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           Call for Papers for a CHI workshop on
        Social Navigation: a Design Approach?
               3rd of April, 2000

Submission deadline: 28th of January
http://www.sics.se/SocNav00/

Theme

Social navigation has been proposed as a means to help users cope
with large information spaces. Through making other users’ actions
visible allows us to take advantage of the work they have done to find
their way around and to solve problems. By information space, we
mean anything from the interface to a normal application to large
hypermedia spaces such as the World Wide Web or virtual reality
environments. Users’ actions can be made visible in various ways:
through direct social navigation (talking to or seeing individual users
act), indirect social navigation (seeing the aggregated user behavior
as in recommender system advice), or readwear (seeing how an
object has been used by other users through its texture).

Social navigation seem to be a natural approach to the design of an
information space; yet we still have not seen many practical solutions
that allow users to behave socially, interfaces that allow for the
accumulation of social trails, or the aggregation of user behaviors.
We invite practitioners, designers and evaluators who are trying to
design for social navigation of information spaces to come and
discuss problems, practical solutions, develop ideas and solutions.

When we say useful solutions, we do not necessarily mean that
social navigation must contribute to the efficiency of the interface
from the user point of view. What is gained by social navigation might
not be, and maybe should not be, time and efficiency, but instead it
might contribute to other factors. Maybe a better question to ask is
how do we know that we have created a good navigational experience?
Will it be a matter of more aesthetic or emotional factors, such as
feelings of flow or having a delightful experience, as opposed to the
efficiency measurements usually taken for the prevailing tool-based
usability evaluations?

The workshop will bring together and many varied viewpoints around
these ideas as we can find.

We encourage practitioners in the field to send in a two-page abstract,
using the CHI standard format. The abstract should focus either on
describing a system that implements social navigation, or an evaluation
study of a social navigation tool. Please indicate in an accompanying
letter whether there will be a demo of a running system and any system
requirements.

Deadline for submissions:

28th of January

Notification of acceptance:

4th of February

Workshop organisers:

Kristina Höök, SICS
Alan Wexelblat, MIT Media lab
Alan Munro, Napier University

Program committee

David Benyon, Napier University, Edinburgh, U.K.
Matthew Chalmers, Glasgow University, U.K.
Andreas Dieberger, IBM Almaden, USA
Kristina Höök, SICS
Joe Konstan, Univ. of Minneapolis, USA
Alan Munro, Napier University, Edinburgh, U.K.
Loren Terveen, ATT, USA
Alan Wexelblat, Mainspring, USA


General Workshop and Conference Information

Workshops provide an extended forum for small groups (15-20 people)
to exchange ideas on a specific topic of common interest. CHI 2000
offers workshops covering a wide range of HCI topics. All workshops
will be held on Sunday and Monday, 2-3 April 2000.

Workshop participants are selected on the basis of position papers
submitted directly to the workshop organizer. A position paper is
generally 2-4 pages long and outlines the submitter's views on the
workshop theme and the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the
topic. Position papers must be received by 28 January 2000.
Submitters will be notified of selection by 4 February 2000.
Accepted workshop participants will be charged a registration fee
of US$75/NLG 150 for a one-day workshop and US$150/NLG 300 for a
one-and-a-half or two-day workshop.

For additional information about CHI 2000 Workshops, see
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2000/ap

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