CALL FOR PAPERS
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Activity – From a Theoretical to a Computational Construct
Full-Day Workshop at the ECSCW'05
Organisers:
Jakob Bardram (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Tom Moran (IBM Research, USA)
Most collaboration support is organized around tools: tools for
communicating (e.g. email); tools for working on materials (e.g.
editors); tools for searching (e.g. Google); etc. But real work,
personal and collaborative activities, cuts across these tools. Some
collaborative computer systems try to organize around activities, such
as team-rooms and workflows. But these are heavyweight and rigid. Most
people do most of their work using lightweight tools, which do not
provide adequate activity management support. A goal of much current
collaboration research is to develop collaboration tools to support
lightweight, situated activities on-the-fly as well as tools to manage
multiple activities.
Activity is a central theoretical construct in HCI and CSCW research –
not only in Activity Theory, but also in Distributed Cognition, Situated
Action, and other theoretical frameworks. These theories and frameworks
provide analytic accounts of real human collaborative activities. The
issue posed by this workshop is whether we can treat activity as a
practical, electronically-represented construct – to have activity as a
“first class” computational object, while still enabling the application
programmer to make lightweight applications for the end-user.
This workshop aims at exploring issues related to improving the
computational support for human activities, with a special focus on the
collaborative aspects. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers
from many different disciplines, styles of work, work domains, and
technologies to explore and discuss the relationship between activity as
a theoretical and a practical, social construct suited as a conceptual
basis for the design of computer systems.
More details and guidelines for workshop participation can be found at
the workshop website:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bardram/ecscw2005/
Important dates
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2005
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Notification of Acceptance: Early July, 2005
ECSCW Early Registration Deadline: July 20th, 2005
Workshop: September 18th or 19th, 2005
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Jakob E. Bardram, PhD
Research Associate Professor Research Manager
Computer Science Department Centre for Pervasive Healthcare
University of Aarhus http://www.cfph.dk
address: Aabogade 34, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
office : http://alex.daimi.au.dk:8080/ereception/browser.jsp?s=bardram
phone : +45 8942 5674 fax : +45 8942 5624
mobile : +45 2338 2074 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www : http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bardram
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