Hi, CSCW 98, held November 14 - 18 in Seattle, has a great tutorial program. If you've considered enrolling in a tutorial -- please act soon. And encourage your friends and colleagues to act too. The early registration deadline is Friday, October 9. If you register before October 9, each tutorial unit will only cost $220 ($255 for non-ACM members). After October 9, the cost of tutorials goes up 45% (through November 6) -- and is 70% more expensive if you wait to register on site. Please review the full CSCW 98 tutorial program at: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw98/program/tutorials.html And, give special thought to enrolling in the following sessions -- many openings are still available! All tutorials are held on Sunday, November 15 (except Tutorial 1 on Saturday evening). Tutorial 3: Victor Kaptelinin, Umea University, and Bonnie Nardi, AT&T Research, present "Activity theory: Basic concepts and applications" -- activity theory is a fresh approach to describing the strucutre, context, and development of computer-supported collaboration; examples and concepts drawn from Nardi's book (full day, 2 units) Tutorial 5: Karen Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer, of InContext Enterprises, present "Contextual inquiry: Gathering customer data for system development" -- which offers a practical introduction to the use of field research in designing computer systems that support and extend people's work (full day, units) Tutorial 6: Nadia Magenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, and Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, present "Virtual humans in collaborative virtual environments" -- which will explore techniques to integrate virtual humans into collaborative settings, including rules for social interaction and methods for facial animation (full day, 2 units) Tutorial 9: Alan Dix, Staffordshire University, presents "Avoiding damn lies: Understanding statistics" -- which introduces statistical concepts and analyses in a form usable and understandable by CHI and CSCW researchers; excellent as a refresher course (full day, 2 units) Tutorial 11: Andreas Girgensohn, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, and Alison Lee, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, present "Developing collaborative applications on the Web" -- which surveys approaches to building Web-based collaboration tools; includes extensive examples (full day, 2 units) Tutorial 18: Elena Rocco, Daniel B. Horn, and Paul Resnick, University of Michigan, present "The World Wide laboratory: Conducting experiments on the Internet" -- which demonstrates and teaches techniques for conducting controlled experiments via the Internet -- including how to make subject payments using electronic cash, subject recruitment, and systems for playing online social dilemma games (half day, Sunday afternoon, 1 unit) See you in Seattle! Tom Finholt & Mark Ackerman, CSCW 98 Tutorial Chairs _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Finholt Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work School of Information University of Michigan University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street 303B West Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 v:734 647 4948 v:734 647 3581 f:734 936 3168 _______________________________________________________________________________