Call for Participation
Group 2005 Papers

Paper submission deadline:      May 23, 2005 at 24.00 EST

Abstracts and titles due:        May 16, 2005

Notification of acceptance:       July 16, 2005

Final versions of papers due:   August 15, 2005

 Papers should present original, unpublished research on technological mediation of activities affecting groups, organizations, and social networks.
 (See Guide to Successful Paper Submissions)

GROUP '05 attempts to integrate two themes of research:

• the organizational and behavioral issues

• the modeling and implementation issues associated with collaborative activity.

 It brings together researchers and practitioners from different areas working on the development, introduction, management, deployment, and analysis of computer-based collaborative systems. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

 Social Impact Issues:

•      Experiences with the computing systems applications that support group or organizational processes
•      New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies
•      Understanding and modeling of groups or organizations
•      Strategies and solutions for the combination or integration of the emerging Internet businesses
•      Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies
•      Digital communities: experiences and evaluation
•      Impacts of wireless, mobile and wearable technologies on cooperative work
•      Field-based analyses of work, entertainment, and domestic environments
•      Ethnographic descriptions of new or novel domains, including new industries and entertainment worlds
•      Social aspects of medical or bio- informatics.
•      Privacy and security
•      New forms of Internet behavior, including peer-to-peer, blogs, and social network-based systems
•      Collaboratories and scientific work
•      Organizational re-use of information
 

 Technical Implementation Issues:

•      Organizational computing systems and infrastructure
•      New groupware solutions and technologies
•      Computer-supported collaboration and negotiation
•      Coordination and workflow technology
•      Cooperative knowledge management, organizational learning and organizational memory
•      Cooperative technologies for education, entertainment and social life
•      Innovative forms of human-computer interaction for cooperative technologies
 

Theory, methodology, systems and concept papers should present new theories, methodologies, empirical results, architectures, prototype systems, or design concepts that stimulate new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting, shared activities. Application and practice papers should describe experiences with systems that support shared activities. All papers should make the case, in the paper itself, for how the work relates to previous research or experience and what aspects of the work are new. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity.

Papers should be no longer than 10 pages, including the abstract, all figures and references, and should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template.  Note that this template uses the new ACM proceedings format, which is not the same as the old SIGCHI format. Please be sure to download and use the new template. Papers should include an abstract of no more than 100 words. Papers will be blind reviewed. All authors' names and affiliations should be blanked out on the copy that is submitted for review. Also make sure that any other identifying information is blanked out, e.g. references that can identify authors.

 GROUP 2005 Papers must be submitted online at the GROUP 2005 conference site:

 https://precisionconference.com/~group/

 You will need to register at the site if you do not already have an account. After logging on, follow the "new submissions" link to make your submission.
 Paper submissions must be received by May 23, 2005 at 24.00 EST.
 Abstracts and titles due May 16, 2005
 Submissions received after this date will not be considered. All submissions will be acknowledged by email.

 Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All submitted materials for accepted papers will be kept confidential until the date of the conference, 6 November 2005. Submissions should contain no information or materials that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication, and should cite no publications that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.

 Papers Co-Chairs