Originally from: Gloria Mark <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for participation: Virtually Collocated Teams
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Call for Participation:
Virtually Collocated Teams in the Workplace
Gloria Mark Steven Poltrock Jonathan Grudin
Univ. California, Irvine The Boeing Company Microsoft Research
CHI 2000, April 3, 2000, The Hague, Netherlands
Workshop #10:
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi2000/advance-program/CHI-workshops.pdf)
IMPORTANT DATES
We are still accepting submissions
4 February 2000 Notification to authors
3 April 2000 Workshop at CHI2000
OVERVIEW
Distributed teams and the technology to 'virtually collocate' team members
are becoming more widespread. This one-day workshop will bring together
researchers, designers, developers, and early adopters of these
technologies to study how technology can achieve the benefits of physical
collocation, for virtually collocated groups.
The problem for virtually collocated teams is that they are expected to
perform as physically collocated teams: to provide deliverables, meet
project schedules, and to generate feasible and even innovative problem
solutions-all from a distance. Team members often span different
departments, organizations, countries, and even companies, often rarely or
never meeting face-to-face. How can team members successfully adopt the
technology when peer pressures are from a distance, and management and
technical support may be weak at local sites?
It is widely believed that a well-functioning group (whether physically or
virtually collocated) needs to forge common goals, working procedures, and
rules of interaction. The key word in our workshop is teams; we focus on
how team social processes are affected by distance, and how they impact
work. We intend to clarify research issues concerning experiences and
recommendations, team processes, measuring impact, and the value of
face-to-face meeting.
Participants will be selected based on a 3-5 page position paper submission
describing lessons-learned and recommendations for virtually collocated
teams. We are looking for a diverse group of participants with experiences
of technology usage by intra- and inter-organizational, interdisciplinary,
and cross-cultural groups.
SUBMISSIONS
Send submissions electronically to:
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For more information on the workshop (Workshop #10), see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi2000/advance-program/CHI-workshops.pdf
For more information on CHI2000, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi2000/
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