Conference Program

Technical Program

Saul Greenberg and Gloria Mark, papers chairs
Kori Inkpen and Susan Fussell, notes chairs
Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish, panels chairs

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

	Alberta	Cascade	New Brunswick
6:45-8:45	Breakfast (Alhambra)
9:00-10:30	Performance & Architecture	Panel: Bridging the Disaster and Information Sciences	Supporting Social Play
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-12:30	Lending a Helping Hand: Using Technology to Assist	Social Tagging and Recommending	Displays
12:30-14:30	LUNCH
14:30-16:00	Algorithms for Concurrent Editing	Reflecting on CSCW	The Ears and Eyes Have It: Supporting Audio & Video
16:00-16:30	BREAK
16:30-18:00	Plenary Panel: Twenty Years of CSCW - What Have We Learned? (Cascade)
18:30-22:00	Conference Reception (Brewster's MountView Barbecue, Banff)

[P] = Paper (More info)
[N] = Note (More info)

Tuesday 6:45 - 8:45

Breakfast
Location: Alhambra

Tuesday 9:00 - 10:30

Panel: Bridging the Disaster and Information Sciences
Location: Cascade

Leysia Palen (University of Colorado) - Organizer
Sara Kiesler (Carnegie Mellon University)
Morten Kyng (University of Aarhus)
David Mendonça (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Dennis Wenger (Texas A&M University)

Performance & Architecture
Location: Alberta
Chair: Nicholas Graham

Improving Network Efficiency in Real-Time Groupware with General Message Compression [P]
- Carl Gutwin (University of Saskatchewan)
- Christopher Fedak (University of Saskatchewan)
- Mark Watson (University of Saskatchewan)
- Timothy Bell (Canterbury University)
- Jeff Dyck (University of Saskatchewan)
Response Times in N-user Replicated, Centralized and Proximity-Based Hybrid Collaboration Architectures [P]
- Sasa Junuzovic (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Prasun Dewan (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
A Lightweight Approach to Sharing Heterogeneous Single-User Editors [P]
- Du Li (Texas A&M University)
- Jiajun Lu (Texas A&M University)

Supporting Social Play
Location: New Brunswick
Chair: Wendy Mackay

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft [P]
- Bonnie Nardi (University of California, Irvine)
- Justin Harris (University of California, Irvine)
Sounds Good to Me: Effects of Photo and Voice Profiles on Gaming Partner Choice [N]
- Jens Riegelsberger (University College London/Framfab UK Ltd)
- Scott Counts (Microsoft Research)
- Shelly D. Farnham (Microsoft Research/Farnham Research)
- Bruce C. Phillips (Microsoft Game Studios)
Sandboxes: Supporting Social Play through Collaborative Multimedia Composition on Mobile Phones (Best Note Nominee) [N]
- David Fono (University of Toronto)
- Scott Counts (Microsoft Research)
A Face(book) in the Crowd: Social Searching vs. Social Browsing [N]
- Cliff Lampe (Michigan State University)
- Nicole Ellison (Michigan State University)
- Charles Steinfield (Michigan State University)

Tuesday 10:30 - 11:00

BREAK
Location: Riverview Lounge

Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30

Social Tagging and Recommending
Location: Cascade
Chair: Wendy Kellogg

Don’t Look Stupid: Avoiding Pitfalls when Recommending Research Papers [P]
- Sean McNee (University of Minnesota)
- Nishikant Kapoor (University of Minnesota)
- Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota)
Tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution (Best Paper Nominee) [P]
- Shilad Sen (University of Minnesota)
- Shyong K. (Tony) Lam (University of Minnesota)
- Al Mamunur Rashid (University of Minnesota)
- Dan Cosley (University of Minnesota)
- Dan Frankowski (University of Minnesota)
- Jeremy Osterhouse (University of Minnesota)
- F. Maxwell Harper (University of Minnesota)
- John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
What goes around comes around: An analysis of del.icio.us as social space [N]
- Kathy J. Lee (Stanford University)
Shared Waypoints and Social Tagging to Support Collaboration in Software Development [N]
- Margaret-Anne Storey (University of Victoria)
- Li-Te Cheng (IBM)
- Peter Rigby (University of Victoria)
- R. Ian Bull (University of Victoria)

Lending a Helping Hand: Using Technology to Assist
Location: Alberta
Chair: Gloria Mark

Technology in Spiritual Formation: An Exploratory Study of Computer Mediated Religious Communications (Best Paper Nominee) [P]
- Susan P. Wyche (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Gillian R. Hayes (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Lonnie D. Harvel (Electrical and Computing Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Rebecca E. Grinter (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
From the War Room to the Living Room: Decision Support for Home-based Therapy Teams (Best Paper Nominee) [P]
- Julie A. Kientz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Gillian R. Hayes (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Gregory D. Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Rebecca E. Grinter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Practical Indispensability of Articulation Work to Immediate and Remote Help-giving [P]
- Jacki O'Neill (Work Practice Technology Group, Xerox Research Centre Europe)
- Peter Tolmie (School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham)
- Stefania Castellani (Work Practice Technology Group, Xerox Research Centre Europe)
- Tommaso Colombino (Work Practice Technology Group, Xerox Research Centre Europe)
- Antonietta Grasso (Work Practice Technology Group, Xerox Research Centre Europe)
- Andy Crabtree (School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham)

Displays
Location: New Brunswick
Chair: Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Making Things Work: Dimensions of Configurability as Appropriation Work (Best Paper Nominee) [P]
- Ellen Balka (Simon Fraser University)
- Ina Wagner (Vienna University of Technology)
The Wheel of Collaboration Tools: A Typology for Analysis within a Holistic Framework [P]
- Per Einar Weiseth (Statoil)
- Bjørn Erik Munkvold (Agder University College)
- Bjørn Tvedte (Statoil)
- Sjur Larsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
The Uses of Paper in Commercial Airline Flight Operations [P]
- Saeko Nomura (Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego)
- Edwin Hutchins (Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego)
- Barbara Holder (Flight Deck Concept Center, Boeing Commercial Airplanes)

Tuesday 12:30 - 14:30

LUNCH
Location: On your own

Tuesday 14:30 - 16:00

Algorithms for Concurrent Editing
Location: Alberta
Chair: Du Li

Data Consistency for P2P Collaborative Editing [P]
- Gérald Oster (Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich)
- Pascal Urso (University of Nancy)
- Pascal Molli (University of Nancy)
- Abdessamad Imine (University of Nancy)
Draw-Together: Graphical Editor for Collaborative Drawing [P]
- Claudia-Lavinia Ignat (Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich)
- Moira C. Norrie (Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich)
Operation context and context-based operational transformation [P]
- David Sun (Computer Science Division, EECs, University of California, Berkeley)
- Chengzheng Sun (School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University)

Reflecting on CSCW
Location: Cascade
Chair: Gary Olson

The Chasms of CSCW: A Citation Graph Analysis of CSCW Conferences [P]
- Michal Jacovi (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
- Natalia Marmasse (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
- Vladimir Soroka (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
- Sigalit Ur (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
- Elad Shahar (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
- Gail Gilboa-Freedman (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
Re-Space-ing Place: "Place" and "Space" Ten Years On [P]
- Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine)
Revisiting Whittaker & Sidner’s "Email Overload"; Ten Years Later [N]
- Danyel Fisher (Microsoft Research)
- A.J. Bernheim Brush (Microsoft Research)
- Eric Gleave (University of Washington)
- Marc Smith (Microsoft Research)

The Ears and Eyes Have It: Supporting Audio & Video
Location: New Brunswick
Chair: Kori Inkpen

Moving Office: Inhabiting a Dynamic Building [P]
- Holger Schnädelbach (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham)
- Alan Penn (The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)
- Phil Steadman (The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)
- Steve Benford (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham)
- Boriana Koleva (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham)
- Tom Rodden (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham)
A Comparison of Chat and Audio in Media Rich Environments [P]
- Jeremiah Scholl (Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine & Luleå University of Technology)
- John McCarthy (University College London, Department of Computer Science)
- Rikard Harr (Umeå University, Department of Informatics)
Improving Audio Conferencing: Why two ears are better than one [P]
- Nicole Yankelovich (Sun Microsystems)
- Jonathan Kaplan (Sun Microsystems)
- Joe Provino (Sun Microsystems)
- Mike Wessler (Skyward Mobile)
- Joan Morris DiMicco (Sun Microsystems)

Tuesday 16:00 - 16:30

BREAK
Location: Riverview Lounge

Tuesday 16:30 - 18:00

Plenary Panel: Twenty Years of CSCW - What Have We Learned?
Location: Cascade
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Irene Greif (IBM Research) - Organizer
Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research)
Thomas Malone (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
Judith Olson (University of Michigan)
Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University )

Tuesday 18:30 - 22:00

Conference Reception
Location: Brewster's MountView Barbecue, Banff
Buses leave from the Fairmont at 18:30 and 18:50.

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