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Workshop Topic 

This workshop aims to investigate the applications and the fundamental technologies required to enable ad hoc communications and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments. Ad hoc communications and collaboration is an area that investigates computing technologies that facilitate spontaneous and informal interactions among individuals. These types of interactions are becoming increasingly frequent as the prevailing concept of personal computing is shifting from desktops to networked mobile devices and ubiquitous computing infrastructures. 

The intention of this workshop it to bring together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines such as CSCW, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, mobile computing, wearable computing, distributed computing, and wireless networking with the goal to discuss the design, implementation, use, and evaluation of computing systems that facilitate ad hoc communications and collaboration.

Workshop History

This workshop is a follow-up of two successful workshops on ad hoc communication and collaboration held at ECSCW 2001 and CHI 2002. The first workshop "Ad Hoc Communications" investigated technologies facilitating informal interactions, while the second workshop on "Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration"  focused on applications for wireless ad hoc networks.

Workshop Chairs

Ramiro Liscano, Mitel Networks, Canada  Gerd Kortuem, University of Oregon, USA

Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Martin Bauer, University of Stuttgart, Germany Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mark Billinghurst, University of Washington, USA Sharad Garg, Intel Research, USA  Hans Werner Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK  Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary, Canada  Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada  Brad Rhodes, Ricoh Innovations, Inc., USA  Zary Segall, University of Oregon, USA  Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada