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CHI 2005 WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Awareness systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges
Monday, April 4 2005
Portland, Oregon
See http://www.awareness-research.org
Organisers
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Wendy E. Mackay, Université Paris-Sud, France
Topic
This workshop aims to bring together researchers investigating the design and use of Awareness Systems; these are systems that help people maintain an awareness of other individuals or groups across distance and over time. We are interested to see novel design concepts, empirical research or technological advances. We are interested to see applications for the home, for leisure, mobile use, work or health.
Relevance
Research in awareness systems has grown quite significantly in the last 10 years with several works on the topic being presented at CHI and the CSCW conferences
Despite significant progress, research on awareness systems appears to consist in a quest for point solutions. The various factors to the success of awareness system seem to reappear at different contexts. Sometimes the key to meeting user needs is timeliness of the communication, spontaneity, at other contexts the "always-on" connection is essential, or at least some form of prolonged communication sessions. Some researchers seem to need high bandwidth communication and rely on the media richness to connect people, while at other cases a simple message 'I am home' or ' I am thinking about you' is proposed as a sufficient communication act for connecting people.
Clearly there is significant scope for innovation as higher bandwidth, higher quality displays and an increasing range of appliances become affordable at a wider range of contexts. Also, novel interaction techniques, e.g., relying on tangibles or robots also become possible. To guide such progress to a direction that can have a positive impact on people's working and social lives, such innovation should be guided by an understanding of the needs of people and could benefit from theories that help describe, explain and predict the role awareness systems can play in people's lives.
Aim
The workshop will bring together researchers working in this area internationally, both in industry and academia who will represent current research efforts in awareness systems. Our aim is to go beyond point solutions and seek some shared understanding of known results and challenges for the future.
This will be a working workshop that will try to produce the following output:
- A charting of the design space for awareness systems, describing the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead.
- An inventory of successes and failures in designs of awareness systems and lessons for the future leading to an account of what is known already as to the reaction of people to awareness systems and their needs.
- A discussion on the theoretical foundations of awareness systems. What user-needs are served, how can media theories support us in understanding and designing the usage of awareness systems.
- What are the technological and design challenges ahead and what are the opportunities that technology will bring for the design and use of awareness systems?
- Issues relating to user acceptance such as privacy and trust.
- Evaluation of awareness systems: cases and methodology are both of interest to this workshop.
Format
- We shall ask you to present your work and debate it with other workshop participants.
- We shall invite you to work in groups and create a shared vision for the challenges ahead and for directing future research efforts.
Submission
Please submit position papers between 2-4 pages, following the SIGCHI publications format. Position papers should describe your work in this area and your perspective regarding the aim of the workshop. Papers should be submitted in .pdf format, by mail to [log in to unmask]
Potential participants are encouraged to seek extra information about the workshop through the workshop website. http://www.awareness-research.org.
Participation Criteria
Submissions will be selected on the basis of the significance of the work presented and with respect to how well they will help us reach the aim of the workshop. We shall try to create a good mix of people from industry and academia, looking at the topic from multiple.
Publication
We shall produce a poster based on the ideas generated in the workshop and a summary of its results for the SIGCHI Bulletin.
There will be a significant post-workshop publication effort. We aim to publish a selection of these papers in a special issue of a journal. We hope to coordinate this effort in such a way that the interaction between participants on the day, will carry over to the authoring process and result in a coherent collection of articles. Further, we anticipate opportunities for synergies or for transferring knowledge across institutional and geographical boundaries.
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