CALL FOR PAPERS
MOBILE COLLABORATION SYSTEMS: Challenges for design, work practice,
infrastructure, and business
Workshop at COOP 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France, 19-21 May
http://www.tinyurl.com/mobileCollaboration
Mobile devices are expected to soon become the “primary computer” and
tool for sharingand connecting with others. In our thriving world of
mobile communication, technologicaladvances have brought a number of
novel and improved ways of collaboration; in business, commerce,
healthcare, education, and society in general. Collaboration can help to
overcome the limitations of a single user, device, and network. However,
creating mobile collaborative applications and systems requires careful
consideration and design.
This workshop aims to bring together designers, practitioners and
researchers who share an interest in the study and design of mobile
collaborative systems.
Description of the themes of the workshop
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to
* Mobile collaboration technologies in industry and business, e.g.
mobile commerce, health care, telecommunication, etc.
* Business models of mobile collaboration, e.g. mobile advertising,
paid mobile content, innovation from emerging markets, etc.
* Collaborative and user-provided networks, WLAN communities
* Architectures and application frameworks of mobile collaboration
systems
* Security, privacy, trust and protection of identity in mobile
collaborative systems
* Design patterns of mobile collaborative systems and collaborative
processes
* Mobile collaboration-based user-provided services
* Visualization of collaborative structures and processes
* Awareness and ubiquity in mobile collaborative systems
* Social applications, e.g. collaborative games
* Location-based mobile collaboration, e.g. pedestrian navigation,
augmented reality applications, etc.
* User interaction and input techniques of mobile collaboration systems
* User tests and evaluation of mobile collaboration systems;
experiences from living labs
* Impact of next generation mobile networks on mobile collaboration
This full day workshop will be structured as follows: welcome and
introduction of organizers, poster ‘madness’ where participants
introduce themselves and briefly advertise their work, coffee break and
poster session with mingling to encourage small group discussions;
afterwards discussion and group work, wrap up.
The main goal of the workshop is to share understandings and experiences
as well as to foster communities of interest. Depending on composition
of the groups and workshop members’ experiences, the conceptualization
of a ‘handbook for the design of mobile collaborative systems’ could be
an additional target of the workshop.
Each of the workshop participants should prepare a poster (alternatively
two slides) of the contribution. Posters are presented shortly, and then
discussed with the other workshop participants. According to our
experience, presentation of posters results in much more interactive and
fruitful discussion than the presentation of slides.
The interaction of this workshop is mainly characterized by group work
carried out in small teams. Metaplan, brainstorming and similar
techniques are used as appropriate. Before beginning group work, each
group sets a set of target goals to be achieved. After the work in
separate groups, all results are presented, discussed and collected
together, with the target to come to final decisions on further steps.
Workshop proceedings will be published online (e.g. public BSCW, IRSI -
International Reports on Socio-Informatics, etc.) The number of
participants for this full day workshop is limited to 12.
Important dates:
29 March, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions
16 April, 2010: Notification about acceptance/rejection of workshop
contributions
18 May, 2010: COOP’10 workshop on Mobile Collaboration Systems
Call for Papers:
http://www.tinyurl.com/mobileCollaboration
Organisers:
Maria Danninger, mm1 Consulting & Management PartG
Wolfgang Gräther, Fraunhofer FIT,
Tobias Heer, Distributed Systems Group at RWTH Aachen University
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