• Workshop 1: Analysing the quality of collaboration in
task-oriented computer-mediated interactions
• Workshop 2: Mobile Collaboration Systems: Challenges for
design, work practice, infrastructure, and business
• Workshop 3: The mediation role of shared representation in
cooperative activities: new challenges
• Workshop 4: Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based
Collaboration (Webcentives)
Tuesday, May. 18, 09:00–18:00
W1: Analysing the quality of collaboration in task-oriented computer-mediated interactions
• Françoise Détienne (CNRS, Telecom ParisTech, France)
• Michael Baker (CNRS, Telecom ParisTech, Fance)
• Jean-Marie Burkhardt (University Paris Descartes, France)
• Hans Spada (Universität Freiburg, Germany).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working across
the cognitive, social and computational sciences on
understanding collaborative activities. With the growing
importance of technology mediation for group work and learning,
developing methods for assessing the quality of collaboration
is central to both CSCW and CSCL research. Groupware aims to
support collaborative activities that are effective in terms of
group efficiency, one aspect of which is the quality of the
process of collaboration itself. This workshop thus aims to
focus on understanding interrelations between group processes,
outcomes of group-work and technology affordances, by comparing
activity-based studies of the quality of collaboration in
task-oriented computer-mediated interactions. Broader aims are
to devise methods for training groups for more effective
collaboration, and to enable participants in group-work to
become reflexively aware of the nature of their participation.
Aspects of this kind will contribute to the elaboration of
theories and models of collaboration, as well as to methods for
evaluating computer-supported cooperative/collaborative work
and learning.
Workshop website: http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/baker/coop-workshop2010/
W2: Mobile Collaboration Systems: Challenges for design, work practice, infrastructure, and business
• Maria Danninger (mm1 Consulting & Management PartG,
Germany)
• Wolfgang Gräther (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
• Tobias Heer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Mobile devices are expected to soon become the “primary
computer” and tool for sharing and connecting with others. In
our thriving world of mobile communication, technological
advances have brought a number of novel and improved ways of
collaboration; in business, commerce, healthcare, education,
and society in general. Collaboration can help to overcome the
limitations of a single user, device, and network. However,
creating mobile collaborative applications and systems requires
careful consideration and design.
This workshop aims to bring together designers, practitioners
and researchers who share an interest in the study and design
of mobile collaborative systems.
Workshop web page: http://www.tinyurl.com/mobileCollaboration
W3: The mediation role of shared representation in cooperative activities: new challenges
• Jean-François Boujut (G-SCOP-Grenoble INP-CNRS)
• Frédéric Roulland (Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE)
• Stefania Castellani (Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE)
• Jutta Willamowski (Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE)
• David Martin (Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE)
In a globalized world, where cooperation happens more and more
across boundaries, the need for mediation in cooperative work
is growing and we believe that there is an opportunity as well
as a challenge in thinking about the design of mediation
support. In many cooperative activities related to problem
framing or solving, shared representations of the object of the
work are manipulated by the participants.
Shared representations not only represent the problem to be
solved but they also constitute the medium for building the
solution through cooperation among actors that may have
different points of view and may be separated across location,
time, organisation and expertise. Thus the design of the shared
representations strongly affects the way in which the
cooperation will take place.
This workshop is aimed at contributing to characterize the
dimensions related to mediation that should be considered when
designing new cooperative systems involving representations of
shared objects.
Workshop web page: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/Research-Development/Services-Innovation-Laboratory/Work-Practice-Technology/COOP-10-workshop
W4: Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives)
• Elena Simperl, Innsbruck University, Austria
• Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy
• Markus Rohde, Siegen University, Germany
Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on
large-scale user participation. Open Source Software projects
(OSS), gaming and other online communities are constituted by
voluntary engagement of contributors, almost self-organized and
self-managed. Also large-scale intranet applications of
business companies and non-governmental organizations are
increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web technologies and
community-building.
The workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to
participate in (online) communities and to contribute to
collaborative content creation.
Workshop web page: http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/WEBCENTIVES/index.htm
