[AISWorld] CFP ACM GROUP 2016 (Deadline: February 12, 2016)

[Lionel Robert]

*Call for Submissions*

*GROUP 2016*

*ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work*

November 13-16, 2016, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group16/

*Program co-chairs:*

Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France

Michael Muller, IBM Research, USA

*Conference co-chairs:*

Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Aleksandra Sarcevic, Drexel University, USA

*General Information*

For over 25 years, the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group
Work is a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social
science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse
topics of interest and concern. Group 2016 continues the tradition of being
truly international in both organizational structure as well as
participants.

Key goals for the program are to encourage and facilitate researchers
within CSCW and HCI to interact across disciplinary boundaries. We
encourage high-level research contributions from interdisciplinary groups
to present work which might be difficult to place within one simple
category. We are open for a plurality of research methods, and are looking
forward to the latest findings within broad areas such as systems, society,
participation, critique, collaboration, and human interaction in different
types of collaborative practices. GROUP 2016 in particular would like to
encourage practitioners, industrial partners, academics, and other
interested people to participate. Participation can take different forms;
for the first time in 2016, authors of newly published papers from the
Journal of CSCW (http://link.springer.com/journal/10606) will have the
occasion to present their papers at the conference.

*Submissions to the conference are welcome in the form of:*

● Research Papers (both short and long). This venue gives the occasion to
present and interact with the audience. Accepted papers will be published
in the Conference Proceedings and ACM Digital Library. Please use the ACM
standard format for submissions. We invite archival submissions in the form
of either full Papers or shorter contributions (Notes). A Note is a brief
report of a more limited, but definitive, outcome or theoretical
development. There is no page limit for Papers or Notes, although clear
rationale should be given for Papers that exceed 10 pages or for Notes that
exceed 4 pages.

● Work-in-Progress Papers (WP). Carried-over from 2014, WPs are
contributions in which the authors are working towards an archival journal
submission and would like to discuss their work with their colleagues at
GROUP. Our goal is to broaden the conversations at GROUP, with a format
that may appeal to colleagues whose primary publications are in journals,
rather than conference papers. WPs will not be published in the conference
proceedings, but will be distributed in a paper based conference supplement
at the GROUP conference for the attendees only. Therefore, you are free to
seek formal publication of a draft journal submission that appears in a WP.
The WP review process will be *lightweight*, without any revisions asked to
the authors, to expand the GROUP community and discussions. Please send
submissions directly to co-chairs at workingpapers at group2016.org.

● Future visions (new in 2016). Description will be provided in later.

● Posters and demos. Posters and demos are an opportunity to present
late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a
Paper or Note submission, innovative ideas not yet validated through user
studies, student research in early phases, and other research best
presented in this open format. Posters and demos will be displayed at a
special session in the conference when poster and demo authors will be
available to discuss their work. Poster submissions should include an
extended abstract no longer than 4 pages, including all figures and
references, in ACM Standard Format (available here). In addition,
submissions should also include a separate Tabloid (A3 or 11 x 17 inches)
sized draft of the poster for review purposes. Both the extended abstract
and the poster draft should include author names (these are not anonymous
submissions). Please send submissions directly to co-chairs at
posters at group2016.org.

● Workshops. Workshops provide an informal and focused environment for the
information exchange and discussion of Group related topics. We offer half
or full day workshop venues. Proposals should include an abstract (max 150
words), a title, description of workshop theme, aim, goals, activities and
potential outcomes. It should also specify audio/visual equipment needed,
maximum number of participants, the duration of the workshop (half or full
day) and the names and backgrounds of the organizer(s). Please submit a
maximum of four pages, using the ACM standard format for submissions. We
encourage topics suitable for developing new ideas and deep discussions.
Please send submissions directly to co-chairs at workshops at group2016.org.

● Doctoral Colloquium. The Doctoral Colloquium provides a forum for sharing
ongoing Ph.D. projects of participants with other advanced Ph.D. students
and distinguished faculty for mentoring and feedback. Space is limited, so
an application of up to four pages is required, in the ACM standard format.
Please contact the workshop co-chairs at dc at group2016.org. Accepted
research papers, notes, posters, and doctoral consortium extended abstracts
are published in the ACM Press Conference Proceedings and in the ACM
digital Library. Accepted Workshop proposals will be published in a
paper-based supplement.

*Conference Topics:*

● Theoretical and/or conceptual issues about key concepts relevant to CSCW
and HCI, including critique.

● Social, behavioral, and computational studies of collaboration and
communication.

● Technical architectures supporting collaboration.

● New tool/toolkits for collaborative technologies.

● Ethnographic studies of collaborative practices.

● Coordination and workflow technology.

● Social computing and contexts of collaboration.

● Online communities, including issues of privacy, identity, trust, and
participation.

● Cooperative knowledge management.

● Organizational issues of technology design, use, or adaptation.

● Strategies for use of technology in business, government, and newer forms
of organizations.

● Emerging technologies in work, home, leisure, entertainment, or education.

● Learning at the workplace (CSCL at work, Technology-Enhanced Learning,
TEL).

● Co-located and geographically-distributed teams, global collaboration.

● Cultural and cross-cultural collaboration and communication.

● Mobile and wearable technologies in collaboration.

● Innovative forms of human computer interaction for cooperative
technologies.

*Important Dates*

Papers and Notes Submission Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016

Papers and Notes Decisions Announced: Friday, April 22, 2016

Future Visions Submission Deadline: To be announced soon (late september)

Future Visions Decisions Announced: To be announced soon (late september)

Working Papers (WP) Deadline: Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Working Papers Decisions Announced: Friday, September 9, 2016

Doctoral Colloquium Applications Deadline: Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Doctoral Colloquium Decisions Announced: Friday, June 10, 2016

Workshop Proposals Deadline: Monday May, 16, 2016

Workshop Proposals Decisions Announced: Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Workshop Participants Papers Deadline(s): August 2016, may vary per workshop

Posters/Demos Deadline: Monday, August 1, 2016

Posters/Demos Decisions Announced: Friday, August 19, 2016

Conference dates: November 13-16, 2016


If you have questions, please contact:

Program chairs: Myriam Lewkowicz and Michael Muller papers at group2016.org

General chairs: Stephan Lukosch and Aleksandra Sarcevic chairs at group2016.org
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New Paper: “When Does Crowd Size Matter? The Influence of Diversity and
Experience on the Effects of Crowd Size, accepted”
<http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113094>

Lionel P. Robert Jr.
Assistant Professor of Information
School of Information
University of Michigan
4381 North Quad
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
Phone: 734-764-5296
Fax: 734-615-3587
Email: lprobert at umich.edu
https://www.si.umich.edu/people/lionel-robert



-- 

New Paper: “When Does Crowd Size Matter? The Influence of Diversity and
Experience on the Effects of Crowd Size, accepted”
<http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113094>

Lionel P. Robert Jr.
Assistant Professor of Information
School of Information
University of Michigan
4381 North Quad
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
Phone: 734-764-5296
Fax: 734-615-3587
Email: lprobert at umich.edu
School Website: https://www.si.umich.edu/people/lionel-robert
Personal Website:https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/lionelrobert/