Supporting the Social Side of Large-Scale Software Development
A CSCW 2006 Workshop  (Banff, Alberta, Canada)

IMPORTANT DATES 

September 15,2006   : submissions due
September 29,2006   : notification of acceptance
TBD                 : CSCW early registration deadline
November  4, 2006   : workshop
November 4-10, 2006 : CSCW conference

WORKSHOP WEB SITE:        http://software-research.ca/social-se
CSCW CONFERENCE WEBSITE:  http://www.acm.org/cscw2006

ORGANIZERS 

Li-Te Cheng, IBM Research
Anthony Cox, Dalhousie University
Rob DeLine,  Microsoft Research
Cleidson de Souza, Universidade Federal do Para
Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan
Janice Singer, National Research Council of Canada
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria
Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research

CONTACT PERSON: 
Li-Te Cheng, IBM Research, li-te_cheng at us.ibm.com

Both the software engineering and the CSCW communities recognize that
software development is a collaborative activity, and much recent research
has begun to appear in this domain.  In this full-day workshop, we plan to
explore the social side of software development with an emphasis on tool
support and a focus on large-scale projects such as open source, commercial,
and government projects.  Through a series of brief presentations and
interactive sessions, we seek to increase awareness and knowledge of current
social issues of software development, identify different kinds of tools
that can support collaborative and social activities in software
development, exchange ideas and experiences on how to evaluate collaborative
software development tools, and to build a cross-disciplinary community of
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry.

This full-day workshop seeks participation from a broad community of
researchers and thus we elicit a broad set of topics
in our call for position papers that may lead to improved tools in
collaborative software development for large-scale projects.  Topics
include: 

* Navigational systems for software development, (e.g. recommender systems,
search, and browsers, that may leverage spatial memory)

* New media for capturing knowledge around software development (e.g. novel
uses of annotations, wikis, blogs, virtual worlds, and shared workspace
tools) 

* Communication, collaboration, and awareness tools for large-scale software
development 

* Visualization systems to support social aspects of large-scale software
development 

* Ethnography or other empirical studies of large-scale software
development, such as studies of artifacts left by software development,
geographically-distributed development, ¨agile~ techniques, and induction of
new developers into a team, that propose analytical models for understanding
software development settings, which lead to implications for tool design

* Evaluation techniques for studying the effectiveness and impact of
collaborative software development tools

SUBMISSIONS 

We are targeting a maximum of 25 participants, not including the organizers,
to facilitate community building.

Position papers will be required to address one or more the topics listed
above and/or expound on the theme of the workshop.

Position papers (Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word format) should be no more
than 4 pages using the ACM template (
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html  ).  

Papers can discuss existing or future studies and/or tools.  

Keywords are required for position papers, because we plan to use this to
help plan out a card-sorting exercise at the workshop.

POSITION PAPERS CAN BE SUBMITTED AT:
http://witanweb.ca/social_se2006/main.do

The deadline for submissions is September 15th.  Notification of acceptance
is September 29th.  The workshop itself takes place on November 4th.  

Please note that participants will be expected to prepare a poster.




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