[Apologies for possible
crosspostings]
Call for Participation
Workshop "Hybrid Collaboration
- Moving Beyond Purely Co-Located or Remote
Collaboration" @ ECSCW 2019, Salzburg, Austria
*) Important Dates
Deadline for submission of
position papers: April 15, 2019.
Notification of acceptance:
May 2, 2019.
Date of Workshop: June 8,
2019.
*) Introduction
New collaborative practices
and technologies increasingly blur the traditional
boundaries between co-located and remote collaboration.
Using technologies such as connected interactive
whiteboards and mobile devices, team meetings are
increasingly partially distributed with co-located and
remote members. Collaboration tools such as Slack also
invite users to transcend the dichotomy of synchronous
and asynchronous team work.
In a first attempt to frame
this new kind of collaborative practices, Neumayr et al.
(2018) have formulated their framework of “Hybrid
Collaboration” to enable the description and analysis of
current hybrid collaboration practices. Still, there is
a considerable knowledge gap in the field of hybrid
collaboration although it is daily common practice.
This one-day workshop aims at
bringing together researchers and practitioners working
on empirical research methodologies and currently
existing practical use cases of hybrid collaboration
while ultimately striving for a high level of usability
and UX in the tools we develop in the realm of either
co-located or remote collaboration settings.
*) Workshop Topics
The topics dealt with in this
workshop include but are not limited to:
- What are the opportunities
and challenges of researching hybrid collaboration
today?
- How can collaborative
practices in hybrid meetings/events be studied in
naturalistic environments?
- How can we prototype hybrid
collaboration and conduct controlled experiments?
- Which established,
alternative, or entirely novel research methods can help
to tackle those challenges?
- How can we reach a shared
conceptualization and understanding of hybrid
collaboration, meetings and events? These concepts are
often expressed through other similar terminologies such
as remote, online, hybrid, or virtual collaboration,
meetings, and events in partially distributed teams,
virtual teams, etc.
*) Call for Participation
Please consider contributing
to this workshop:
Participants will be selected
based on their position paper submissions (up to 4 pages
in length using the recent ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts
format: https://sigchi.org/templates/).
The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop
organizers and judged by their quality concerning
relevance and potential to stimulate discussion at the
workshop.
Submissions should be sent to
thomas.neumayr(at)fh-hagenberg.at and
banu.saatci(at)cc.au.dk in .pdf format
on or before April 15, 2019.
The notification to the
workshop participants will be distributed on May 2,
2019.
Accepted position papers will
be distributed among the participants well before the
workshop to allow a familiarization with each others’
topics. In this process, participants are asked to
reflect on the other submissions and bring questions
with them.
*) Organizers
Thomas Neumayr, Mirjam
Augstein, Hans-Christian Jetter, University of Applied
Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus, Austria
Banu Saatci, Clemens Klokmose,
Aarhus University, Denmark
Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis,
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Sean Rintel, Microsoft
Research Cambridge, UK