[Sigcr-l] Cfp: Web-based Collaboratories

[Albrechtsen, Hanne]

*Apologies for multiple postings*

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Web-based Collaboratories - from Centres without Walls to Virtual Community Centres
To be held 8 November 2003
http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003/WbC2003.asp

In connection with the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, from 5 - 8 November 2003

The workshop intends to explore research, design and evaluation of web-based collaboratories. Recent developments of collaboratories broaden the original vision of a distributed science laboratory towards the emerging notion of collaboratories in use. Collaboratories in use intend to foster interactive knowledge production and integration amongst participants with initially diverse disciplinary or cultural backgrounds who have a domain or a task in common. Examples include collaboratories in rural tele-medicine, cross-national film research and design collaboratories. The evolving practices of creation and integration of knowledge in such collaboratories open up to new design and evaluation methods and development of new theory. So far, each collaboratory has been built as an independent effort. For future development of methods for design and evaluation of collaboratories, there is a need to exchange experience and lessons learnt from designers, researchers and users on developments of collaboratories in use. 

Objectives

To direct cross-disciplinary attention to recent research and development of web-based collaboratories. To inspire design and evaluation of collaboratories in use. 

Target audience

The workshop is intended for academics and practitioners with experience and interest in design, use and evaluation of web-based collaboratories. All participants are encouraged to submit a full paper or a short paper for presentation and discussion at the workshop. The presented workshop papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Digital Information Management (http://www.dirf.org/jdim/). 

Themes

The workshop invites papers and presentations that address any of the following perspectives on web-based collaboratories:

* Methods for design and evaluation of collaboratories and their advantages and disadvantages. How to design and evaluate a collaboratory in use and how to identify and develop appropriate methods and scenarios.

* Analysis of distributed collaborative work. How work practices evolve in a collaboratory, how common workspaces for cross-cultural or cross-disciplinary collaboration develop, and how the participants negotiate and build mutual trust.


* New conceptual tools. Analysis, design and evaluation of shared ontologies, classification schemes and taxonomies. Empirical analysis of collaborative classification, indexing and annotation. Display of conceptual tools in the interface of web-based collaboratories.

* New technologies. Integration of shared artifacts and resources like instruments and data, annotation toolkit, web logs, video-conferencing.  Experiments with new toolkit for creating and maintaining technical infrastructures in collaboratories.

Duration and venue

8:45 - 9:00 Coffee and registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks
9:15 - 10:30 The social informatics of web-based collaboratories
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 New conceptual tools in collaboratories
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:45 New technologies in collaboratories 
14:45- 15:00 Break
15:00-16:15 Methods for design and evaluation of web-based collaboratories 
16.15-17.00 Concluding remarks

Submission of proposed papers

Full papers include mainly accomplished results and have 9 pages at the maximum (5.000 words)

Short papers are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh development and have 4 pages at the maximum (2.500 words)

Papers should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in Word or RTF by 1 September, 2003. The papers should be sent to hanne.albrechtsen at risoe.dk

Evaluation

An international program committee* will review the proposed papers, and authors will be notified by 1 October, 2003. 

Timeline

Submission Deadline - 1 September
Notification to Authors - 1 October
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 15 October 2003
Late Registration - After 15 October 2003

Workshop organizer

Hanne Albrechtsen
Senior Scientist
Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre
Department of Systems Analysis
Risoe National Laboratory
Roskilde, Denmark
E-mail: hanne.albrechtsen at risoe.dk

Please note that workshop participants need to register for the IADIS WWW/Internet Conference. For registration details, see http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003/

*Program committee:

Laura Bezerra, Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt, Germany 
Cornelia Boldyreff, Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK 
Geoffrey Bowker, Department of Communication, University of San Diego, La Jolla, USA 
Bryan Cleal, Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark 
Elizabeth Davenport, Social Computing Group, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK 
Jonathan Grudin, Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA 
Preben Hansen, SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden 
Morten Hertzum, Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Denmark 
Lynn Howarth, School of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada 
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal 
Elin Jacob, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA 
Jens-Erik Mai, the Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA 
Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark 
P. Pichappan, Digital Information Research Foundation and Annamalai University, India
Carla Simone, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione Universita' di Milano Bicocca, Italy 
Paul Solomon, School of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC), USA 
Adelheit Stein, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany 
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany