Call for Papers
(deadline: November 21st, 2005)
7th International Conference
on the Design of Cooperative Systems
Provence, France - May 9-12, 2006
COOP'06 is the 7th International Conference on the Design of
Cooperative Systems, held at Carry-le-Rouet, Provence, France. The
conference aims to bring together researchers who contribute to the
analysis and design of cooperative systems and their integration in
organizational settings. The challenge of the conference is to advance:
· Understanding and modelling collaborative work mediated by
technical artefacts
· Design methodologies for cooperative work analysis and
cooperative systems design
· New technologies supporting cooperation
· Concepts and socio-technical solutions for the application
of cooperative systems
Previous COOP conferences suggest that cooperative systems design
requires deep understanding of groups’ and organizations’ cooperative
work, involving both artefacts and social practices.
Submissions are solicited from a wide range of disciplines: computer
sciences (CSCW, HCI, Information Systems, Knowledge Engineering
etc.), organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology,
anthropology, ergonomics, linguistics, etc. contributing to the
fields of cooperative systems design
Theoretical contributions, empirical studies reports, software
development experiences, innovative concepts are welcome on such
topics as:
· Analysis of collaborative work situations
· Conceptual frameworks for understanding cooperative work
· Guidelines for designing cooperative systems
· The influence of new technologies (mobile computing,
ubiquitous computing, etc.) on cooperation
· Expertise sharing and learning in cooperative work
· Communities and new forms of organization
· Innovative technological solutions and user interfaces
· Methods for participatory design of cooperative systems
IT-infrastructures are used to support cooperation and collaboration
in a wide range of sectors (e-business, e-government, health care,
open source software development, etc.) is. Although many of these
types of application are not explicitly designed as “cooperative
systems”, COOP 2006 welcomes contributions describing concepts and
experience in these fields.
COOP 06 is particularly keen to encourage contributions relating the
design of cooperative systems to:
Seamless integration of artefacts and conversations - enhanced
concepts of communication infrastructure
The emergence and distribution of cooperative systems has been
accompanied by increased communication workload. This is
characterized by increased information exchange, message overflow,
numerous interruptions of work, cognitive overload, or a dominance of
virtual context. To alleviate and improve the situation, greater
integration of conversational acts (e.g. message exchange) and
documents is clearly required. Technological and organizational
concepts currently available could support a greater degree of
seamless interplay between conversation and documentation than is
currently the case. This seamless integration should also analyse and
improve the relationship between the tangible world of documents
(e.g. paper) and their representations within digital media (covering
chat, newsgroups, annotations, e-mail, blogs, video-recording etc.).
On the other hand, a persistent problem is that different
communication situations, volatile as well as perennial conversation
needs, and the entire range of communication, both formal and
informal are invariably handled with a single, uniform type of media,
such as e-mail. This contrasts with the diverse forms of
communication means commonly associated with real objects existing in
the world of work.
Coop06 especially welcomes contributions which provide analyses and
concepts for design in this area. Special topics might be:
· Interaction and integration of different communication
devices and document standards;
· Role of annotations and of documents in the coordination of
activities;
· Communication management inside organisations and communities;
· Crossing from digital to tangible artefact;
· Specific use of documentation by communities: OSS practices,
healthcare files, e-government, e-business…
· Integration of conversation and documentation in the context
of learning and knowledge management
· The integration of synchronous and asynchronous means of
communication
Submissions may be:
· full papers (10 pages) or short papers (6 pages); deadline:
21st of Nov., 2005
· workshops proposals (including a description of the topic,
the format of the workshop and the organization committee) special
deadline: 9th of Jan., 2006
· doctoral colloquium contributions (special deadline: 9th of
January, 2006).
Papers will be presented in plenary sessions or at a special format
called “interactive paper session”.
Submission details will be provided at the conference web site:
http://tech-web-n2.utt.fr/coop/
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