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CollabTech 2011
The 6th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies

Dates: August, 29-31, 2011
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Conference Website: http://www.collabtech.org

Co-organized by IPSJ SIG-GN, HIS SIG-CE, and VRSJ SIG-CyberSpace

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CollabTech 2011 will be the sixth international conference on
collaboration technologies. Due to marked advances in networking,
computing and interaction technologies, we are at the cusp of
collaboration technologies being a part of an intricate
network of various types of everyday collaborative processes.
The conference will provide a platform for the international
collaboration technology community to showcase, discuss and
deliberate on state-of-the art, emerging new technology developments
and understanding the social use of these technologies to improve
collaborations.
CollabTech would also like to encourage you to use this opportunity to
present challenging studies, which may be at a very early stage of their
system development, or their exploration of new evaluation methods,
but may trigger exciting technology.

[TOPICS]
Contributions are solicited in all areas of collaboration technology
research and applications. Topics include, but not limited to:
* CSCW system architectures and applications
* Web-based groupware
* Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration
* Collaborative communication systems
* Embodied communication systems
* Shared virtual/augmented environments
* Smart device-based groupware
* Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
* Collaborative entertainment systems
* Computer supported cooperative design (CSCD)
* Social science studies on collaboration

[IMPORTANT DATES]
March 14, 2011 Submission of the paper for review
May 31, 2011 Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2011 Submission of camera-ready manuscripts
August 29-31, 2011 CollabTech2011 Conference

[PAPER SUBMISSION]
Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for
publication. Only electronic submissions (PDF) will be considered. There
are three paper categories and the maximum page length in each category
is:
Full paper: 6 pages
Short paper: 4 pages
Poster paper: 2 pages

The proceedings will be published with ISBN. All submitted papers
will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical
program committee.

[ORGANIZATION]
General Co-Chairs:
Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiroaki Ogata, University of Tokushima, Japan

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan
Kin-ya Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Yoshimichi Wananabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Steering Committee:
Ken-ich Okada, Keio University, Japan
Jun Munemori, Wakayama University, Japan
Minoru, Kobayashi, NTT, Japan

International Advisory Board:
Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Saul Greenburg, University of Calgary, CA
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research, USA
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Susan Fussel, Cornell University, USA
Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dongman Lee, KAIST, Korea
Marcelo Milrad, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany