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Call for Workshop Participation
CHI 2003
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
April 6, 2003

Workshop: Supporting Intercultural Computer-Mediated Discourse: Methods,
Models, Architectures

We use the term "intercultural" instead of "cultural" to emphasis the
dialogical relationship of at least two participants from different cultures
in computer-mediated communication and cooperation contexts. Supporting
intercultural computer-mediated communication (I-CMC) requires, on the one
hand, the understanding of both enabling and constraining aspects (barriers)
of such a dialogical situations, and calls for, on the other hand, new ideas
for tools, architectures, etc., which may support, promote or enable
computer-mediated intercultural communication and cooperation.

This workshop explores the challenges in the intercultural computer-mediated
communication and cooperation environments and will provide a platform for
discussing empirical insights into the intercultural communication barriers
and practical and theoretical works for new designs, tools and architectures
that aims at overcoming them and enabling computer-mediated intercultural
communication and cooperation.

Participants will be selected based on their position papers. We also aim to
balance the workshop in terms of position on the analysis-design spectrum.

Important Dates
Jan. 17, 2003:  Position papers due
Feb. 7, 2003:   Notification of acceptance
Apr. 6, 2003:   Workshop day


Contact the workshop organizers for position paper submissions:

Fahri Yetim, Information Systems Department, New Jersey Institute of
Technology,
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
+1 973 596 3366 Tel, +1 973 596 5777 Fax
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Elaine Raybourn, Sandia National Laboratories,
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For more information about CHI2003 conference: http://sigchi.org/chi2003/