Panels

CSCW 2002 Home

Conference Program   Workshops   Tutorials   Plenary Addresses   Papers   Panels   Videos   Interactive Posters   Demonstrations   Special Events   Doctoral Colloquium

Registration & Fees

Local Information

Call For Participation

Author Kit

Benefactors & Sponsors

Conference Committee

Related Conferences

CSCWPlace

 

Monday, 11/18, 14:30-16:00 in Regency E

Perspectives on Privacy for CSCW Designers

Moderator: John C. Tang, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA

Panelists: Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, USA, Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research, USA, Ellen Isaacs, Izix Consulting, USA, and Mark Rouncefield, Lancaster University, UK

Privacy has become a topic of increased public concern that has many implications in the design of CSCW systems. Privacy concerns end up spanning across technical, social, policy, and cultural domains. CSCW systems have the additional challenge of having to address individual differences among users that may have to share the consequences of privacy decisions. The panel will gather different perspectives on privacy to help highlight the key issues in CSCW design and describe various approaches for dealing with them.

Tuesday, 11/19, 09:00-10:30 in Regency E

Computer Supported Cooperative Theatre

Moderator: Don Marinelli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Panelists: Brenda Harger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Adriene Jenik, University of California, San Diego, USA, Susan Kim, Playwright; Freelance TV/Screenwriter, New York, USA, David Polinchock, New York University, USA, and Chris Smith, Ensemble Studio Theatre New York, USA

This panel will explore the degree to which digital technologies can alter the very structure of live theatrical performance, beyond the use of computers as special effect generators. Is there a way in which the computer can assist in creating a new kind of theatre, a theatre wherein the fundamental principles of what it means to be an "actor" and what it means to be an "audience member" are altered? And, if so, how will this computer-mediated theatre differ from what passes presently for live theatrical performance?

Conference attendees are encouraged to attend and experience performances of the play, Virtual Meditation #1, which will be performed at the conference during the Monday evening Demos and Posters Reception, the evening before the panel.

Tuesday, 11/19, 14:30-16:00 in Regency E

Collective Security, Distributed Organization: Why Not?

Moderator: Tora Bikson, RAND, USA

Panelists: Donald Prosnitz, Department of Justice, USA, Larry Brandt, National Science Foundation, USA, Ruby DeMesme, IBM Global Services, USA, and Paul Light, The Brookings Institution, USA

Discussant: James Morris, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

In the aftermath of the events of September 11 2001, inquiries revealed that a great deal of potentially relevant information had been available in advance to federal agencies. But it was piecemeal, with incomplete chunks of data isolated in specific levels or units within the same or different organizations involved. Thus no one was able "to connect the dots," as the media put it. In response, the President proposed creating a new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. The assumption underlying this initiative is that problems arising from lack of information sharing, coordinated analysis and decisionmaking could be resolved by gathering up many different functions that now reside in multiple agencies and housing them together in a single institution.A panel involving representatives of federal agencies and organizations that advise them will provide informed perspectives on these isssues. Audience participation in the discussion that follows panelists' presentations is expected to contribute to the policy debate while raising stimulating topics for future CSCW research.

Wednesday, 11/20, 09:00-10:30 in Regency E

Representations of Practice in Design: Reductionist or Indispensable?

Moderator: Jeanette Blomberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Panelists: John Carroll, Virginia Tech, USA, Dave Randall, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Rick Robinson, Sapient Corporation, USA, Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK, and Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK

CSCW has been at the forefront of developing innovative approaches to integrating social science research with technology design. Wild claims have been made and cautionary tales told at past CSCW conferences about the value of studies of practice as a basis for system design. This panel leaves that debate behind and starts instead with the question of just what form representations of practice take in design. The various representational forms that have been developed to convey a rendering of practice for design (for example task flows, use cases, scenarios, user profiles and more recently work flow) have different origins, that make a difference to their uses and usefulness. The questions addressed by the members of this panel are: Do we need identifiable and replicable representations of practice? If so, what form should they take? What are the benefits and risks of codification and standardization? And how do representations of practice actually become useful in the process of design?

cscw2002-info @ acm.org