CSCW 2002 Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Call For Papers

Workshop on
"Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in
Ubiquitous Computing Environments"
to be held in conjunction with the ACM 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 16-20, 2002

Extended Deadline: September 27, 2002

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Workshop Theme

Leveraging from two successful workshops at ECSCW 2001 and CHI 2001 on Ad hoc Communications and Ad hoc Collaboration, 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 that are linked to each other and the Internet at large by heterogeneous wireless networks. In particular, the combination of mobile devices and wireless ad hoc networks creates opportunities for new forms of mobile collaboration involving interaction between people who are co-located and organized in an unforeseeable ad hoc way. This includes face-to-face collaboration, presence-based collaboration, and ad-hoc mobile teams.

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.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but not limited to:

	Software infrastructures for ad hoc applications
	Support for informal communication
	Spontaneous collaboration
	Mobile and wearable communities
	Service discovery in ad hoc interactions
	Presence-based collaborative applications
	Context-based ad hoc networking
	Security and privacy aspects
	Groupware for mobile ad hoc collaboration
	Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing
	Collaboration in Personal Networks
	Design and evaluation methods
	Ad hoc virtual teams
	User privacy in ad hoc applications

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered. Papers that present work in progress/recent developments/research plans are welcomed.

Submissions and Deadline

Participants will be selected based on a position paper describing interests or ongoing research in the field. The paper should follow the ACM SIGCHI Conference Publications Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chipubform/) The paper must not exceed 10 pages in length. Please submit papers using the PDF format.

Submit your submissions electronically at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/adhocws2002/

Paper submission deadline: September 27, 2002 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: October 11, 2002
Camera-ready version: October 25, 2002

Workshop Chairs

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

Program Committee

	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

For further information, contact

Ramiro Liscano
Strategic Technology
Mitel Networks
350 Legget Drive
Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2K 2W7
tel: (613) 592-2122 x4966
fax: (613) 592-7836
email: Ramiro_Liscano@mitel.com

Gerd Kortuem
Computing Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK
tel: +44 1524 593104
email: kortuem@comp.lancs.ac.uk
www: www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~kortuem

Workshop home page: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/cscw2002ws/
CSCW 2002 home page: http://www.acm.org/cscw2002/