CFP: Doctoral Workshop for PHD students at ICIC 2010

Call For Participation: ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop

ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration
August 19-20, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

The ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop is a forum for Ph.D. students doing
research in the area of intercultural collaboration to meet and
discuss their work with each other and an international panel of
experienced researchers. The workshop will be held on Wednesday
August 18, the day before the ICIC 2010 conference begins. For more
details on the conference itself, see
http://langrid.nict.go.jp/icic2010/

Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already well-established
direction of research relevant to culture and collaboration, and who
would benefit from attendance at the Doctoral Workshop. We welcome
applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches,
including anthropology, cognitive science, computer science,
information science, linguistics, organizational studies, psychology,
sociology, and related fields.

The Workshop committee will select approximately 12-15 participants
who will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their
work during the Workshop, to be followed by extensive group
discussion. Selected participants will receive complimentary
conference registration. Additional support may be available, but
this cannot be guaranteed.

Applicants should submit the following items to
icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp by April 15 2010:

(a) An overview of your doctoral research that describes your
research question and methodological approach, work in progress, and
expected contributions. This overview should also include a paragraph
that articulates what you hope to get from attending the ICIC
Doctoral Workshop. This document should be formatted according to
the ACM SIGCHI template and submitted in PDF format. Please see the
SIGCHI author instruction page
(http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information
and downloadable templates.

(b) A one paragraph biographical sketch

(c) An email letter from your academic advisor/supervisor sent to
icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp by April 15, 2010, indicating that
they support your application to the colloquium and that they agree
that your research is at an appropriate stage for participation.

Please email questions to icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp.

We look forward to your workshop applications.

Susan Fussell, Cornell University
ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop Co-Chair

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CFP 2010 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (USA)

Call for Participation:

2010 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems:
13-17 June, 2009
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA (www.skamania.com)

We are seeking 30 scholars to join the outstanding set of mentors for this
year?s Summer Research Institute

If you are an advanced doctoral student, post-doctoral scholar or pre-tenure
faculty at a US-based institution, you are eligible to participate.

Application screening begins 1 March, 2010 with notification by early April,
2010. Application requirements can be found below.

Most costs will be covered for accepted participants.

Background
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A multi-disciplinary science of socio-technical systems is emerging from
research in the fields of CSCW, social computing, social informatics, the
sociology of computing, HCI, organizational studies, ICT for development,
medical informatics, information systems, library and information science,
and other related intellectual communities. To support this, the Consortium
for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST, see http://sociotech.net)
was established in 2007 as an organization devoted to advocating for this
intellectual movement.

Building on the successes of the 2008 and 2009 Summer Research Institutes,
the CSST will, with generous support by the National Science Foundation,
again be organizing a summer research institute for advanced doctoral
students and pre-tenure faculty to be held 13-17 June, 2010. A primary goal
of the institute is to build a trans-disciplinary cohort of scholars who
examine the complex interplay among the technical and the social across all
levels of analysis: individuals, groups, organizations, cultures, and
society.

Examples of this kind of work include research on:
* new forms of organizing (e.g., virtual organizations, massive online
activities)
* social computing (e.g., online communities, online social networks);
* distributed work (e.g., collaboratories, virtual teams);
* emerging technologies (e.g., recommender systems, prediction markets);
* novel forms of production (e.g., open source software, Wikipedia);
* new forms of expression and entertainment (e.g., blogs, wikis, massively
multiplayer online games); and
* information and communication technologies for developing regions
(e.g., cell phone-based applications to assist economic development,
infrastructure development for local economic action).

2010 Institute Mentors
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. Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University, Director
. Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
. Geoff Bowker, University of Pittsburgh
. Brian Butler, University of Pittsburgh
. Christine Halverson, IBM Corporation
. C. Suzanne Iacono, National Science Foundation
. David McDonald, National Science Foundation
. Christine Neuwirth, Carnegie Mellon University
. Gary Olson, University of California, Irvine
. Judith Olson, University of California, Irvine
. Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation
. Susan Leigh Starr, University of Pittsburgh
. Michael Twidale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Institute goals
-----------------
The goals of the institute are to:
* Expand on and strengthen connections among researchers in this area,
linking across intellectual communities and further building upon the
network of relations formed through the 2008 and 2009 Summer Research
Institutes.
* Guide the work of the new researchers by interacting with experts in the
sciences of socio-technical systems.
* Provide encouragement and support for the selection of socio-technical
systems research topics.
* Illustrate both the connection among and diversity of the fields that
contribute to socio-technical systems research.

How the institute will be conducted
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The institute will be conducted as a residential program at Skamania Lodge
(www.skamania.com) with a combination of small group sessions devoted to
providing feedback on participants? research and larger group sessions
consisting of panels and presentations led by the institute mentors. These
sessions will cover research topics such as core principles and viable
methods and also career development, how to obtain funding, and publication
strategies. Time will be reserved for informal recreational activities.
Costs of participation, including travel, food and accommodations, are
covered thanks to the funding provided by the NSF.

How to apply
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The application process requires two parts:

1. A 350 word response to the question: ?How will your research contribute
to advancing our scientific understanding of socio-technical systems??

In responding to this question, please also explain what you mean by
socio-technical. You may also want to include a core or defining reference
that guides your work in this area.

2. A current curriculum vitae.

Please email your application materials as attachments (in PDF or in a
common word processing format) to csst2010@syr.edu with the email subject
line being ?CSST 2010 Application?

If you have questions, contact Steve Sawyer or Wayne Lutters directly.

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CFP: Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection

**** Call for Papers ****

*** Please distribute ***

Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection

in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki, Finland

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

The main goal of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how
mobile and wearable pico projectors could be combined with new user
interfaces, interaction techniques and applications. We seek for new
ideas, prototypes, and insights as a basis to develop a deeper
understanding of the field.

In addition, we will provide an open forum to share information,
results, and ideas on current research in this area. This workshop
encourages discussion about future topics concerning personal
projection. Furthermore, we aim to develop new ideas on how such
devices can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the
environment.

We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned
with design, development, and implementation of new applications and
services using personal mobile and wearable projectors in their user
interfaces. Moreover, the workshop aims at conveying hands-on
experience with current state-of-the-art technology and prototypes
through demonstration sessions.

** Important Dates **

February 1, 2010: Submission Deadline

March 1, 2010: Author Notification

March 31, 2010: Submission of camera-ready version

May 17, 2010: Workshop in Helsinki, Finland

** Website and more Information **

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

if you have any additional questions please contact us via
ubiproject@comp.lancs.ac.uk

** Organizers **

Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK

Johannes Schöning, DFKI, Germany

Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research Center Tampere, Finland

Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

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ITS 2010, Saarbrücken Germany
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
http:/www.its2010.org
http://twitter.com/ITS_Germany2010
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Johannes Schöning
Innovative Retail Laboratory
DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
www.innovative-retail.de
www.dfki.de/~jschoen
www.dfki.de
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff

Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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Sent from Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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CFP: Final call for submissions to ISCRAM 2010

ISCRAM2010: 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

DEFINING CRISIS MANAGEMENT 3.0
 
May 2-5 2010
Crown Plaza Hotel
Seattle, Washington USA

Just over another couple of weeks to submit short papers, discussions and practitioner reports.  We already have over 80 full research papers submitted to and under review for ISCRAM2010.  Alongside their presentation of completed work and new findings we are anxious to have a number of shorter work-in-progress papers, practitioner reports, discussions, panels and other presentations that will stimulate wide discussion and shape future thinking.  You have until January 18th to submit these.  If you have ideas or suggestions that you wish to discuss please email us on iscram2010@iscram.org.




UPDATE

Submission of work-in-progress, discussions, and practitioner papers remains open until January 18th 2010.

When submission of full research papers closed at the end of November, over 80 papers had been submitted and these are now going through full double-blind, academic peer review.  However, ISCRAM conferences are much more than presentations of research results.  They are full of vibrant discussion and networking opportunities.  We are still seeking three types of submission to stimulate discussion, focus on practitioner needs and priorities and explore research still in progress:

1.        Work in progress and discussion papers.  
2.        Practitioner reports and discussions which raise issues, examples and case studies, examples of best practices, improvements, and significant insights or examples.  
3.        Demonstrations.

** NOTE ** if anyone wishes to discuss ideas for a discussion paper or panel before submitting their proposal on the submission site, please email iscram2010@iscram.org

Full  details of the calls are available at www.iscram.org.  

There is also a call for participation in the doctoral colloquium: see www.iscram.org.

Submissions should be made through www.conftool.com/ISCRAM2010.

ISCRAM conferences present the latest findings from academia and the field on the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of information systems in the domain of crisis management and response, through a unique program of academic research, practitioner cases and technology demonstrations, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and social events. As always the conference will be multi-disciplinary drawing together perspectives from across all socio-technological domains. Human behaviours are as important to us as the technologies that enable us to
share information and situation assessments quickly and in increasing volumes.  The theme for ISCRAM2010 is Defining Crisis Management 3.0.  Our aim is to look forward at the conference and consider how our rapidly changing technologies may change the way that we respond to crises in our ever more interconnected world.  While we particularly solicit papers, discussions, case studies and demonstrations emphasising the conference theme,  we welcome papers covering all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management.

Further details of ISCRAM2010, as they become clear, will be published on http://www.iscram.org and through its discussion and mailing lists.

We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!!

Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair
Simon French, Programme Chair
Brian Tomaszewski, Program co-Chair

MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.iscram.org
ISCRAM group on Facebook
Email: iscram2010@iscram.org




Simon French
Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB, UK
T: +44-161-275-6401.  M: +44-7739-825358.  F: +44-161-306-3518.  E: simon.french@mbs.ac.uk

Secretary: Linda Stocks
T: +44-161-306-68984.  E: Linda.Stocks@mbs.ac.uk

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CFP: Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems

(CTS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Chicago, Illinois, USA May 17-21, 2010 In
Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending)

http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010

Brief Description:

Dynamic, on-demand, whole life-cycle, multi-domain, coalition, fusion between
security technologies and models.

Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project. Security services are an important component of the collaboration infrastructure that ensures normal uninterruptible reliable operation of the collaborative systems. The open Internet and networking environment, over which the modern collaborative systems operate, impose a number of common and specific security threats and attacks (spamming, worms, session hijacking, buffer overflow, denial of service, social engineering, etc.). Collaborative organizations require better security properties (strong authentication, efficient encryption, Mandatory Access Control, integrity, non-repudiation and availability). Nowadays, collaborative organizations use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, collaborative organizations and technologies face several challenges in the field of security.

This Workshop on Security and Collaboration, to be held as part of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'10), will focus on security issues related to collaborative systems with emphasis on distributed environments, Grid and cloud based resource virtualisation and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation. The aim is to have a dedicated workshop that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The workshop will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present new ideas and solutions addressing modern security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, enable intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology.

Workshop topics must address security and collaboration:
* Frameworks for Security in Collaborative Systems
* Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications
* Security models for emerging Cloud Computing
* High performance optical networking infrastructure for collaboration
* Access Control in Collaborative Environments
* Role Based Access Control, Reputation, and Trust
* Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems
* Security Context Management in Scientific Workflow Applications
* Security models and infrastructure for Complex Resource Provisioning in Distributed Collaborative Systems, supporting the whole life-cycle of the provisioned resources
* Security model for Coalition Networks combining on-demand provisioned multilayer infrastructure for communications, Information exchange and human interaction
* Security standards and security education
* Relation between Infrastructure security, information security and security management
* Policy driven SLA negotiation
* Privacy Protection for Collaborative Systems
* Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems, including group oriented and Identity Based Cryptography
* Security for Specific Collaboration Domains (e.g., e-Government, e-Business, Public Services, P2P, e-Social Security, Medical Collaboration, etc.)
* Virtual Organisations and dynamic security associations
* Trust and reputation management in dynamic environment
* Web Services Security
* Security in multi agent systems
* Secure collaborative agents
* Using multi agent systems for security
* Middleware Security
* Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration
* Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
* Usability and security
* Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments
* Honeypots for Collaborative Systems
* Intrusion and Attacks Detection for Collaborative Systems
* Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems
* Disclosure and Integrity Issues
* Resistance to Denial of Service
* Detection and Self-Recovery Schemes and Strategies Supporting Cooperation

Submission Instructions:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and any other related topics are solicited. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript not to exceed 8 pages in length in single-space, two columns IEEE format Conference style. If accepted the final camera ready version will be following the CTS 2010 template and requirements to be posted on the CTS web site. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format uploaded at http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/. For other electronic formats, please check with the organizers.

Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers in the Workshop are required to be presented and will be included in the Symposium proceedings. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the web site later.

Further instructions will be provided at
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/.

Organizers Information:
Dr. Patrice Clemente and Dr. Jean-François Lalande
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
ENSI-Bourges
10 Bld Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex France
Emails: patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr , jean-francois.lalande@ensi-bourges.fr

Dr. Yuri Demchenko
System and Network Engineering Group
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 107, 1098XG, Amsterdam
Email: y.demchenko@uva.nl

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members.

Program committee chair: Prof. Christian Toinard
LIFO, ENSI-Bourges, France

Pr. Julien Bourgeois, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Jorge R. Cuellar, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Germany
Dr. Nora Cuppens, ENST Bretagne, France
Dr. Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Eric Dubois, Centre d'Innovation par les Technologies de
l'Information, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Dr. Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Jean-Bernard Fischer, Nagra, France
Mr. Vincent Glaume, CEA, France
Pr. Claude Godart, INRIA Lorraine, France
Pr. Hervé Guyennet, LIFC, France
Dr. Vincent Louis, France Telecom R&D, France
Dr. Volkmar Lotz, SAP, France
Pr. Philippe Mathieu, University of Lille, France
Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA
Dr. Franck Panaget, France Telecom R&D, France
Pr. Pierre Paradinas, CNAM Paris, France
Dr. Emmanuel Prouff, Oberthur Card Systems, France
Dr. Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA Lorraine, France
Dr. Luca Spalazzi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Pr. Pascal Urien, ENST, France

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Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: ---------- January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: ------------------ February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: ---------- March 3, 2010
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For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers.

For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panels, posters, workshops and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs:
Bill McQuay at AFRL/RYT, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil), or
Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).

Thank you very much.

Best Wishes and Regards.

COLSEC 2010 Organizers

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CFP: CHI workshop on Models of Social Information Systems

Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems

CHI 2010 workshop
April 11th, 2010
Atlanta,Georgia,USA

Note: Deadline is Jan 6th, 2010.

Website:http://www.humanfactors.uiuc.edu/cognitivemodelworkshop/

The main goal of this workshop is to connect researchers from
different areas whose work focuses on the development of
models of user behavior in social information systems. Our hope is to
integrate ideas from diverse domains such as (but not limited to) HCI,
cognitive science, AI, psychology, computer science, information
science, and computational linguistics to generate novel perspectives
on understanding, characterizing, and predicting system
characteristics and user behavior at both the individual and aggregate/
social levels. We also hope that his workshop will provide a venue for
researchers in both academia and industry to discuss the use of
cognitive models to inform designs of future social information
systems in diverse application areas.

We broadly define social information systems as systems that support
social functions. Difference forms of social information systems have
gained significant popularity over the last decade. For example,
social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and social
tagging systems such as del.icio.us and CiteUlike.org attract several
thousand users a day. While serving different social functions, these
systems provide its users increased social presence and opportunities
for easy collaboration and social interaction. User behavior on these
systems has been generally conducted based on analysis of snapshots of
long-term user interaction patterns such as logs of user activities,
connections between users, etc. But, very little is known about the
cognitive mechanisms underlying these interactions. A good
understanding of the individual cognitive mechanisms is important for
engineering better interface representations and interaction methods
that support user behavior in social systems. Additionally, models
that aim at characterizing these mechanisms can complement existing
research and provide a basis for a more complete explanation of
emergent social and collaborative behavior in social information
systems.

Submission

We welcome submission from researchers and practitioners who are
interested in developing computational models of social information
systems. We particularly welcome submissions from diverse disciplines,
and we welcome and value suggestions about themes or directions of
research related to this area.

Please submit an 3-5 page research or position paper about your work.
Papers will be reviewed and selected based on their relevance to the
workshop and ability to contribute to the discussion.

Email your paper, in PDF, to socialcog2010@gmail.com with the subject
line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models Workshop" by Jan 6th, 2010.
Authors will be notified by January 20th, 2010. Papers should be in
the ACM SIGCHI submissions format.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us by email
directly.

Organizers
Wai-Tat Fu & Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
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Wai-Tat Fu
wfu@illinois.edu
Assistant Professor
Human Factors Division and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
http://appliedcogsci.vp.uiuc.edu

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CFP: ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

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ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

April 10, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
http://www.caicoll.org
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WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop addresses facilitation of collaborative work by context-adaptive techniques. Context-based adaptation can support users in a variety of ways, e.g., by offering the tools most appropriate for a certain type of collaboration, by providing templates for artifacts to be produced, or by filtering content relevant for a joint activity. While adaptive (single) user interfaces have been an area of research for considerable time adaptation for collaboration is far less investigated.

The notion of context in collaborative work raises a variety of interesting research issues. So far, attempts to structure and classify the multi-faceted concept of context have been mainly directed at individual, rather than cooperative usage scenarios. The importance of common ground, e.g., for electronically mediated communication has been pointed out repeatedly, but theoretical concepts have hardly been translated into explicit models or concrete adaptation mechanisms. We also see a major challenge in integrating 'exogenous' physical context such as location, time or device used with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, topical interests, experience profiles or used collaboration tools. For this purpose, integrated, coherent representations of these context aspects will be needed, making them explicit and exploitable by adaptation mechanisms. Ontology-based context models promise to provide coherent representations but are still in their initial stages. Other important issues are how to combine individual contexts into shared collaborative contexts, and how to combine folksonomy-based bottom-up approaches with the benefits of standardization that ontologies traditionally provide. Finally, it is largely unresolved how to define effective and acceptable adaptations for groups. While there has been a considerable amount of research into supporting co-located or remote meetings, more general issues of supporting collaboration by adaptations are still open.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaborative work, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context including physical and tool-related aspects, common ground related to content and process of the collaboration, and other factors. We will also discuss strategies and methods for making these context aspects explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. These models will serve as input for discussions on how to manage and use such context in real-world scenarios. These activities will serve laying the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for this area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

An initial list of research issues discussed at the workshop comprises the following questions:
- How can the multi-faceted concept of context be structured and classified for cooperative situations?
- What are methods for integrating 'endogenous' physical context with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, activities, topical interests or experience profiles?
- How to combine individual contexts into group contexts?
- What are suitable models and techniques for representing context for the purpose of adapting cooperation support systems? Is there a perspective for a shared context ontology for cooperative work?
- What are effective and acceptable adaptations at the interaction, tool or content level we can implement in systems used for collaboration?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Context plays an increasingly important role to adapt systems to users' needs and to make access to large information spaces more efficient. Yet, in the area of collaborative work the potential of context-based adaptation of IT systems has so far not been investigated and exploited to a sufficient extent. There is a lack of methods that take into account the manifold aspects of context such as physical, activity-based, thematic or social context in an integrated fashion.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaboration, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context for this field. We will discuss strategies and methods for making these context factors explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. A potential outcome is to provide the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for cooperative work. A further goal is to collect and analyze methods for managing and using context in real-world scenarios, including combinations of folksonomy- and ontology-based approaches.

Persons interested in participating should submit a 2-page proposal describing their background with respect to the workshop theme, their proposed contribution and an initial reaction to a number of research issues published at the workshop website (http://caicoll.org). Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicol.org. Upon acceptance, participants will be asked to provide an extended position paper of 5 pages four weeks prior to the workshop which will be distributed to participants. Workshop results will be summarized on the website. Depending on the submissions received we plan to publish the workshop results to a wider audience, e.g. as a special journal issue.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicoll.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2010
Revised, formatted document due: March 10, 2010
Workshop date: April 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS

Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Joerg M. Haake (FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany)
Volkmar Pipek (University of Siegen, Germany)

WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE

http://www.caicoll.org
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Volkmar Pipek
Assistant Professor for 'CSCW in organisations'/FB 5
University of Siegen
Hoelderlinstr. 3
57068 Siegen
http://www.cscw.uni-siegen.de/
Tel.: +49 271 740 4068
Fax.: +49 271 740 3384
volkmar.pipek@uni-siegen.de

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