Accepted Workshops

Accepted workshops are listed below.

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W1. The Future of Networked Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities

Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Contact: Jessica Vitak, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Pamela Wisniewski, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Xinru Page, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California-Irvine
Airi Lampinen, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
Eden Litt, Media, Technology & Society, Northwestern University
Ralf de Wolf, iMinds-SMIT, Brussels
Patrick Gage Kelley, Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico
Manya Sleeper, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract:

Building on recent research in privacy management and disclosure in networked spaces, this two-day workshop examines networked privacy challenges from a broader perspective by (1) identifying the most important issues researchers will need to address in the next decade and (2) working to create actionable solutions for these privacy issues. This workshop comes at a critical time for organizations, researchers, and consumers, as content-sharing applications soar in popularity and more privacy and security vulnerabilities emerge. Workshop participants and organizers will work together to develop a guiding framework for the community that highlights the future challenges and opportunities of networked privacy.

To participate in the workshop, submission and acceptance of a position paper is required. For details on the workshop, including topics of interest and the preliminary schedule, visit:
http://networkedprivacy2015.wordpress.com.


W2. Moving Beyond e-Health and the Quantified Self

Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham
Contact: mc schraefel, University of Southampton
Erika Poole, Penn State
Sean Munson, University of Washington
Catalina Danis, IBM Watson
Elizabeth Churchill, Google

Abstract:

In this workshop, we propose to situate health, first as a proactive (de-medicalised) experience that facilitates innovation, creativity and improved quality of life; second, we seek specifically to use this workshop to explore how CSCW methods and design experience may inform such an exploration to support interactive technology from social/industrial collaborative infrastructure to individual/social interactive systems for what we call Wellth Creation, that is sustainable health and wellbeing IT that is Proactive and Aspirtational.

We ask, what is the role of CSCW as methodology and epistemology in the development of interactive technology for Proactive Health & Wellbing? What contributions are CSCW researchers best prepared make to the critical and timely development of re-designing our cultures to support health as a social good? This workshop proposes to dedicate its two days to exploring these questions and to produce a research agenda for CSCW for Proactive Health. These questions are both critical and timely.

Website and full workshop outline: http://cscw2015.tumblr.com/about


W3. Information Technology and City Life

Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research Lab Dublin
Contact: Sheena Erte, DePaul University
Contact: Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh
Gary Hsieh, University of Washington
Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
Claudia Lopez, University of Pittsburgh
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona
Raz Schwartz, Cornell Tech NYC
Amy Voida, Indiana University Indianapolis

Abstract:

Challenges of local communities such as encouraging civic engagement and facilitating collaboration to address local issues have motivated researchers and practitioners to explore the role of technologies in the city life. The goal of this workshop is to open a discussion on how to design, build and study technology infrastructure to support cities, neighborhoods and local communities. We aim to create a publicly accessible repository of infrastructure tools and to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas about technology in local contexts among the researchers, practitioners and residents interested in this area. At the workshop, participants will collaborate with Vancouver’s residents and technology practitioners in order to explore the past, present and future of research in this space, co-construct the infrastructuring tools repository, discuss key information challenges of local communities and brainstorm solutions and opportunities to address them. Discussion and ideas generated will be archived online to be available to the larger research community.

Workshop website: http://citytech.apps-1and1.com/


W4. Let's Talk About Sex(Apps), CSCW

Saturday March 14

Organizers:

Jeremy Birnholtz, Northwestern University
Contact: Mark Handel, The Boeing Company
Irina Shklovski, IT University Copenhagen
Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University

Abstract:

Location-based social network apps for dating have had explosive growth over the past few years. Although they have many possible uses, casual and sexual encounters remain an important part of their draw. For CSCW, these apps are interesting to study: they offer a context to explore issues of identity and self-presentation, geography and locality, privacy and security, as well as motivation and usage habits.

In this one-day workshop, we invite researchers, students, and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds, including CSCW, computer science, sociology, and public health, to discuss these issues and more, as well as exploring the difficulties and challenges inherent in this research. In addition to exploring the issues around apps for sex and dating, participants will also help to bring some of these sensitive, yet important topics into the mainstream of CSCW research.

Details of submissions for interested participants are available at the workshop website: http://www.markjhandel.com/index.php/CSCWSexApps.


W5. Ethics for Studying Online Sociotechnical Systems in a Big Data World

Saturday March 14

Organizers:

Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech
Contact: Casey Fiesler, Georgia Tech
Mary Gray, Microsoft Research
Jeff Hancock, Cornell
Wayne Lutters, UMBC
Tamara Peyton, Penn State
Alyson Young, UMBC

Abstract:

The evolution of social technology and research methods present ongoing challenges to studying people online. Recent high-profile cases have prompted discussion among both the research community and the general public about the ethical implications of researching humans, their information, and their activities in large-scale digital contexts. Examples of scientific and market research involving Facebook users and OKCupid clients exemplify the ethical complexities of both studying and manipulating online user behavior. When does data science become human subjects research, and what are our obligations to these subjects as researchers? Drawing from previous work around the ethics of digital research, one goal of this workshop is to work towards a set of guiding principles for CSCW scholars doing research online.

Workshop website: http://cscwethics2015.wordpress.com


W6. Advancing an industry/academic partnership model for Open Collaboration research

Saturday March 14

Organizers:

Contact: Jonathan Morgan, Wikimedia Foundation
Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation
Tim Hwang, Imgur
Sean Goggins, University of Missouri

Abstract:

Open collaboration systems like Wikipedia, Imgur, Zooniverse, StackExchange, and Reddit have shown that networked communities of volunteer contributors can produce and maintain immense, valuable public resources. A growing body of work within the CSCW research community has come to recognize novel opportunities and challenges that openness brings with it. For example:

  • Distributed production and the need for quality control
  • Maintaining volunteer motivation to participate
  • Distributing the processes for articulation and governance
  • Community maintenance via socializing newcomers

However, findings from these academic studies do not always permeate the boundaries between scholarship and practice. Furthermore, many important phenomena related to peer production are not yet fully understood. This workshop will focus on characterizing areas of research within the domain of Open Collaboration Systems (OCS’s) where partnerships between academic and industry researchers can both increase our scientific understanding of OCS’s and also support those systems through research. This workshop's purpose is to bring together researchers on both sides of the "data divide" to identify current challenges and opportunities for future research within these research areas, and to develop a preliminary set of requirements for improved resource sharing and collaboration between OC enterprises and academic research institutions.

For more information and to apply see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:CSCW15_workshop.


W7. Doing CSCW Research in Latin America: Differences, Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Saturday March 14

Organizers:

Contact: Rogério de Paula, IBM Research
Marcos R S Borges, PPGI/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Vale Institute of Technology and UFPA
David Randall, University of Siegen
David Millen, IBM Research

Abstract:

The workshop organizers are members of an informal committee currently planning CSCW 2017 in Brazil. As we get set for this event, it is paramount to enroll a broader number of CSCW researchers in Latin America (LA) in the broader CSCW community. CSCW research in LA has been active since the mid 1990’s although largely disconnected from the broader international CSCW. It is critical to acknowledge this history and collectively understand how the CSCW community can learn from CSCW in LA and how LA researchers can be better represented in and integrated into international CSCW. The goal of this workshop is twofold. First, to provide a forum for researchers working in LA to present their work for the international CSCW community, and second, to allow the international CSCW community to understand the issues around doing CSCW research in LA. Senior discussants will be invited to discuss the work of LA researchers and introduce key issues from their regions, therefore facilitating the cross-region conversations among participants.

Workshop website: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=5712


W8. Feminism and Feminist Approaches in Social Computing

Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Contact: Stephanie Steinhardt, Department of Communication, Cornell University
Amanda Menking, The Information School, University of Washington
Andrea Marshall, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University
Asta Zelenkauskaite, Department of Communication, Drexel University
Ingrid Erickson, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University
Jennifer Rode, Drexel College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University

Abstract:

Building on last year’s successful CSCW 2014 workshop on Feminism and Social Media, we propose a follow-on workshop to bring together a set of CSCW scholars around the theme of feminist perspectives in social computing and technology. We will explore theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic and, draw on literature and empirical studies to build a set of generative and creative dialogues around the topics of diversity, sexual orientation, cultural attitudes, sociopolitical affiliations, and other emergent themes. Conversations will be particularly directed toward the challenges of using a feminist approach in CSCW scholarship, identifying both productive and problematic research practices. We expect this session to open new feminist dialogues about current issues in CSCW from sexuality and identity on social media, labor and technology development, and gender inequality within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math + Arts and Design (STEAM) collaborative efforts, and other emergent areas of interest.

Workshop website: http://stephaniesteinhardt.com/feministcscw


W9. Collaboration and Social Computing in Emerging Financial Services

Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Contact: David Millen, IBM Research
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research
Silvia Cristina Sardela Bianchi, IBM Research
Jofish Kaye, Yahoo Labs
John Vines, Newcastle University

Abstract:

In this workshop we consider new financial services from a CSCW and Social Computing perspective. In particular, we will bring together researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who are interested in new financial services such as mobile payments, digital money, microfinance, mobile commerce, and are interested in the adoption and use of these new services by special sub-populations. Also of interest in this workshop will be the use of social analytics to understand financial markets and create new services. We also hope to explore the underlying group and network mechanisms that promote trust and enable commerce (e.g., solidarity lending groups).

Workshop website: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=5703


W10. Connecting Collaborative & Crowd Work with Online Education

Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Contact: Joseph Jay Williams, HarvardX
Markus Krause, Leibniz University
Praveen Paritosh, Google
Jacob Whitehill, HarvardX
Justin Reich,HarvardX
Juho Kim, MIT
Piotr Mitros, edX
Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Abstract:

Human behavior increasingly involves digital online software, where the activities and resources that support (1) learning, (2) work, and (3) collaboration overlap and are placed in far greater proximity than the physical world – often just a tab or window away. What scientific and practical gains in 21st century learning, work, and collaboration can be achieved by integrating and contrasting these three areas’ relevant technologies, scientific communities, and industry practitioners?

For example: How can software for collaborative work incorporate learning? Which methods are effective for coordinating diverse experts to iteratively improve online educational resources? How can online learning improve the skill set and labor force for crowd work? The workshop tackles such questions by bringing together participants from industry (e.g., platforms similar to Odesk, MechanicalTurk); education, psychology, & MOOCs (e.g., attendees of AERA, EDM, AIED, Learning at Scale); crowdsourcing and collaborative work (e.g. attendees of CHI, CSCW, AAAI’s HCOMP).

Workshop website: http://tiny.cc/crowdworklearning


W11. Supporting “Local Remote” Collaboration: Applying and Adapting Remote Group Awareness Techniques to Adapting Remote Group Awareness Techniques to Co-located Settings

Sunday March 15

Organizers:

Contact: Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo
T.C. Nicholas Graham, Queen's University
James R. Wallace, University of Waterloo
Mark Hancock, University of Waterloo
Miguel Nacenta, University of St. Andrews

Abstract:

Co-located environments are often seen as ideal group work settings since they provide a rich communication environment (e.g. delay-free voice communication, face-to-face interaction, eye gaze, and non-verbal communication) that promotes awareness and coordination. However, multi-device ecologies, in which co-located collaborators utilize multiple personal devices (e.g., laptops, tablets) or personal devices in conjunction with large shared displays, such as digital walls or tabletops, can interfere with common face-to-face communication and collaboration strategies. These contexts shift group members’ focus, at least some of the time, toward their personal devices and away from their collaborators or any shared artifacts. Group communication and coordination can easily breakdown in these scenarios due to the lack of shared group focus. This workshop will explore design techniques to address this issue, and improve group awareness in these co-located multi-device ecologies. This will be accomplished through group presentations, brainstorming sessions, and small-group breakout sessions.

Workshop website: http://localremote.wordpress.com/


 

Workshops Co-Chairs

Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
Jenn Thom, Amazon
workshops2015@cscw.acm.org