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Title: Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities: A Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop
Date: 6-7 December 2007
Location: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Contact: Barbara Kelly b.kelly@unimelb.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Workshop Submissions Now Closed

Introduction

HCSNet (www.hcsnet.edu.au) and HxI (www.hxi.org.au) are organising a joint workshop on Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities. This workshop will bring together researchers interested in a range of current issues at the intersection of collaboration in online communities and design & development of tools to facilitate this. The aim is to identify shared interests, understand different perspectives around online human-human collaboration and communicative tools, and to take first steps towards developing future collaborations. HCSNet will fund travel for a number of Australian participants from outside the Sydney area.

Registration

Registration for this workshop is now open. Please click here to register online. Please note that registration for this workshop is being handled under the umbrella of SummerFest '07 and you will need to become a HCSNet member to register (membership is free just follow the online prompts).

Audience

The goal of the workshop is to gather people from a wide range of areas of research, development and industry. We invite and encourage participants from HCI, CSCW, Language Technology, Psychology, Communication Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Sociology, Education, and other fields of interest to researchers in distributed collaborative community development.

An example of the range of themes of interest is:

• Behaviours of online users;
• Experiences of face-to-face vs. virtual users;
• Design and development issues in face-to-face vs. virtual use;
• Modelling online communication;
• Tool development for specific tasks;
• Studying online communities with ICT enabled research methods;
• Managing virtual communities;
• Communication for collaboration;
• Non-verbal vs verbal communicative cues.

Invited Speakers

We are thrilled to announce Tom Ericksonn of IBM's Social Computing Lab as one of the invited speakers!!

Participation and Format

We welcome participation from a range of interests and perspectives within the topic of understanding different perspectives around human-human online collaboration and communicative tools, from both academia and industry, and we would like to involve as many as possible in discussion.
Please submit a short abstract of 100-200 words to Kym Buckley ky.buckley@uws.edu.au, by the date indicated below.

The format of the workshop will promote interaction and collaboration. In particular, there will be working sessions in collaboration with targeted industry and community end-user groups on problems of specific interest to them.

Funding

HCSNet-HxI are able to provide support for a number of participants traveling from outside Sydney. SUBMISSION OF AN ABSTRACT DESCRIBED ABOVE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR BEING CONSIDERED FOR TRAVEL FUNDING. If not all participants can be covered, travel funding may be allocated based on specified interests, as described in the submitted abstract.

Important Dates

• Friday 9 August: Call for papers and participation
• Monday 8 October: Deadline for receipt of submissions
• Monday 17 September: Registration Opens
• Monday 15 October: Notification of submission acceptance
• Friday 26 October: Final version of abstracts due

Organisers

Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne), b.kelly@unimelb.edu.au
Robert McArthur (CSIRO), Robert.McArthur@csiro.au
Peter Eades (HxI Initiative), peter.eades@hxi.org.au
Belinda Kellar (HxI Initiative), belinda.kellar@hxi.org.au
Kym Buckley (University of Western Sydney), ky.buckley@uws.edu.au