed Collaborative Analysis: Samer Minkara, Ptech Inc.
LearningSpace: Distributed, Collaborative Learning: Peter Rothstein, Lotus Development Corp.
Collaborative Object WorkSpace (COWS): Shariq Khan and Munir Mandviwalla (mandviwa@vm.temple.edu), CIS Department, Temple University
A Shared Language Schema for Fostering Collaboration: Kumar S. Nochur, Vidya Technologies, Inc. (vidya@world.std.com)
GroupLens: John Riedl (riedl@mail.netperceptions.com), Brad Miller, Joe Konstan, & Steven Snyder, Net Perceptions, Inc.
In the Molly Pitcher Room:
Design Issues for CSCW Software for the Desktop and Meeting Room Interactive Displays: Dr. Joerg M. Haake (haake@darmstadt.gmd.de) and Christian Schuckmann, GMD-IPSI; and David Martin (davidmar@smarttech.com), Rob Kremer, and Tom Fukushima, SMART Technologies Inc.
Inhabited Virtual Worlds on the Internet: Bruce Damer (bdamer@ccon.org), Contact Consortium
In the Haym Salomon Room:
Computer Support for Concerted Teamwork: Jay Nunamaker, Bob Briggs (bbriggs@bpa.arizona.edu), and Daniel Mittleman, Ventana Corp.

Short Papers: Communities, Cases, Theory, and Entirely New Interfaces (4:00 - 6:30)

Communities:
Prairie: Supporting Navigation and Social Networks in a Virtualized Organization: Stephen H. Sato, Anatole V. Gershman, and Kishore S. Swaminathan, Andersen Consulting LLP
Enhanced Mailing Lists Server: Active Circulation of Comments on Web Pages: Shinichi Hiraiwa and Youji Kohda, Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
Patterns of Communication Between Reporters and University PR Professionals: The Role of New Communication Technologies in the Rhetorical Practice of Institutional Agents: Jolene Galegher and Gilbert Wilkes, Carnegie Mellon University
Cases:
Medicine in the Dark: Obtaining Design Requirements for a Medical Collaboratory from Observation of Radiologists at Work: Elizabeth Yakel, Stéphane Coté, Thomas Finholt, and Michael Cohen, University of Michigan
Collaborative Interfaces for Customer Service: Catherine Wolf, Shuang Chen, Shahrokh Daijavad, Tong Fin, Tetsu Fujiasaki, Eric Roffman, and Maroun Touma, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Experiences with Distributed, Asynchronous Software Inspection: Michael Stein, Vahid Mashayekhi, and John Reidl, University of Minnesota; and Soren Harner, ICEM Systems, Inc.
To Cook or Not to Cook: A Case Study of Decision Aiding in Quick-Service Restaurant Environments: Ann M. Bisantz, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Sally M. Cohen and Michael Gravelle, NCR Corporation
Theory:
Towards the Definition of a Design Space for Collaborative Systems: M. Teresa Soriano and Jesus Favela, CICESE Research Center
Entirely New Interfaces:
Feather, Scent, and Shaker: Supporting Simple Intimacy: Rob Strong and Bill Gaver, Royal College of Art, London
An Active Microphone Method for CSCW Systems -- Toward Open Co-operative Work Space: Takashi Endo, Masayuki Nakazawa, Toshiro Mukai, Shigeki Nagaya, and Ryuichi Oka, Real World Computing Partnership

Tuesday Evening

ACM SIGOIS meeting (7:30-8:30)

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