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From: Cornelia Boldyreff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 April 2003 17:47
Subject: ICWI - CfP
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International Workshop on Web-based Collaboratories - from Centres without
Walls to Virtual Community Centres
To be held 8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal
In connection with the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003,
from 5 to 8 November 2003
(http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003)
Call for Papers
Collaboratories have been defined as 'centres without walls', where
scientists can work together while they are in distant locations. The
original vision of collaboratories saw cooperation amongst distributed
scientists as coordination of work and sharing of knowledge, through
shared affordances for collaboration, in the shape of shared tools,
databases and instruments. During the past decade, national and
international research foundations have funded a series of science
collaboratory projects. The results from these projects have shown that
it is feasible to link teams of scientists, data, tools and facilities
through the World Wide Web and thereby reduce the barriers of time and
distance.
Recent research on science collaboratories indicates, however, that design
and adoption of new collaboratories are difficult and uncertain processes.
This difficulty has been ascribed to the lack of broader principles for
collaboratory development. So far, each collaboratory has been built as an
independent effort, with little coordination and exchange of design and
usability experience amongst projects on collaboratories.
Recently, collaboratories have also been defined as 'virtual community
centres' on the web. This concept of collaboratories broadens the previous
metaphor of a distributed science laboratory towards the notion of
collaboratories in use. 'Collaboratories in use' support interactive
knowledge production and integration amongst participants with initially
diverse disciplinary or cultural backgrounds. Examples are collaboratories
in rural telemedicine, cross-national film research and design of
information systems (design collaboratories). Such collaboratories bring
together professionals and laypersons in interactive and often
cross-disciplinary knowledge production and integration. Thereby, research
and design attention is directed to how participants in collaboratories
form social relationships with one another, how they build mutual trust
and how they build common conceptual grounds for their collaboration.
Amongst the challenges facing such collaboratories is that the
requirements for common technological and conceptual tools evolve
throughout the use of the collaboratory itself. This may
mean that technologies and conceptual tools may be developed and
integrated in the collaboratory as add-on facilities, which may result in
substantial maintenance problems. On the other hand, design of
collaboratories in use may build on analysis and evaluation of the
growing collaborative practices, for instance of ongoing social processes
of community building and evolving uses of shared technologies and
conceptual tools. This, in turn, may open up to new methodological
approaches
for design of collaboratories.
The objectives of this workshop is to direct cross-disciplinary attention
to research and development on web-based collaboratories, that is, to
collect and examine empirical evidence of existing research
collaboratories on the web, to share design methods and technological
developments for collaboratories, as well as to address fundamental
research issues. The aim is build up a cross-disciplinary network of
professionals working with research, design and evaluation of web-based
collaboratories.
Papers, short papers and posters/demonstrations from academics,
practitioners and researchers, addressing web-based collaboratories from
any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited:
* Analysis of distributed collaborative work and community-building, e.g.,
how collaborative and individual 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.
* Modelling and design, e.g., experience of particular methodological
frameworks for design and evaluation of collaboratories and their
advantages and disadvantages, how theory of social informatics may inspire
the development of conceptual frameworks for design and evaluation of
collaboratories, and how to evaluate the usability of a collaboratory.
* Conceptual tools, e.g., development of common conceptual grounds through
shared ontologies, classification schemes and taxonomies, the problem of
resolution of conflict and translation of interests amongst participants
using joint
conceptual tools, analysis of iterative and interactive joint construction
of conceptual tools, i.e. collaborative classification, and presentation of
shared
conceptual tools in web-based collaboratories.
* Technologies, e.g. integration and evaluation of shared artifacts and
resources like instruments and data, annotation toolkit, eg. for web logs,
video-conferencing and document indexing, and toolkit for creating and
maintaining
technical infrastructures in collaboratories.
The proposals should reflect the theme of the workshop and each should
indicate into which of the above categories it falls. The workshop will be
composed of the following kinds of contributions:
Full Papers <96> These include mainly accomplished research results and
have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).
Short Papers <96> These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or
fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).
Posters/demonstrations <96> These have one page at the maximum (625 words)
besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the
workshop.
Papers and posters should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in Word or
RTF format to Hanne Albrechtsen, Workshop Chair, by 10 May 2003 (see
contact information below).
An international program committee will review the proposals, and authors
will be notified of decisions by 16 June 2003. The deadline for submission
of papers to the printed workshop proceedings will be 27 June 2003.
Important dates:
Submission Deadline - 10 May 2003
Notification to Authors - 16 June 2003
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 27 June 2003
Late Registration - After 27 June 2003
Contact information:
Hanne Albrechtsen, Workshop Chair
Centre for Cognitive Systems Engineering
Department of Systems Analysis
Risoe National Laboratory
DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark
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