Conference Program

Pamela Hinds, Keith Edwards, Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW researchers and practitioners. Students are selected to participate in the colloquium through a competitive review process. The colloquium will include a dinner Friday evening, November 7, and will be held all day Saturday, November 8. Students will display posters of their research during the Interactive Posters session on Monday afternoon/evening.

Doctoral Colloquium Mentors

Pamela Hinds, Stanford University, USA (chair)
Keith Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (chair)
Wendy Kellogg, IBM Research, USA
Nicolas Ducheneaut, PARC, USA
Scott Klemmer, Stanford University, USA
Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK

Doctoral Colloquium Participants

Supporting usability practices in hybrid software development
Paula M. Bach, Penn State University

Rethinking the Role of Representation in HCI
Lucian Leahu, Cornell University

Improving Teamwork Behaviors with Linguistic Feedback
Gilly Leshed, Cornell University

Differentiating the effect of group dynamics on technology appropriation, artifact creation, and performance
Heidy Maldonado, Stanford University

Affect and Information Sharing: Considerations in the Design of Critical Collaborative Information Systems
Helena Mentis, Penn State University

Facilitating Coordination in Computer-Mediated Social Interaction
Takeshi Nishida, University of Tokyo

The potentials of social network sites for passion-centric activities: The role of tie strength
Bernd Ploderer, University of Melbourne

When Computing at Home Doesn't Compute: Supporting Home Network Setup and Maintenance Activities
Erika Shehan Poole, Georgia Tech

Teaching Team Coordination through Location-aware Non-mimetic Simulation Games
Zachary O. Toups, Texas A&M University

Accessibility of Interactive Workspaces: Multi-user, Multi-touch, Multi-device
Dany Vanacken, Hasselt University

Cooperation - challenges in engineers' work: Trajectories of the international division of labor in automobile engineering
Mascha Will-Zocholl, TU Darmstadt

Online support networks and Cancer Pain Management
Jacqueline L. Bender, University of Toronto

Investigating Design for Global Techno-Spiritual Practices
Susan P. Wyche, Georgia Tech

Communi-ties: Supporting Community Connectedness via the Web in Transnational Migrant Networks
Luis A. Castro, University of Manchester

Socio-Culturally Relevant Mobile Applications for Nutrition
Andrea Grimes, Georgia Tech

Community-Based Research Partnerships: An Investigation of Knowledge Portals as Sites for Collaboration
Kathleen Gygi, University of Washington

Optimizing recall through collaboration: An investigation of parallel communication and wikis
Joanne Hinds, Manchester Business School

Using Market Mechanisms to Improve Real-Time Information Exchange
Gary Hsieh, Carnegie Mellon University

Supporting Sensemaking Activity by Members of the Public in Crisis Events
Amanda Lee Hughes, University of Colorado at Boulder

Are Two Screens Better than One? Presentation Tools on High-Resolution and Multiple Displays
Joel Lanir, University of British Columbia