CALL FOR WORKSHOP POSITION PAPERS Media Space - Reflecting on 20 Years A workshop at CSCW 2006 November 4, 2006 Banff, Alberta, Canada Organizer: Steve Harrison [log in to unmask] (Virginia Tech) Workshop Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~srh/MediaSpace.html CSCW 2006 Website: http://www.acm.org/cscw2006/index.html Since the first media spaces were created in the 1980's, technology has changed and affordable real-time desktop conferencing is a reality. But what happened to the ideas of the media space? While there are ubiquitous cell-phone cameras, web-cams, iChat, architectural scale displays, the Internet, and globalized work, how do these current technologies and collaborative experiences look like and look different than those of a media space? What is the current state of systems that employ socially negotiated control instead of enforcing an established policy? What is the meaning of "awareness" and "presence" today? We invite all who worked on the first media spaces and those who are re-discovering these ideas in current research to participate in a one day workshop held in conjunction with CSCW 2006 in Banff. Some topics include: * privacy * large scale display * awareness * telepresence * mobile awareness (IM) * video chat * social triangulation * coordination * distributed work * multi-player games * camera-projector integration research * IRVE's * media and related critical theory * space and place issues * and, of course, media space. To participate, send a two to four page position paper describing ongoing work, recent results, or opinions and approaches to [log in to unmask] We particularly seek significant unanswered questions and challenges to current paradigms that further media space research might address. Papers will be peer-reviewed and 15 will be selected. This workshop is inspired by an invitation to submit a book proposal on this topic to Springer's CSCW book series. Advisory Board: Sara Bly - Sara Bly Consulting Paul Dourish - UC Irvine Robert Kraut - Carnegie-Mellon University Tom Moran - IBM Almaden Research Marilyn Mantei-Tremaine - Rutgers University John Tang - IBM Almaden Research Important Dates: Position Papers due Sept. 8 (note we are requesting position papers one week earlier than shown on CSCW 06 website) Notification Sept. 29 Schedule posted Oct 10 Workshop Nov. 4 Registration: with CSCW registration US$100 without CSCW registration US$150 --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------