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Due to many requests from authors, we decided to extend the deadline for
paper submission. Please, find below the final CFP, which announces that
the paper submission deadline is extended to April 1, 2012.

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CollabTech 2012
The 6th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies

Dates: August 27-29, 2012
Location: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference Website: http://www.collabtech.org

Co-organized by IPSJ SIG-GN, HIS SIG-CE, and VRSJ SIG-CyberSpace
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CollabTech 2012 will be the sixth international conference on
collaboration technologies. Due to marked advances in networking,
computing and interaction technologies, we are at the cusp of
collaboration technologies being a part of an intricate network of
various types of everyday collaborative processes. The conference will
provide a platform for the international collaboration technology community
to showcase, discuss and deliberate on state-of-the art, emerging new
technology
developments and understanding the social use of these technologies to
improve
collaborations.
CollabTech would also like to encourage you to use this opportunity to
present challenging studies, which may be at a very early stage of their
system development, or their exploration of new evaluation methods,
but may trigger exciting technology.

[TOPICS]
Contributions are solicited in all areas of collaboration technology
research and applications. Topics include, but not limited to:
* CSCW system architectures and applications
* Web-based groupware
* Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration
* Collaborative communication systems
* Embodied communication systems
* Shared virtual/augmented environments
* Smart device-based groupware
* Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
* Collaborative entertainment systems
* Computer supported cooperative design (CSCD)
* Social science studies on collaboration

[IMPORTANT DATES]
Submission of the paper for review: April 1, 2012(Extended)
Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2012
Submission of camera-ready manuscripts: June 25, 2012


[PAPER SUBMISSION]
Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for
publication. Only electronic submissions (PDF) will be considered. There
are three paper categories and the maximum page length in each category
is:
Full paper: 6 pages
Short paper: 4 pages
Poster paper: 2 pages

Your paper is judged not only by the regular review criteria but also
from the aspect
of technological coolness. The proceedings will be published with ISBN.
A few excellent papers will be invited for Journal of Information
Processing (JIP).


[ORGANIZATION]
General Co-Chairs:
Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiroaki Ogata, University of Tokushima, Japan

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan
Kin-ya Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Yoshimichi Wananabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Steering Committee:
Ken-ich Okada, Keio University, Japan
Jun Munemori, Wakayama University, Japan
Minoru, Kobayashi, NTT, Japan

International Advisory Board:
Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Saul Greenburg, University of Calgary, CA
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research, USA
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Susan Fussel, Cornell University, USA
Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dongman Lee, KAIST, Korea
Marcelo Milrad, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany
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