Scope

GROUP’05 attempts to integrate two themes of research: the organizational and behavioral issues and 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. We particularly encourage submissions and participation from industry. 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