Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration - Workshop at CHI2002

Last updated July 10, 2002

Workshop on "Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration"
CHI2002 Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 22, 2002

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Workshop Topic

This workshop aims to provide a forum for the discussion of human-factors issues related to the design and evaluation of collaborative applications for mobile ad-hoc and personal-area networks. In particular, it tries to advance the understanding of how ad-hoc network applications can facilitate spontaneous collaboration.

The emergence of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) creates opportunities for new forms of mobile collaboration involving interaction between people who are co-located and organized in an unforeseeable way. The acceptance of MANET devices will depend on the applications they facilitate and the social benefits they provide.

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

	Presence-based and face-to-face collaboration
	Support for opportunistic meetings
	Spontaneous collaboration
	Mobile and wearable communities
	Groupware for mobile collaboration
	Security and privacy aspects
	Usability aspects
	Social impacts
	Taxonomies of ad hoc collaboration
	Design and evaluation methods

We seek contributions in the form of case/design studies, evaluations of existing systems or theoretical work. The intention is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines such as CSCW, HCI, Mobile/Wearable Computing, Ubiquitous/Distributed Computing and Wireless Networking, to discuss issues related to the design, development, and evaluation of MANET applications.

Workshop Chairs

	Gerd Kortuem, University of Oregon, USA
	Hans-Werner Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK
	Mark Billinghurst, University of Washington, USA

Program Committee

	Guruduth Banavar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
	John J. Barton, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
	Thomas Falck, Philips Research Labs, Germany
	Sharad Garg, Intel, USA
	Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
	Zary Segall, University of Oregon, USA
	Dan Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
	Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

For further information, contact

Gerd Kortuem
University of Oregon
Department of Computer Science
Eugene, OR 97403
USA

phone: +1 (541) 346-4426
fax: +1 (541) 346-5373
email: kortuem@cs.uoregon.edu

Workshop home page: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/chi2002ws/
CHI2002 home page: http://www.acm.org/chi2002/