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17th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology
October 2-7, 2011, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In conjunction with the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative
Systems (SBSC 2011)

http://greco.ppgi.ufrj.br/criwg/

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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The CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology seeks scientific
papers that inform the design, development, deployment, and use of
collaboration technology (groupware) and the work practices they
support. Founded in 1995, CRIWG has become a significant forum for
researchers and professionals to exchange ideas and experiences about
problems and solutions related to collaboration technology.

Most challenges in the collaboration technology field require a
multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach. CRIWG seeks papers on
groupware from a wide variety of academic perspectives and epistemologies,
ranging from collaborative and exploratory research, to theory building and
testing, applied research, design science, engineering, and innovative
evaluation methods. Researchers can report their ideas, theories, models,
designs and experimental results to CRIWG either by submitting full paper
contributions, in case of mature works, and shorter papers reporting
innovative work in progress. As in previous years, the authors of the best
papers will be invited to submit extended versions to selected journals.
PhD students are invited to present their research in the doctoral colloquium.

The CRIWG conference is supported by the Collaboration Research International
Working Group, www.criwg.org, an open community of researchers. Traditionally,
CRIWG is organized in remote places alternating between the Americas and
Europe, with a small number of presentations, fostering critical discussion,
team building and collaboration. The location selected for the CRIWG 2011
conference is Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro will organize the conference.

For the first time, CRIWG will be held in conjunction with the Brazilian
Symposium on Collaborative Systems (SBSC 2011), fostering collaboration
between communities.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Full and Work in Progress Papers:
Submission deadline: April 18, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2011
Camera ready papers: July 4th, 2011

Doctoral Colloquium Papers: deadline to be announced.
Conference: October 2-7, 2011

The CRIWG 2010 conference seeks paper contributions on (but not
limited to) the following key areas:
* Collaboration technologies and technology issues:
-- Streaming and information access
-- Groupware UI considerations
-- Experience design
-- Groupware frameworks & toolkits
-- Groupware design approaches
-- Access control, alerts, attention mechanisms
-- Presence indicators, awareness
-- Collaboration and surface computing
-- Privacy, security, access, IP
--Collaboration in pervasive and ubiquitous settings
* Collaboration concepts and theories
-- Group Productivity, efficiency, effectiveness
-- Theory on satisfaction, acceptance,
-- Adoption, and diffusion
-- Collaboration across and between cultures
-- Trust, Consensus, Commitment
* Aggregated systems
-- Group support systems
-- Collaborative modeling tools
-- Workflow management systems
-- Collaborative project management systems
* Application Domains for Groupware:
-- Medical applications
-- Organizational learning
-- Emergency management
-- Mobile collaboration
-- Gaming
-- Collaborative Engineering or Design
-- e-Government
* Social Aspects of groupware
-- Social creativity
-- Group dynamics and incentives
-- Facilitation and scaffolding of collaboration
-- Virtual worlds, communities
-- Social Network Systems
-- Ethics and values

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Accepted papers will be published by Springer as part of their Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.

Electronic paper submissions are accepted in two categories: full
papers and work in progress papers. Full papers have a length of up to
16 pages based on mature and finished research while work in progress
papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages, both of them following
the Springer LNCS format. Both full and work in progress papers will
appear in the proceedings.

We will use a double-blind reviewing process. Please, do not include
the author's name and affiliation in the submitted paper itself. As
a result of the reviewing process, the Program Committee may suggest
changes in the format and/or the contents of the paper, including the
category of the paper. In this case, a paper will be conditionally
accepted. The PC Chairs will decide on the final acceptance or rejection,
based on the analysis of the revised paper.

The format for the final version will be the Springer LNCS format,
following the templates provided for MS Word and Latex.


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Adriana S. Vivacqua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ORGANIZATION CHAIR
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Marcos Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

STEERING COMMITTEE
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Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Marcos Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Carolina Salgado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
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To be announced

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (under construction)
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Adriana Vivacqua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan , Canada
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico.
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen
José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Marcos Borges, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nelson Baloian, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Robert O. Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Sergio F. Ochoa, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Best regards,
CRIWG Program Chairs
Carl Gutwin & Adriana Vivacqua