<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">CABS 2014: Full paper deadline extension until Thursday 13 March</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Upon multiple request the CABS'14 full paper deadline will be extended to Thursday 13 March. </span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries (CABS): </span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Culture, Distance and Technology </span><a href="http://cabs.acm.org/">http://cabs.acm.org/</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7">August 20-22, 2014</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">,</span></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Kyoto, Japan</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Collaboration across Boundaries: Culture, Distance, & Technology 2014 (CABS</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">2014) is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">exploring the nature and ways to facilitate intercultural collaboration,</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">including improvements enabled by technology. CABS 2014 is the 5th</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">international conference in the series formerly held as International</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC).</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">CABS aims to be a multidisciplinary forum that integrates the socio-cultural</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">and technical perspectives, with the objective of exchanging the latest</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">results of studying and supporting intercultural collaboration.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">----------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">----------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8">March 13, 2014</a>: Submission Deadline for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9">April 30, 2014</a>: Notification of Acceptance for Full Papers, Panels, and</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Workshops.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10">May 21, 2014</a>: Submission Deadline for Late-Breaking Papers.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11">June 4, 2014</a>: Notification of Acceptance for Late-Breaking Papers.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12">June 25, 2014</a>: Final camera-ready papers due (Full Papers, Late-Breaking</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Papers, Panels, Workshops).</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">----------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Full Papers</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Full papers must present original work with contributions to research and</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">practice of intercultural collaboration. All full papers will be evaluated</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">using a double-blind review process. Accepted authors have the option of</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">having their paper included or NOT to be included in the ACM digital library</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">(<a href="http://portal.acm.org/">http://portal.acm.org/</a>). If the authors choose not to have their full paper</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">included, only the abstract of the paper will be included in the ACM Digital</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Library. Those unpublished papers can be re-submitted and published at other</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">conference proceedings (including ACM conferences) or journals.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Full papers can be up to 10 pages long. Submission for a full paper should</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">be thoroughly anonymized and formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Publications Format using the SIGCHI Papers Template. Papers should be</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">submitted through the Precision Conference System</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">(<a href="http://www.precisionconference.com/~cabs">www.precisionconference.com/~cabs</a>). Please see the SIGCHI author</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">instruction page (<a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform</a>) for more</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">information and the downloadable templates.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">To facilitate the interdisciplinary reviewing process, authors of full</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">papers are asked to categorize their papers by theme (one of three themes)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">to help us direct papers to the most appropriate reviewers. The three themes</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">are: Communication & Management, Computer-Mediated Collaboration, and</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Cross-linguistic Collaboration. Although some papers will fit within</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">multiple themes and others may not be an ideal fit for any of them, we ask</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">the authors to choose the closest theme. We will strive to recruit the most</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">appropriate reviewers for all papers.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Below are examples of types of contributions a paper in any of the three</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">themes can make to CABS:</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- DESCRIPTIONS of intercultural and multilingual experiences: Dynamics of</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">global teams, social networks and communities of practice, globally</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">distributed work in virtual context, language use in multicultural and</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">global teams.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- METHODOLOGIES and frameworks for studying global collaboration:</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Developing instruments for measuring culture including surveys, experimental</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">paradigms, computational frameworks, etc..</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- THEORIES and models for understanding cultures such as modeling culture,</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">intercultural collaboration, and language varieties.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS of intercultural collaboration: Field studies of</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">intercultural collaboration in global organizations and/or in local</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">communities, ethnographic studies on different infrastructure and media use</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">across nations, laboratory studies on the use of technologies, etc..</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- TRANSLATION and transition of language and practice: Use of language on</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">the Internet, translating different norms and shaping new practices in</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">global teams, issues of translating language and practices, effects of</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">e-learning on culture diversity.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- DOMAIN-SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS for collaboration across boundaries:</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Education/learning, global enterprise, information and knowledge</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">management/sharing.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">- INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES for collaboration across boundaries: HCI</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">technologies, robots, conversational agents, language and speech</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">technologies to overcome culture and language barriers.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Late-Breaking Papers (Work in Progress)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking papers to present as</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">posters during the conference. Late-breaking papers will be published in the</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">ACM Digital Library, if the authors wish to do so (see above). Late-breaking</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">papers should be no longer than 4 two-column pages in length, formatted</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">according to the ACM SIGCHI template. Please see the SIGCHI author</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">instruction page (<a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform</a>) for more</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">information and downloadable templates. Late-Breaking Papers should be</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">submitted through the Precision Conference System</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">(<a href="http://www.precisionconference.com/~cabs">www.precisionconference.com/~cabs</a>). Late-breaking papers will not be blind</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">reviewed. Authors should include their complete names and contact</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">information at the top of their submitted PDF file. Submitted late-breaking</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">papers will not be divided into three subcommittees. They will be reviewed</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">by a panel of distinguished researchers in the area of intercultural</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">collaboration.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">General Co-Chairs</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Naomi Yamashita (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Program Co-Chairs</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・Computer Mediated Collaboration: Susan Fussell (Cornell University, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・Cross-linguistic Communication: Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University,</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・Management and Communication: Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (University of</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Program Committee</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・ Computer Supported Collaboration</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Pernille Bjorn (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Hideaki Kuzuoka (University of Tsukuba, Japan)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">John Thomas (IBM, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Hao-Chuan Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・ Cross-linguistic Communication</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Seza Dogruoz (Tilburg University, Netherlands)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Rohit Kumar (BBN Technologies, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Kristine Lund (University of Lyon, France)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">・ Management and Communication</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Wai Fong Boh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Miriam Erez (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Paul Leonardi (Northwestern University, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Michael O'Leary (Georgetown University, USA)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Sundeep Sahay (University of Oslo, Norway)</span></font></div></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; 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