 Important dates: Papers & Notes Due March 11, 2012, 24.00 PST Workshops Due March 31, 2012, 24.00 PST Panels Due April 30, 2012, 24.00 PST Notification of Workshops acceptances April 15, 2012 Notification of Papers & Notes acceptances May 10, 2012 Notification of Panels acceptances May 31, 2012 Doctoral Colloquium materials Due June 1, 2012, 24.00 PST Poster and Demonstration abstracts Due July 1, 2012, 24.00 PST Notification of Doctoral Colloquium, Poster, & Demonstration acceptances August 1, 2012 |
Group 2012 provides many opportunities for attendees to participate. Submissions to the conference can be in the form of papers, notes, workshops, panels, and posters. Accepted papers and notes will be published in the ACM Press Conference Proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Group 2012 seeks to bring 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. Conference topics include:
All submissions (papers, notes, posters, workshops, panels) must use the ACM SIG template at: |
Papers & Notes
Papers and Notes are invited that report on original, unpublished, research or describe industrial experiences on any of the conference topics. Research papers should make a novel contribution towards support for groups, organizations or social networks. Industrial papers should describe technical or key business issues in applying group technology.
Group 2012 is pleased to announce that it will have a "Best of Group" awards program. This program will run in accordance with SIGCHI guidelines. Approximately 5% of submissions may be nominated for best Paper or Note and 1% of total submissions will be awarded "Best of Group" status.
Papers will be 10 pages in length and Notes 4 pages in length. Notes may be smaller studies, novel pieces of technology, results from the replication or slight modification of a previously published study or other contributions that while original may not be as substantial as those found in a full length paper. Notes will be reviewed alongside long papers and expected to be of a similar quality of work despite being a slightly smaller contribution.
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 removed, such as references that can identify the authors. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. 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 and Notes must use must use the ACM SIG template at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
Papers and Notes must be submitted online at the GROUP 2012 conference site: https://precisionconference.com/~group12/
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 March 11, 2012 at 24.00 PST. Submissions received after this date will not be considered.
For questions on paper submissions, please contact the papers co-chairs at: papers@group2012.org.
Workshops
Please note that the deadline to submit workshops to Group '12 has been updated to March 31st.
Workshops provide an informal and focused environment for the information exchange and discussion of GROUP related topics. A workshop proposal should contain a title, aim and objective, workshop description, intended participants and the strategy for recruiting them, and the value for the field of collaborative & social computing and for this conference. It should also specify the maximum number of participants, the planned duration (half-day / full-day) and the audio/visual equipment needed. We encourage diverse and experimental workshop formats, and we would be happy to discuss your innovative ideas in advance of the March 31 deadline.
About the topics, in addition to the areas listed in the general Group'12 call for contributions (see "Organizational and Social Issues" and "Technical and Implementation Issues"), we strongly encourage workshop proposals about emerging areas such as crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, e-democracy, etc.
Please submit a maximum of four pages, using the conference paper format directly to the workshop co-chairs at: workshops@group2012.org.
The submissions are due by March 31th and the notifications will be sent by April 15th. Workshops will take place on Saturday, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th. We look forward to your topic ideas for deep and collaborative discussions.
Panels
Panels provide an interactive forum for debating or exploring innovative and emerging themes in the Group related topics. The best panels assemble diverse group of experts with differing points of view on the topic to frame the argument and incite audience participation. We encourage submissions featuring either the conventional debate format, or new and innovative approaches that explore diverse perspectives through non-debate processes -- especially formats that can increase audience participation. A panel proposal should contain a title, abstract, intended structure, list of invited panelists including a brief biographical sketch for each.
Please submit a maximum of four pages, using the conference paper format directly to the Panels co-chairs at: panels@group2012.org.
Panels take place during the three days of the conference. We look forward to your new and challenging ideas.
Posters
Posters and demos are an opportunity to present late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a Paper or a Note submission, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, student research, and other research best presented in this open format. Posters and demos will be displayed at a special session in the conference when poster and demo authors will be available to discuss their work.
Posters and demos are to be a maximum of 2 pages ACM format with concise submissions appreciated.
Please send materials directly to the Posters and Demos co-chairs at: posters@group2012.org.
Doctoral Colloquium
The Doctoral Colloquium (DC) is a forum in which up to 12 Ph.D. candidates will meet and discuss their work with each other and with a panel of four experienced researchers and practitioners, including Dan Cosley (Cornell University), Dave Randall (University of Siegen), Pernille Bjørn (IT University Copenhagen), and Aleksandra Sarcevic (Drexel University).
The DC goals are to: (1) build a cohort of new researchers; (2) provide constructive criticism from experts in participants' research fields; (3) encourage research on GROUP-related topics; (4) enable promising new researchers to attend a leading research conference; (5) illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of GROUP research; and (6) make participants' GROUP experience enjoyable and rewarding so as to encourage them to participate in future GROUP conferences.
The colloquium will be a full-day event on October 28, 2012. Participants will give short, informal presentations of their work and receive constructive critiques from both faculty panelists and other DC members. There will also be time for discussing professionalization issues. Participants will also present their work to the larger GROUP community during the interactive poster session on October 30, 2012. Because a primary goal is to enculturate participants into both GROUP and the scholarly community, DC participants are expected to stay for the entire conference. To this end, we will cover registration, lodging, and to the extent possible, travel costs. We gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the DC.
We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches that inform the GROUP conference, including CSCW, information technology, information science, HCI, organizational studies, social informatics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, computer science, cognitive science, and related fields. Applicants should be at or near candidacy and actively engaged in their dissertation research.
Applications should include (1) a two-page description of the applicant's dissertation research, including an abstract of no more than 150 words, formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template; (2) a current curriculum vita; (3) a cover letter explaining why they wish to attend the GROUP DC and the name of their faculty advisor(s); and (4) a brief letter of recommendation from the advisor confirming their appropriateness for the DC.
These materials should be e-mailed to Aleksandra and Dan, the Doctoral Colloquium co-chairs, at dc@group2012.org. All submissions will be acknowledged by email; submissions received after this date will not be considered. Participants will be chosen with an emphasis on diversity of topics, participants, approaches, and institutions. Questions about the DC can also be sent to the chairs at dc@group2012.org.