The 1st International Workshop on 

Web-based Collaboratories (Wbc-2003) - from centres without walls to virtual communities of practice

8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal

Call for Papers

held in connection with IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003 (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003)  

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The workshop intends to explore research, design and evaluation of web-based collaboratories. Recent developments of collaboratories broaden the original vision of a distributed science laboratory towards the emerging notion of collaboratories in use. Collaboratories in use intend to foster interactive knowledge production and integration amongst participants with initially diverse disciplinary or cultural backgrounds who have a domain or a task in common. Examples include collaboratories in rural tele-medicine, cross-national film research and design collaboratories. The evolving practices of creation and integration of knowledge in such collaboratories open up to new design and evaluation methods and development of new theory. So far, each collaboratory has been built as an independent effort. For future development of methods for design and evaluation of collaboratories, there is a need to exchange experience and lessons learnt from designers, researchers and users on developments of collaboratories in use.

Objectives

To direct cross-disciplinary attention to recent research and development of web-based collaboratories. To inspire design and evaluation of collaboratories in use.

Target audience

The workshop is intended for academics and practitioners with experience and interest in design, use and evaluation of web-based collaboratories. All participants are encouraged to submit a full paper or a short paper for presentation and discussion at the workshop. The presented workshop papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Digital Information Management (http://www.dirf.org/jdim/).

Themes

The workshop invites papers and presentations that address any of the following perspectives on web-based collaboratories:

* Methods for design and evaluation of collaboratories and their advantages and disadvantages. How to design and evaluate a collaboratory in use and how to identify and develop appropriate methods and scenarios.

* Analysis of distributed collaborative work. How 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.

* New conceptual tools. Analysis, design and evaluation of shared ontologies, classification schemes and taxonomies. Empirical analysis of collaborative classification, indexing and annotation. Display of conceptual tools in the interface of web-based collaboratories.

* New technologies. Integration of shared artifacts and resources like instruments and data, annotation toolkit, web logs, video-conferencing.  Experiments with new toolkit for creating and maintaining technical infrastructures in collaboratories.

Duration and venue

8:45 - 9:00 Coffee and registration

9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks

9:15 - 10:30 The social informatics of web-based collaboratories

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 New conceptual tools in collaboratories

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:45 New technologies in collaboratories

14:45- 15:00 Break

15:00-16:15 Methods for design and evaluation of web-based collaboratories

16.15-17.00 Concluding remarks

Submission of proposed papers

Full papers include mainly accomplished results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5.000 words)

Short papers are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh development and have 4 pages at the maximum (2.500 words)

Papers should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in Word or RTF by 1 September, 2003. The papers should be sent to hanne.albrechtsen@risoe.dk

Evaluation

An international program committee* will review the proposed papers, and authors will be notified by 1 October, 2003.

Timeline

Submission Deadline - 1 September

Notification to Authors - 1 October

Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 15 October 2003

Late Registration - After 15 October 2003

Workshop organizer

Hanne Albrechtsen

Senior Scientist

Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre

Department of Systems Analysis

Risoe National Laboratory

Roskilde, Denmark

E-mail: hanne.albrechtsen@risoe.dk

Please note that workshop participants need to register for the IADIS WWW/Internet Conference. For registration details, see http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003/

*Program committee:

Laura Bezerra, Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt, Germany

Cornelia Boldyreff, Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK

Geoffrey Bowker, Department of Communication, University of San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Bryan Cleal, Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark

Elizabeth Davenport, Social Computing Group, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Jonathan Grudin, Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA

Preben Hansen, SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

Morten Hertzum, Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Denmark

Lynn Howarth, School of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

Elin Jacob, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA

Jens-Erik Mai, the Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Cognitive Systems Engineering Centre, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark

P. Pichappan, Digital Information Research Foundation and Annamalai University, India

Carla Simone, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione Universita' di Milano Bicocca, Italy

Paul Solomon, School of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC), USA

Adelheit Stein, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany