Call for Participation

Papers

Deadlines

  • May 21, 2007: Paper abstracts due
  • May 28, 2007: Submissions due
  • Early July, 2007: Notification of acceptance
  • November 4-7, 2007: Group 2007 Conference

Submissions: https://precisionconference.com/~group/

The ACM Conference on Organizational Computing and Goupware Technologies (GROUP 2007) developed from earlier events focused on office automation systems and collaborative work within those settings. In light of this heritage we seek to create a discourse on collaborative technology bridging between the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Information Systems (IS).

By bringing together researchers and practitioners from both these communities we seek to expand the discourse about collaboration and collaborative technologies in the following ways:

  • Broaden our perspective of collaboration to include work practices, managerial and organizational issues.
  • Expand the examination of groupware to include a continuum from purpose-built applications with simple groupware functionality to more established enterprise systems such as ERP or CAD applications.
  • Encompass diverse methodological perspectives by integrating organizational and work practise-related issues with modelling and implementation issues of collaborative technologies (as construed broadly).

By exchanges among these rather distinct stances, we believe that there are ample opportunities for innovation

Overall Group 2007 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas working on the development, introduction, management, deployment, and analysis of computer-based collaborative systems. We particularly encourage submissions and participation from industry.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Organizational and Social Issues:

  • Experiences with the computing applications that support group or organizational processes
  • Organizational Change due to the appropriation of Information Technologies
  • Understanding and modelling of groups or organizations
  • Strategies and solutions for the integration of emerging Internet businesses
  • New computer-enabled forms of organization
  • Distributed work in outsourcing and off-shoring settings
  • Digital communities: experiences and evaluation
  • Collaboratories and distributed scientific work
  • Organizational re-use of information
  • Appropriation processes and technical support
  • Impacts of wireless, mobile and wearable technologies on cooperative work
  • New forms of Internet behavior, including peer-to-peer, blogs, and social network-based systems
  • New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies
  • Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

Technical and Implementation Issues:

  • Organizational computing systems and infrastructure
  • Innovative groupware solutions and technologies
  • Coordination and workflow technology
  • Collaborative components in standard IT systems, such as ERP or CAD systems
  • Communityware and Social Software
  • Cooperative knowledge management, organizational learning and organizational memory
  • Tailorability and End User Developments
  • Highly flexible architectures, such as service- and component-based systms
  • Innovative forms of human-computer interaction for cooperative technologies

Papers should present original, unpublished research on technological mediation of activities affecting groups, organizations, and social networks. (See Guide to Successful Paper Submissions)

Theory, methodology, systems and concept papers should present new theories, methodologies, empirical results, architectures, prototype systems, or design concepts that stimulate new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting, shared activities. Application and practice papers should describe experiences with systems that support shared activities. All papers should make the case, in the paper itself, for how the work relates to previous research or experience and what aspects of the work are new. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity.

Papers should be no longer than 10 pages, including the abstract, all figures and references, and should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template. Note that this template uses the new ACM proceedings format, which is not the same as the old SIGCHI format. Please be sure to download and use the new template. Papers should include an abstract of no more than 100 words. Papers will be blind reviewed. All authors' names and affiliations should be blanked out on the copy that is submitted for review. Also make sure that any other identifying information is blanked out, such as references that can identify authors.

GROUP 2007 Papers must be submitted online at the GROUP 2007 conference site:

https://precisionconference.com/~group/

You will need to register at the site if you do not already have an account. After logging on, follow the "new submissions" link to make your submission.
Abstracts and titles due May 21, 2007
Paper submissions must be received by May 28, 2007 at 24.00 PST.
Submissions received after this date will not be considered. All submissions will be acknowledged by email.

Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. Submissions should contain no information or materials that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication, and should cite no publications that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.

For questions on paper submissions, please contact the papers co-chairs at: [email protected].

Christine Halverson
IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Volker Wulf
University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany