[Asis-l] CSCW 2012 Advance Program available, early registration deadline Dec 15

[N. Sadat Shami]

The Advance Program for The ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported
Cooperative Work has been posted online:
http://cscw2012.org/program.php. The conference will be held February
11-15 in Bellevue, Washington, USA (near Seattle).

CSCW is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use
of technologies that affect groups, organizations, and communities.
CSCW encompasses both the technical and social challenges encountered
when supporting collaboration. The development and application of new
technologies continues to enable new ways of working together and
coordinating activities. Although work is an area of focus, CSCW
embraces research and technologies supporting a wide range of
recreational and social activities using a diverse range of devices.
The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry who are interested in both technical and social
aspects of collaboration.

This year's program includes

    * Plenary speeches by Yochai Benkler, Judith Olson and Marietta Baba
    * 164 Papers and Notes
    * 3 Panels
    * 2 Special Sessions
    * 55 Interactive Posters
    * 9 Demonstrations
    * 7 Videos
    * A conference banquet

Sessions throughout the program will address the following topics:

    * Ethnography in the Very Wild
    * Community and Classification Online
    * Four Life Stages
    * Crowdsourcing
    * Recommending
    * Twitter and Social Transparency
    * Civic and Community Engagement
    * Distributed Teams I
    * Qualitative Studies of Software Development I
    * Social Network Analysis
    * Across the Globe: Cross–cultural Studies
    * Public Communities Online
    * Distributed Teams II
    * Qualitative Studies of Software Development II
    * Collaboration in the Wild
    * Social Media in War and Crisis
    * Family Life
    * Coordination
    * Supporting Software Co–development
    * Incentives
    * Social Media in Crisis and Culture
    * Privacy and the Home
    * Coordination and Artifacts
    * Achieving Harmony through Architecture
    * Tabletop Displays: From Activity to Activity Theory
    * On the Road: Mobile
    * Medical
    * Social Activity in Games
    * Media Production
    * Forums Online
    * Scaling our Everest: Wikipedia Studies I
    * Health
    * Games and Virtual Worlds
    * Supporting Art & Literature
    * Online Disclosure
    * Wikipedia Studies II
    * eScience and eMedicine
    * Virtual Environments
    * Tools for Analysis
    * Mediating Communication

More information about attending the conference, including the early
registration rates available until December 15, can be found here:
http://cscw2012.org/attending.php

We hope you will join us!
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The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
11-15 February 2012
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Homepage: cscw2012.org
Twitter: @ACM_CSCW2012
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSCW2012