CFP: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Call for papers: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Santa Barbara, CA , 24 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,
exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 12 December 2010
* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011
* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage:http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio
processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing
computational models of human interaction in realistic social settings.
Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to acquire
behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and mobile
sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes communication
between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an emerging body of
research has been shifting towards communicative social behavior in
natural situations, with examples such as informal conversational
settings, general workplace environments, interviews, and meeting
scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on
computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.
Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference, we
would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of human
communication and on the applications that are built on top of it. We
welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the analysis of
gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational environments
to model social behavior in everyday life and reason about them. We also
strongly encourage the participation of colleagues from behavioral
sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social interaction provide
highly valuable information, concepts, and frameworks to guide automatic
analysis, while efforts in automatic analysis of social behavior provide
new tools, data, and insights to behavioral scientists interested in
nonverbal behavior and social interaction.

We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive) list
of topics:

Social behavior analysis
* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:
o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head
gestures, actions ...)
o Multimodal affect recognition
o Nonverbal cues from other sensors
* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation, and
prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest level,
dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties affecting
it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)
* Analysis of conversational dynamics
* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior
* Smart camera/microphone systems
* Novel sensor technologies
* Wearable devices
* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications
* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop
* Individual and group self-awareness
* Educational applications
* Workplace applications
* Healthcare applications
* Game applications
* Art& creative applications

Organizers:
Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California
Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: October 04, 2010 ***

*** Please register abstracts before September 26, 2010 **

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Call for Papers
Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 23-25, 2011
http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu
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IWSOS 2011 is the fifth workshop in a series of multidisciplinary events
dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems.

The concept of self-organization is becoming increasingly popular in
various branches of technology. A self-organizing system may be
characterized by global, coordinated activity arising spontaneously from
local interactions between the system's components. This activity is
distributed over all components, without a central controller
supervising or directing the behavior. Self-organization relates the
behavior of the individual components (the microscopic level) to the
resulting structure and functionality of the overall system (the
macroscopic level). Simple interactions at the microscopic level may
give rise to complex, adaptive, and robust behavior at the macroscopic
level.

The necessity of self-organization in networks and networked systems is
caused by the growing scale, complexity, and dynamics of future
networked systems. This is because traditional methods tend to be
reductionistic, i.e., they neglect the effect of interactions between
components. However, in complex networked systems, interactions cannot
be ignored, since they are relevant for the future state of the system.
In this sense, self-organization becomes a useful approach for dealing
with the complexity inherent in networked systems.

The workshop addresses self-organization different types of
technological networks, for example, but not limited to:

* Communication and computer networks
* Transportation networks
* Energy networks
* Robot networks

Research from related fields is also welcome. Building on the success of
its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading
international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the
future of self-organization in networked systems.

**Key Topics**

* Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
* Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems
* Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems, including
self-protection, diagnosis, and healing
* Self-configuration and self-optimization
* Self-organizing group and pattern formation
* Self-organizing synchronization
* Self-organizing resource allocation
* Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation and coordination
* Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
* Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems
* Structure and dynamics of self-organizing networks
* Risks and limits of self-organization
* The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
* User and operator-related aspects of human-made self-organizing
systems
* Applications of self-organizing networks and networked systems
* Peer-to-peer networks, vehicular networks, zeroconfiguration
protocols
* Autonomous traffic lights, self-organized cruise control
* Decentralized power management in the smart grid
* Collaborative unmanned ground or aerial vehicles, mobile sensor
networks

**Important Dates**

* Abstract Submission: September 26, 2010
* Extended Full Paper Submission: October 04, 2010
* Notification: November 17, 2010
* Camera-ready papers due: December 01, 2010
* Conference: February 23-25, 2011

**Chairs**

General chairs:

* Martina Zitterbart, KIT, Germany
* Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Program chairs:

* Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs,
Austria
* Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keynote Speakers:

* Hermann Haken, professor emeritus, University of Stuttgart and
founder of synergetics
* Hod Lipson, associate professor at the Cornell Computational
Synthesis Lab

**Papers**

IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research
results or research ideas, and that have not been previously published
or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any
previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be
explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF
format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the international program committee and judged on originality,
significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

The Springer "LNCS Proceedings" style should be used for submission.
Templates are for LaTeX and Word available at http://tiny.cc/qiohy.
Click http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu for detailed information for authors.

* Full Papers. Full papers should describe original research results.
Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS
style (including figures, references, and a short abstract).

* Challenge Papers. Submissions should be position papers, challenging
papers, and papers presenting first results. The papers must be up to 6
pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and
must include a short abstract.

Both paper types should be submitted via the EDAS system at:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9217

When submitting your paper, please consider to allow your paper to be
reviewed by a Shadow TPC. A Shadow TPC will allow young researchers and
PhD students to learn how to work in a normal TPC, but it has absolutely
no influence on the actual TPC's review process and paper selection.
Besides helping to educate young researchers, you will get additional
review comments regarding your work. For more information, please refer
to http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu.

**Proceedings**

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of
each accepted paper must attend IWSOS to present the paper.

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CFP: International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies (MCPT-2011)

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MCPT-2011 - The First International Workshop on
Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies
February 6-11, 2011, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, co-located with Eurocast 2011
http://www.fh-hagenberg.at/mcpt2011
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Mobile platforms and technologies surround us throughout our everyday lives;
billions of mobile phones and trillions of embedded mobile systems interact
with each other and their users. The resulting scientific challenges are
inherently interdisciplinary and encompass a multitude of specific fields,
including systems design, sensors and perception, interaction techniques,
networking and protocols, security and privacy, and low-level hardware
design.

MCPT-2011, the First International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms
and Technologies, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from
industry to present novel ideas and developments in mobile computing and
discuss their application to current and future platforms. With a focus on
scientific novelty, MCPT-2011 provides a forum to discuss technology and
platform issues with a specific focus on mobile aspects.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
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* Frameworks, toolkits, and middleware for mobile systems
* Platforms for end user development
* Personalization of mobile devices
* Context and location awareness
* Computational perception and environmental sensing
* Augmented reality and mobile multi-modal interaction
* Mobile and spatial interaction techniques
* Ad-hoc and spontaneous networking
* Mobile group interaction
* Security and privacy issues specific to mobile computing
* Mobile trust and reputation systems
* Mobility in wearable computing
* Mobile hardware and communication technology
* Techniques for power management on mobile systems
* Evaluation and comparative reviews of mobile platforms

The submission process is split into two phases:
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* Pre-workshop submissions are limited to two pages in Springer LNCS format
and should describe the core issues and results in the form of an extended
abstract. These submissions are reviewed by an international program
committee in terms of scientific novelty, technical soundness, and scope.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings
with an ISBN number.

* Post-workshop submissions are limited to eight pages in Springer LNCS
format. Based on the extended abstracts and the workshop presentations,
selected authors will be invited to submit full versions for final
publication in Springer LNCS post-conference proceedings. All selected
papers will be shepherded by program committee members.

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Clemens Holzmann, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Rene Mayrhofer, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Program Committee
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Petteri Alahuhta, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Kilian Förster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Paul Holleis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Matthias Kranz, University of Technology Munich, Germany
Kristof van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Ersin Uzun, University of California Irvine, USA
Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Important Dates
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Extended abstracts submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2010
Workshop: February 6-11, 2011
Final paper submission deadline: April 30, 2011

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CfP: Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 10), NordiCHI 2010

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Second Call for Papers for the International Workshop on
Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 2010)
In Conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
October 17, 2010
http://omue10.offis.de/
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Workshop Theme and Goals
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Nowadays the number of sold smart phones as well as the number of
features of those devices is steadily increasing. Mobile applications
are one of the major driving factors, as they can easily be distributed
through dedicated mobile application distribution platforms, e.g.
Apple's App Store, Google's Android Market. Additionally many smart
phones have a lot of sensors integrated, which makes them more and more
aware of the situation a user is in.

At the same time the usage of mobile devices is rapidly becoming an
integrated part of everyday life. This means that in order to understand
the user experience and the usability of a product it is in general not
enough to perform studies in the laboratory. Instead the mobile context
needs to be taken into account explicitly, and one needs to be able to
study users and usage "in the wild". The challenge of understanding a
mobile user experience is a rapidly evolving field, and it is the
purpose of this workshop to bring together people from industry and
academia in order to exchange methods and experiences related to
understanding the mobile user and the mobile usage.

In this workshop we want to discuss the most important factors,
parameters, and research questions about how to study and involve users
in a truly mobile setting. The goal of the workshop is to provide an
overview of available methods and techniques, but also to produce a set
of guidelines for studying and interacting with users in a mobile
setting. The workshop will focus on the process and methodologies and
will not go into deeper technical details (e.g. algorithms for activity
recognition).

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Observing and interacting with a user on the move
* Unsupervised data gathering
* The mobile device as a platform for user studies
* Specific situations and key parameters
* Mixed methods in a mobile setting
* Ethical considerations
* Safety and security of study participants

Submission details
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Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a position paper
or an industrial case study to the workshop organizers. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop by
giving a 10-15 minutes presentation.

Submissions of papers covering the topics of the workshop should be
submitted by 27th of August 2010. Position papers (2 to 4 pages) and
industrial case studies (1 to 2 pages) should be submitted in NordiCHI
ACM format.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out 10th of September 2010. At
least one author from each accepted submission is expected to attend the
workshop. Accepted submission will be compiled in the workshop
proceedings which will also contain the guidelines resulting from the
workshop activity. The proceedings will be made available at the
workshop website.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Benjamin Poppinga
(poppinga@offis.de).

Schedule
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August 27, 2010 - Submission Deadline
September 10, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
October 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Deadline
October 17, 2010 - Workshop Date

Organising Committee
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Benjamin Poppinga, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University
Wilko Heuten, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
David McGookin, University of Glasgow
Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg
Ginger B. Claassen, C-Lab, Siemens AG
Martin Pielot, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Hakan Eftring, Lund University
Jörn Peters, Soest District

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project:
http://www.haptimap.org/ - FP7-ICT-224675

Best Regards,
Benjamin Poppinga
(on behalf of the Workshop Organizers)

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Benjamin Poppinga
Human Machine Interaction

OFFIS
FuE Bereich Gesundheit | R&D Division Health
Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - GERMANY
E-Mail: benjamin.poppinga@offis.de
URL: http://www.offis.de/

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Fwd: cfp: CSCW 2011 - The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

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Call for Participation: CSCW 2011

The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

March 19–23, 2011 · Hangzhou, China

Website: cscw2011.org
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FIRST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 6th, 2010 (for Papers, Notes, Workshops, and Tutorials)

PCS is now open for papers and notes submissions: http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi

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We invite you to submit your research to the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011) to be held on the edge of scenic West Lake in Hangzhou, China from March 19–23, 2011.

CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference that has a special focus on how technology intersects with social practices. This year's theme of Building Bridges reflects the history of building bridges between social and technical researchers at the conference while also highlighting the opportunity to build bridges among research communities around the world by hosting it in Asia.

The conference has several venues for participation. Visit our web site for more details: http://cscw2011.org/

Appropriate topic areas for CSCW include:

* Innovative systems to support collaborative activity: group formation, awareness, coordination, telepresence, shared interaction, etc.
* New collective or collaborative user experiences enabled by social media, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, social networking, wikis, etc.
* Emerging issues for global, cross-cultural coordination and communication
* Innovative installations: CSCW and the arts, media, museums, other public spaces
* Studies of the introduction and use of technologies from social, cultural, and organizational perspectives
* Applying social science methods (ethnographic, experimental, empirical, etc.) to study and understand collaborative experiences and practices
* Novel methodologies and tools for the design and analysis of collaborative practices
* New theoretical approaches and frameworks for understanding coordination and communication
* Collaborative experiences enabled by mobile devices, location-based services, advanced sensing systems, and other emerging technologies
* Multi-player gaming and Virtual Environments
* Systems for emergency preparedness and large-scale rapid deployment (e.g. disaster response)
* Collaborative domains: Computer Supported Cooperative Healthcare, Human Robotic Collaboration, Education, Collaboratories, Government
* Studies exploring the appropriate balance between individual and collaborative work.
* Visions of future directions for CSCW

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Get the latest CSCW 2011 updates!
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Follow us twitter.com/cscw2011

Become a fan at facebook.com/cscw2011
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CfP: Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility

Call for Participation and Presentations

Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility

A workshop in conjunction with Making Links 2010
Monday, 15 Nov 2010, Perth, Western Australia

http://www.makinglinks.org.au/news/research-for-action/

Workshop Theme
This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how academic researchers and community practitioners and activists can work together to explore the use of information and communication technologies, social media, augmented reality, and other forms of network technologies for research and action in pursuit of social responsibility. The aim is to connect people with ideas, ideas with research projects, and harness new media to further inquiry into socially just outcomes in our community.

Participation
There are two ways in which you can participate in this workshop. You can either come along as a general participant, including having the chance to present a short position statement on your current research needs, projects or ideas (whether as a researcher or active practitioner), or you can present a paper (full length papers to be selected on the basis of peer review). Workshop costs AU$ 85 if you also register for Making Links 2010, or AU$ 145 if you only attend the workshop. Morning/afternoon tea breaks and lunch included.

A. General participation stream
Position Statements: We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop and the disciplinary background of the participant.

30 July 2010 Submission of short position statements by email to the workshop chairs
30 Sep 2010 Notification of acceptance (early-bird rate closes 1 Oct 2010)

B. Peer reviewed publication stream
Full papers for peer review and publication in a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (to be confirmed): http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

06 Sep 2010 Submission of full papers for peer review by email to the workshop chairs
30 Sep 2010 Notification of acceptance (early-bird rate closes 1 Oct 2010)
01 Nov 2010 Revised, camera ready papers due

Workshop Keynote Speaker
Douglas Schuler has been focusing on the intersection of society and technology for over 25 years. He has written and co-edited several books, including Participatory Design: Principles and Practices (Erlbaum, 1994),New Community Networks: Wired for Change (Addison-Wesley, 1996;http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/), and most recently, Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (MIT Press, 2008), a multi-year undertaking (still in-work) with 85 contributors. He is president of the Public Sphere Project (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/) and former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. For CPSR, Doug organized the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing symposia series which was first convened in 1987. He is also a co-founder of the Seattle Community Network, a free, public access computer network supporting community and civic engagement that first went online in 1994. He is a member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, a non-traditional liberal arts college, where he teaches programs that focus on the idea of civic intelligence. Doug has a masters degree in computer science (University of Washington) and a masters in software engineering (Seattle University). He is working on his PhD.

Workshop Chairs
Associate Professor Matthew Allen (@netcrit), Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology
m.allen AT curtin.edu.au

Associate Professor Marcus Foth (@sunday9pm), Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
m.foth AT qut.edu.au

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Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
Principal Research Fellow

Urban Informatics Research Lab
Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Fwd: CFP: Workshop on Connecting Families at ACM Group 2010

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Connecting Families: New Technologies, Family Communication, and the
Impact on Domestic Space

Workshop at ACM GROUP 2010
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Workshop Page: http://carmster.com/connecting

Deadline: September 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS
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Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University
Tejinder Judge, Virginia Tech
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech
Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Xiang Cao, Microsoft Research Cambridge

ADVISORY PANEL
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David Kirk, University of Nottingham
Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Nokia Research

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been a longstanding focus of
study in the fields of HCI and CSCW dating back to the first
incarnations of the media space in the early 1980s. Since then, this
research sphere has explored many different forms of technology. The
early focus of this work was largely workplace-oriented where
researchers focused on improving and understanding workplace
communication practices. However, over the last decade, there has
been an increasing focus on studying computer-mediated communication
in the home.

Computing technologies are rapidly changing the way families can
communicate, coordinate, and connect with others through
readily-available (and often free) applications, such as Google Talk,
Skype, or iChat. The accessibility and proliferation of these
applications means that family members are increasingly faced with new
mechanisms to reach out and connect with their family and friends.
For this reason, technology is now rapidly reconfiguring the way we
think about and design for domestic spaces. As it does so,
researchers now must directly confront issues of family relations and
the subtle negotiations that are part of that realm. "Connection" can
be emotionally expressive or merely informational. Analytic frameworks
as well as technologies developed to support work may not be
appropriate for understanding this setting.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers,
designers, and practitioners who study family practices or domestic
technology design with a particular emphasis on mediating family
communication within the home and also between homes. Our focus is on
technologies that allow family members to directly connect with one
another either synchronously (e.g., video conferencing) or
asynchronously (e.g., instant messaging), as opposed to technologies
where one broadcasts or shares information with many (e.g., social
networking sites). Here research typically aims to support
communication between parents, children, grandparents, and close
friends. We want to build community around this topical area, explore
the themes of this research over the last decade, and discuss the
relevant research themes of the next decade. We also plan to use the
workshop as a starting point for pursuing options of
creating a book about the workshop theme.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- family coordination
- family communication
- video communication
- communication across time zones
- social relations in families
- analytic frameworks for ICT in the domestic realm
- domestic awareness appliances
- methods for studying domestic settings

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
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Potential workshop participants should submit 2-4 page position papers
(SIGCHI format) that describe their area of research as it relates to
domestic computer-mediated communication along with the future
direction they see research in this space taking. We also ask that
authors include short biographies for each of the position paper's
authors. We expect that only one author for each paper will
participate in the workshop, though we may be able to accommodate a
small number of special requests.

Email submissions to carman_neustaedter@sfu.ca

Submission deadline: September 10, 2010
Notification of decision: October 7, 2010

This workshop is being held as part of the ACM Group 2010 Conference:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group10/

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