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Call for Submissions
*** Special Issue on Awareness and the World Wide Web ***
International Journal on Human-Computer Studies - Academic Press
Guest editors:
Olivier Liechti & Yasuyuki Sumi, ATR MIC Labs, Kyoto, Japan
Home page: http://www2.mic.atr.co.jp/dept2/awareness/
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INTRODUCTION
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The notion of "awareness" has received a lot of attention from the
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community over the last
decade. The situations in which awareness is critical cover a wide
spectrum, and it is therefore more appropriate to talk about specific
"categories" of awareness. Group, workspace, contextual and peripheral
awareness are some of these categories. In some cases, they are
orthogonal and may be supported by a single system. In other cases,
they relate to fundamentally different problems and are supported by
different classes of tools.
At the same time, interesting relationships can be observed between the
WWW and CSCW. On one hand, Web technologies are increasingly used to
implement and deploy collaborative systems. Indeed, they offer many
advantages, in terms of ubiquitous access and rapid prototyping for
example. On the other hand, research in CSCW drives further evolution of
Web technologies. This is true both because CSCW designers have evolving
requirements, but also because sometimes, apparently unrelated findings
in the CSCW literature can be applied to the WWW. This is particularly
true when the Web is considered as a social space, which provides a
context for interaction and collaboration.
For all these reasons, the notion of awareness is increasingly meaninful
in the particular context of the WWW. Here again, there is no single
definition for awareness, and different categories relate to very
different problems. Here again, there are two ways to look at the
relation between two complementary problem domains.
On one hand, Web technologies can be considered essentially as an
implementation platform for building awareness tools. The emergence of
information appliances (not only mobile devices but also kiosks and
public displays) is making the WWW even more appealing for the designers
of awareness tools.
On the other hand, the WWW can be considered as an activity space, that
people should be made aware of. For instance, information consumers
should be able to "see" and meet each other when they visit related
places on the Web. Also, information publishers should be able
get a better idea of what is happening on their sites, in more natural,
continuous and effortless ways.
The aim of the special issue to cover these various aspects, and to
provide an overview of the whole spectrum. Our goal is also to broaden
the scope from workgroups to also embrace communities. We are interested
to learn about how Web technologies can support geographically-bound
communities, by facilitating encounters, knowledge sharing and
communication. We are also interested to learn about technologies and
systems that support the formation and activities of interest-focused
communities on the WWW.
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AIM & SCOPE
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We invite contributions from CSCW experts who have designed, implemented
and evaluated awareness systems using Web technologies. Examples include
media spaces, group awareness tools and persistent shared workspaces.
We also seek for contributions from WWW and HCI experts, who have
designed systems for making users aware of the activity occurring on the
Web. Systems that we have in mind include: collaborative browsers,
on-line matchmaking tools, monitoring systems, visualization tools and
ambient user interfaces.
Relevant topics include:
* The WWW as an activity space
- Capture and representation of activity on the WWW
- Support for synchronous and asynchronous communication on the Web
- Collaborative browsers
- Chance encounters on the WWW
* The WWW as an implementation platform for awareness tools
- Group awareness systems
- Shared persistent workspaces
- Web-based awareness appliances: mobile devices, kiosks, etc.
- Instant messaging in relation with Web-based systems
* Awareness in mixed reality environments:
making Web activity perceptible in the real world
- Ambient user interfaces
- Visualization
- Auditory user interfaces
* Application domains:
- Communityware
- Domestic applications
- Education
- Knowledge management
- Digital libraries
- Entertainment
Prospective authors should keep in mind that the focus of the journal
is on human-computer interaction. Papers describing Web-based awareness
systems should clearly emphasize this aspect, and should include the
results of a sound evaluation.
Authors are strongly encouraged to visit the home page of the
International Journal on Human-Computer Studies at the following URL:
http://www.academicpress.com/ijhcs
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INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors interested to submit a paper for the special issue are invited
to contact the guest editors as soon as possible, to discuss relevance
and get more information.
Important dates:
As soon as possible: Notification of interest to guest editors
January 8th: Submission of title and abstract
February 15th: Submission of full paper
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NOTE: WORKSHOP ON AWARENESS & THE WWW AT ACM
CSCW'2000
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Prior to this special issue, a workshop on the same theme was held in
conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work (CSCW'2000), in Philadelphia.
The papers presented at the workshop are available on the Web, at the
following URL:
http://www2.mic.atr.co.jp/dept2/awareness/
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Olivier Liechti
ATR MIC Labs, Kyoto, Japan
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Yasuyuki Sumi
ATR MIC Labs, Kyoto, Japan
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Olivier Liechti
ATR MIC Labs, Department 2 phone: ++81 (774) 95 1445
Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan fax: ++81 (774) 95 1408
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