About Group

The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work is a premier venue for research on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.

Group 2014 continues the tradition of being truly international in both organizational structure as well as participants, and key for the program is to encourage and facilitate researchers within HCI and CSCW to interact across disciplinary interest. We want the ethnographers to talk to system designers and vice versa - and we also want to encourage high-level research contributions from interdisciplinary groups to present work which might be difficult to place within one simple category and thus might be challenging to find a suitable venue which appreciate.

We are open for a plurality of research methods, and are looking forward to the latest findings within broad areas such as technology, society, a nd human interaction in different types of work practices including organizations, home, healthcare, and leisure.

GROUP 2014 in particular would like to encourage both practitioners, industrial partners, and academics to participate.

2014 Conference Chairs:
Sean Goggins and Isa Jahnke

Group Steering Committee
Mark Ackerman
Hilda Tellioglu
Kori Inkpen
Stephanie Teasley
Stephan Lukosch
Tom Gross

General Information

*** Download the Call for Participation here *** (note the revised timeline for submissions, available below)

Submission overviewSubmissions to the conference are welcome in form of research papers (both short and long), work-in-progress papers, posters, and workshops proposals. Accepted research papers and posters are published in the ACM Press Conference Proceedings and in the ACM digital Library. Work-in-progress papers and workshop proposals will be published in a paper-based supplement.

Submission Types

Papers - The papers venue provides 30 minutes to present and interact with the audience. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and ACM Digital Library. Please use the ACM standard format for submissions. There is no page limit for papers, though clear rationale should be given for papers that exceed 10 pages.

Working papers (WoPs) - are contributions in which the authors are working towards a journal submission and would like to discuss their work with their colleagues at GROUP. Our goal is to broaden the conversations at GROUP, with a format that may appeal to colleagues whose primary publications are in journals, rather than conference papers.

WoPs will not published in the conference proceedings, but will be distributed in a paper based conference supplement at the GROUP conference for the attendees only. Therefore, you are free to seek formal publication of draft journal submissions that appears in a WoP. Working papers will be reviewed by the WoPs co-chairs and members of the GROUP Program Committee. Authors will not be asked to do revisions; all decisions will be made based on the submission "as-is". We hope to offer you a *lightweight* process, to expand the GROUP community and discussions.

Accepted WoPs, will be allocated a 10 min slot to present their work, with the goal of prompting discussion among GROUP community about the the work, supporting the authors moving the paper forward for the journal publication. The primary acceptance criteria for WoPs is that the work be interesting, fascinating, surprising, and have a high probability of prompting good and interesting debates.

WoP submissions should be in the ECSCW proceedings template format (available here). Submissions, however, need not to follow the citation style of ECSCW. This is to simplify submission as WoP, but also to the intended journal. WoP submissions should be approx. 12 pages in the ECSCW format. The page limit will, however, not be enforced to allow authors to submit the most current version of their future journal submission.

Posters/Demos - Posters and demos are an opportunity to present late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a Paper or a Note submission, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, student research, and other research best presented in this open format. Posters and demos will be displayed at a special session in the conference when poster and demo authors will be available to discuss their work. In addition, the audience will vote on the TOP 3 posters and/or demos.

Poster submissions should include an extended abstract no longer than 4 pages, including all figures and references, in ACM Standard Format (available here). In addition, submissions should also include a separate Tabloid (11 x 17 inches) sized draft of the poster for review purposes. Both the extended abstract and the poster draft should include author names (these are not anonymous submissions). Please send submissions directly to co-chairs at [email protected].

Workshop proposals - Workshops provide an informal and focused environment for the information exchange and discussion of Group related topics. We offer half or full day workshop venues. Proposals should include an abstract (max 150 words) a title, description of workshop theme, aim, goals, activities and potential outcomes. It should also specify audio/visual equipment needed, maximum number of participants, the duration of the workshop (half or full day) and the names and backgrounds of the organizer(s). Please submit a maximum of four pages, using the ACM standard format for submissions. We encourage topics suitable for developing new ideas and deep discussions.


Workshops are now available!
Learn more at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group14/workshops.html


Doctoral Colloquium - The Doctoral Colloquium provides a forum for sharing ongoing Ph.D. projects of participants who wish to join the competitively advanced Ph.D. students with distinguished faculty for mentoring and feedback.
Learn more about the Doctoral Colloquium here.

Important Dates

Submissions
February 13th, 2014 (by 23:59 Pacific time): Papers submission at the conference site (inquiries only to [email protected])
May 7th, 2014: Doctoral Colloquium application submission (more info on the Doctoral Colloquium is available here)
May 16th, 2014: Workshop proposals submission, sent directly to co-chairs ([email protected])
August 1st, 2014: Posters/Demos submission, sent directly to co-chairs ([email protected])
August (date varies by workshop - full list is available here), 2014: Workshop Participant Submissions
August 20th, 2014: Working Papers submission (to [email protected])

Notifications
April 25th, 2014: Notification of Papers acceptance
June 1st, 2014: Notification of Workshops acceptance
June 6th, 2014: Notification of Doctoral Colloquium acceptance
August 17th, 2014: Notification of Posters/Demos acceptance
September 5th, 2014: Notification of Working Papers acceptance

Conference Topics
     
  • Supporting group work
  • Organizational issues of technology design, use, or adaptation
  • Emerging technologies in work, home, leisure, entertainment, or education
  • Theoretical conceptual argument about key concepts relevant for CSCW and HCI
  • Cross-cultural collaboration
  • Learning at the workplace (CSCL at work, Technology-Enhanced Learning, TEL)
  • Social computing and contexts of collaboration
  • Mobile and wearable technologies in collaboration
  • New forms of internet behaviour, including social media and MOOCs
  • Computer supported collaborative learning
  • Global collaboration
  • Online communities
  • Strategies for business use of technology
  • Innovative collaborative technologies
  • Technical architectures supporting collaboration
  • New tool/toolkits for collaborative technologies
  • Coordination and workflow technology
  • Cooperative knowledge management
  • Innovative forms of human computer interaction for cooperative technologies
  • Ethnographic studies
  • Socio-technical studies
  • socio-technical studies of computing


  • Questions? Please contact program chairs Pernille Bjørn and David McDonald