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Final Call for Papers:

First international workshop on "Collaborative usage and development 
of models and visualizations" at ECSCW 2011

Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2011

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---Organizers---

Alexander Nolte, Michael Prilla, Thomas Herrmann; University of Bochum, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, Gwendolyn Kolfschoten; TU Delft, Netherlands

---Workshop Content---

In the workshop, we want to bring together researchers and practitioners
reporting on the usage and development of shared visualizations, be it e.g.
process models or others. The workshop is intended to provoke discussion and
generate new impulses for practice and research.

The usage of graphical representations of work and business process such as
process models can be considered a common practice in modern organizations. As
their development can become a complex task it is reasonable to draft them
collaboratively. Also they become increasingly useful when used by larger
groups throughout an organization. However despite modeling being a popular
approach in practice, models are hardly used by non-experts and have little
impact on the people actually working in these processes. This raises questions
such as why there is so little use of models after their creation, how this
usage can be increased and which kind of tools and modes of interaction are
suitable for non-modeling experts. Furthermore as collaborative modeling most
of the time remains restricted to collocated facilitated workshops. This
approach however is not feasible as processes have to be rapidly adjusted to
changing conditions inside and outside of an organization. Given the increasing
usage of graphical representations in organizations, their collaborative use
and creation is of vital interest for the CSCW community and therefore this
workshop can be a starting point in forming a research community.

---Topics---

The workshop welcomes different kind of contributions, including the
description of case studies and other empirical work on model usage and
development, position papers e.g. describing future research and educational
experiences with collaborative models usage and development.
Topics of the workshop include but are not restricted to the following:
- Collaborative development of and interaction with models in different
settings such as:
- Processes and approaches of collaborative modeling
- Processes and settings of collaborative usage of process models
- Overcoming barriers for collaborative use and creation of models and
visualizations
- The influence of users on models (e.g. collaborative modeling participants on
models) and the influence of models on users (e.g. users discussing a model and
behavior changes)

---Submission---

We will accept contributions in two different formats:

- Short papers such as reports of best practices or position papers which may
not exceed 3 pages.
- Long papers of such as reports of empirical studies or research in progress
which may not exceed 6 pages.

All contributions have to be formatted according to the ECSCW formatting
instructions and must be submitted in PDF format via eMail to
collabviz@iaw.rub.de.

Author kits and paper templates are available at the ECSCW website
(http://www.ecscw2011.org).

All accepted paper will be published electronically at CEUR Workshop
Proceedings.

For more information on the workshop please visit:
http://www.imtm-iaw.rub.de/events/ecscw/index.html.en

---Important Dates---

01.06.	Abstract submission
15.06.	Full paper submission
31.06.	Acceptance notification

---Program committee---

Joseph Barjis, TU Delft, Netherlands
Kawtar Benghazi, University of Granada, Spain
Vojtech Merunka, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
Manuel Noguera García, University of Granada, Spain
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Pantheon – Sorbonne, France
Carsten Ritterskamp, adesso AG, Germany
Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon – Sorbonne, France
Stefan Strecker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

---Venue---

The ECSCW 2011 conference will be held at Aarhus University, Denmark from
24 to 28 September 2011. ECSCW is a bi-annual, international conference series.
Since 1989, it has engaged researchers and scholars from academia and industry
with high quality presentations and intense discussions (www.ecscw.org). ECSCW
is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and
the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of life.
Submissions should address the unfolding practices of everyday work and life,
and the application of computing technologies in these practices. Papers may
also focus on design of such technologies or on historical accounts of use.
With design is meant processes, methods, and outcoming artefacts. ECSCW
solicits reports reflecting a rich variety of quantitative and qualitative
research methods, including field studies and participatory approaches.
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