CSCW 2017 PROPOSED WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
| Saturday 25th Feb 2017 | Sunday 26th Feb 2017 | ||
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| 15th International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems
Michael S. MacFadden, Solute Inc. |
The Science of Citizen Science: Theories, Methodologies and Platforms
Edith Law, University of Waterloo |
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| Crowdsourcing Law and Policy: A Design-Thinking Approach to Crowd-Civic Systems
Brian McInnis, Cornell University |
Robots in Groups and Teams
Malte F. Jung, Cornell University |
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| Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design
Anna Filippova, Carnegie Mellon University |
Reflection on Design Methods for Underserved Communities
Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan |
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| Theory Transfers? Social Theory and CSCW research
Susann Wagenknecht, University of Siegen |
E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Matthias Korn, University of Siegen |
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| In Whose Best Interest? Exploring the Real, Potential, and Imagined Ethical Concerns in Privacy-Focused Agendas
Pamela Wisniewski, University of Central Florida |
Advancing the Open Collaboration Data Exchange (OCDX): Building a Social Computing Infrastructure
Sean Goggins, University of Missouri |
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| CSCW in China and Beyond
Ning Gu, Fudan University, China |
Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments: A CSCW Research-athon
Eric Gilbert, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| Imagining Intersectional Futures: Feminist approaches in CSCW
Sarah Fox, University of Washington |
Talking with Conversational Agents in Collaborative Action
Martin Porcheron, University of Nottingham, UK |
CSCW 2017 WORKSHOP PROGRAM
The Science of Citizen Science: Theories, Methodologies and Platforms
Edith Law, University of Waterloo
Alex Williams, University of Waterloo
Jennifer Shirk, Cornell University
Andrea Wiggins, U. of Maryland College Park
Jonathan Brier, U. of Maryland College Park
Jenny Preece, U. of Maryland College Park
Greg Newman, Colorado State University
Citizen science is a form of collaboration that engages non-professionals as contributors to scientific research, typically through the processes of gathering, transforming or analyzing data. To date, research has documented examples of hugely successful citizen science projects, such as Zooniverse and eBird, but citizen science also includes hundreds of smaller citizen science and functionally similar digital humanities projects, operating from small-scale web platforms and in-person collaboration teams. Yet, it is unclear what the “science" of citizen science entails: What are the core research questions and methodologies for answering them? What theories and concepts have been associated with citizen science research to date? What are the technology needs for supporting successful research collaboration among diverse stakeholders and across distinctive types of citizen science projects? In this workshop, our goals are to (i) bring together researchers studying citizen science to form a coherent map summarizing the theories, methodologies, and platforms that currently defines citizen science research, with a special focus on CHI and CSCW relevant topics; (ii) brainstorm a list of fundamental open questions and ways to tackle them; and (iii) form a multidisciplinary community to build synergies for further collaboration.
Link: https://www.crowdcurio.com/research/workshops/cscw2017/
The Fifteenth International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems
Michael S. MacFadden, Solute Inc.
Agustina Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ning Gu, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Chengzheng Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Not long ago, real-time collaborative editing (CE) systems were seen as a novelty to the average user, and a niche area of computer science research. Today, nothing could be further from the truth. Users are increasingly more connected and are creating more and more content online, on mobile devices, and in cloud based applications. Users are increasingly expecting collaborative editing functionalities in all of their applications.
The focus of this year’s workshop is: 1) to explore recent advances in the technologies that enable collaborative editing systems, 2) to evaluate the adoption of these technologies by commercial industry and the open source communities, and 3) to foster an exchange of ideas between CE researchers and end-user CE systems builders. The goal is to increase the adoption of recent technological advancements in CE research by practitioners and to have practitioners identify real-world challenges for future research.
Link: http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/sigce/iwces15/
Theory transfers? Social theory & CSCW research
Susann Wagenknecht, University of Siegen
Ingrid Erickson, Syracuse University
Carsten Østerlund, Syracuse University
Melissa Mazmanian, UC Irvine
Pernille Bjørn, University of Copenhagen
Finding time to present and discuss theories at CSCW events has proven a perpetual challenge. This workshop takes up this cause by facilitating an open-ended discussion about how diverse strands of social theory not only align with but support innovative CSCW research. The workshop will focus on three guiding questions: How, when, and to what end can social theory benefit CSCW research? What recent developments in social theory could be especially impactful for CSCW research today? What can CSCW research contribute to social theory?
With an aim to building a new community of practice, the workshop will provide an open forum for scholars and practitioners to probing the merits and limitations of social theory for CSCW research. We welcome participants with diverse theoretical interests, ranging from organizational theory to intersectionality, social materiality to pragmatism, practice theory, and beyond.
Link: https://theorycscw.wordpress.com
E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Matthias Korn, University of Siegen
Marén Schorch, University of Siegen
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen
Matthew Bietz, University of California, Irvine
Carsten Østerlund, Syracuse University
Rob Procter, University of Warwick
David Ribes, University of Washington
Robin Williams, The University of Edinburgh
Collaborative research practices are a highly interesting domain for CSCW. So far, CSCW has mainly focused on computation- and/or data-intensive research endeavors. Here, resources are typically pooled via common e-infrastructures for data access and processing, a set-up requiring additional layers of coordination. Such a focus largely foregrounds the sciences and other fields that rely on highly structured (or structure-able) data and the routinized processes of analysis.
In contrast, in this one-day workshop we discuss the conditions and challenges characteristic of research collaboration in the qualitative social sciences and humanities (SSH). In particular, we examine the sociotechnical infrastructures that enable and support research practices that – in comparison with the collaborative paradigm of the natural sciences – end to be less structured, compartmentalized, and routinized, but more fluid, flexible, and open-ended. The workshop seeks to collect empirical insights and design experiences, preparing the grounds for a comprehensive understanding of the role of e-infrastructures for collaborative research practices in SSH.
We particularly invite submissions that draw out the core characteristics, challenges, and trends faced by groups of researchers in the SSH from experiential, theoretical, empirical or design perspectives.
Link: http://eResearchInfSSH2017.wordpress.com/
Crowdsourcing Law and Policy: A Design-Thinking Approach to Crowd-Civic Systems
Brian McInnis, Cornell University
Marta Poblet, RMIT University
Alissa Centivany, University of Western Ontario
Karen Levy, Cornell University
Juho Kim, KAIST
Gilly Leshed, Cornell University
Crowdsourcing technologies, strategies and methods offer new opportunities for bridging existing gaps among law, policymaking, and the lived experience of citizens. In recent years, a number of initiatives across the world have applied crowdsourcing to contexts including constitutional reform, drafting federal bills, and generating local policies. However, crowd-civic systems also come with challenges and risks such as socio-technical barriers, marginalization of specific groups, silencing of interests, etc. Using a design-thinking approach, this workshop will address both opportunities and challenges of crowd-civic systems to develop best practices for increasing public engagement with law and policy. The workshop organizers will suggest an initial framework explicitly intended to be criticized by participants and reconfigured through a series of iterative cooperative small-group activities focusing on diagnosing the failures of past crowd-civic system efforts and the successes of online action around social issues. While the ultimate objective of the workshop is to develop a best practices guide, we see iterations on the guide as a mechanism for fostering community and collaboration among policymakers, technologists, and researchers around crowd-civic systems for law and policy.
Link: https://crowdcivicsystems.github.io/
Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design
Anna Filippova, Carnegie Mellon University
James D. Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University
Arun Kalyanasundaram, Carnegie Mellon University
Erik Trainer, Carnegie Mellon University
Brad Chapman, Harvard University
Aurelia Moser, Mozilla Foundation
R. Stuart Geiger, University of California, Berkeley
Arlin Stoltzfus, University of Maryland
Time-bounded collaborative events in which teams work together under intense time pressure are becoming increasingly popular. In 2015, collegiate hackathons alone attracted over 54,000 participants across 150 events. While "hackathons", that is, competitive overnight coding events, are one of the more prevalent examples of this phenomenon, there are many more distinct event design variations for different audiences and with divergent aims. Examples include "sprints" that bring together existing communities to advance planned work, "code fests" that connect related communities to encourage interoperability, "hack-days" and "hack-weeks" that aim to teach hacking and making skills to diverse audiences without development backgrounds, like artists and scientists, and many more. Taken together, these events offer new opportunities and challenges for cooperative work by affording explicit, predictable, time-bounded spaces for interdependent work and access to new audiences of collaborators. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in the phenomenon, experienced event organizers, and participants interested in running their own events to consolidate existing research, share practical experiences, and understand what benefits different event variations may offer, how they may be applied in other contexts, and how insights from studying these events may contribute to CSCW knowledge.
Link: https://hackathon-workshop.github.io/
Robots in Groups and Teams
Malte F. Jung, Cornell University
Selma Sabanovic, Indiana University
Friederike Eyssel, Bielefeld University
Marlena Fraune, Indiana University
Over the last decade the idea that robots could become an integral part of groups and teams has developed from a promising vision into a reality. Robots are increasingly part of groups and teams, yet most human-robot interaction research still focuses on a single human interacting with a single robot. The goal for the workshop is therefore to advance research in computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human robot interaction (HRI) by raising awareness for the social and technical challenges that surround the placement of robots within work-groups and teams. The workshop will be organized around three central questions: (1) How do robots shape the dynamics of groups and teams in existing settings? (2) How does a robot’s behavior shape how humans interact with each other in dyads and in larger groups and teams? (3) How can robots improve the performance of work groups and teams by acting on social processes? Through presentations centered around these core questions we expect in depth discussions around each question and, ultimately, to improve the quality of and support the growth of research in the CSCW community that focuses on the intersection of robots and groups and teams.
Link: http://hri.cornell.edu/robots-in-groups/
In Whose Best Interest? Exploring the Real, Potential, and Imagined Ethical Concerns in Privacy-Focused Agendas
Pamela Wisniewski, University of Central Florida
Jessica Vitak, University of Maryland
Xinru Page, Bentley University
Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University
Yang Wang, Syracuse University
Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder
Through a series of ACM SIGCHI workshops, we have built a research community of individuals dedicated to networked privacy—from identifying the key challenges to designing privacy solutions and setting a privacy-focused agenda for the future. In this workshop, we take an intentional pause to unpack the potential ethical questions and concerns this agenda might raise. Rather than strictly focusing on privacy as a state that is always desired—where more privacy is viewed unequivocally as “better”—we consider situations where privacy may not be optimal for researchers, end users, or society. We discuss the current research landscape, including the recent updates to ACM’s Code of Ethics, and how researchers and designers can make more informed decisions regarding ethics, privacy, and other competing values in privacy-related research and designs. Our workshop includes group discussions, breakout activities, and a panel of experts with diverse insights discussing topics related to privacy and ethics.
Link: https://networkedprivacy2017.wordpress.com/
Advancing theOCDX: Building a Social Computing Infrastructure
Sean Goggins, University of Missouri
Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska-Omaha
A.J. Million, University of Missouri
Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
Libby Hemphill, Illinois Institute of Technology
Open online communities (OOC) have emerged as significant drivers of innovation, economic activity, and social well-being. Scholars and practitioners from different disciplines engage in OOC research to build disciplinary understanding that in turn helps citizens successfully manage and grow OOCs. Research contexts are identical, but differences in data and method frequently prevent the development of coherent understandings across disciplines.
To forge coherent understandings across disciplines that study OOCs, the Open Collaboration Data Factory (OCDF) (www.ocdx.io) is a community of scholars, which address shared research issues. This day-long workshop is associated with the OCDF and is focused on building technical, social, and methodological infrastructure for sharing: 1) data connected to social computing papers, 2) methods and software built to analyze that data, and 3) a common set of ethical practices built to address issues in social computing research.
At CSCW in 2016, OCDF stakeholders piloted a “Wizard of Oz” data interchange manifest file, which has been developed into the Open Collaboration Data eXchange (OCDX). To further prototype the OCDX, this workshop will help engage the CSCW community to: 1) Scale OCDX tooling to improve the production and discovery of data, and 2) advance ongoing design and development efforts (which will include a user-need component of the workshop).
Link: http://www.ocdx.io/?page_id=847
CSCW in China and Beyond
Ning Gu, Fudan University, China
Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Fudan University, China
Tun Lu, Fudan University, China
Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Recent years, we’ve observed a fast expansion of CSCW researchers in China. This is due to the development of the mobile Internet, social network services and other collaborative services in China, as well as the rise of the CSCW conference in the official conference and journal rankings of China Computer Federation (CCF). In industry, companies in China like Tencent and Sina have their own productions related to social and collaborative systems. For example, Sina has Weibo while Tencent has Wechat. Both of them primarily focus on communicative, cooperative and social behavior. In academia, the CSCW community in China is developing rapidly. In 1998, the first Chinese Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CCSCW) was successfully held in Tsinghua University, and CCF Technical Committee on Collaborative Computing (CCF TCCC) was also established in the meantime, with about 115 members today. The goal of this workshop is to serve as a catalyst to the communication between CSCW researchers from China and CSCW researchers abroad. Since CSCW is a cross-disciplinary field, we also need the ideas and theories from other disciplines, which can be inspiring and can be important for the further development of the CSCW community in China.
Link: http://cscw.fudan.edu.cn/workshop2017/home.html
Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments: A CSCW Research-athon
Eric Gilbert, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
Alex Leavitt, University of Southern California; Facebook
Katherine Lo, University of California Irvine
Lana Yarosh, University of Minnesota
Many social media platforms provide features for commenting, which often provide affordances for people to give feedback to others. Around the theme of advancing research about online comments, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse range of researchers for cross-discipline community building and productive mixed-methods research. The workshop is structured around a research “hackathon,” where participants actively work on producing initial stages of research, theory, and design related to a central dataset (in the case of this workshop, public comments from a historical reddit.com corpus). Participants will form collaborative teams to tackle questions of interest that move forward current thinking around online comment behaviors, participants, quality, and design. The one-day workshop is led by 5 researchers, and it will accommodate up to 32 participants.
Organizing committee
Eric Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His research is in social computing broadly, and he has a new grant from the NSF on moderating online comments with machine learning.
Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on sociotechnical features of social computing systems that lead to prosocial outcomes. His research covers social media, civic participation, and commenting systems among other topics.
Alex Leavitt got his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, where he studied social media interactions and collaboration, focusing his dissertation on breaking news commenting on reddit. He currently is a Quantitative UX Researcher at Facebook.
Katherine Lo is a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on how moderators develop practices to maintain healthy and safe communities in online platforms, in particular she examines the practices employed by moderators and users in vulnerable communities.
Svetlana Yarosh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the positive benefits of comments in online health communities (particularly those focused on recovery from substance use disorders), such as increased social connectedness and exchange of reciprocal social support.
Link: http://comp.social.gatech.edu/comments-cscw2017/
Reflections on Design Methods for Underserved Communities
Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan
Aarti Israni, DePaul University
Sheena Erete, DePaul University
Denise Nacu, DePaul University
Roxana Galusca, Sassafras Tech Collective
Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University
The goal of this workshop is to facilitate a discussion around the ways in which research and design methods can be better tailored to support and engage underserved communities. We aim to create a publicly accessible repository of tools to support research and design efforts with underserved communities and to facilitate critical conversations about appropriate methods and solutions in this space. At the workshop, participants will collaborate with one another to explore their own as well as past, present, and future research and design initiatives with underserved communities; discuss challenges and lessons learned from using methods to facilitate technological development and creation among such populations; and brainstorm methods and solutions to address these challenges. Discussion and ideas generated from this workshop will be archived online and made available to the larger research community.
Link: https://cscw2017designforunderserved.wordpress.com/
Imagining Intersectional Futures: Feminist approaches in CSCW
Sarah Fox, University of Washington
Amanda Menking, University of Washington
Stephanie Steinhardt, Cornell University
Anna Lauren Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley
Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University
The aim of this one-day workshop is to explore theoretical and methodological approaches that help us consider issues of gender, sexual orientation, and power in the design of socio-technical systems. This program builds on two previous workshops on the topic of feminism and CSCW. With this instantiation, we are motivated by an explicit commitment to intersectionality—a recognition that the effects of various oppressions cannot be understood independently. Considerable time will be devoted to discussing work in post-colonial feminism, queer theory, Women of Color feminism, and feminist critical disability studies. Through generative conversation with participants, feedback on works-in-progress, and the initiation of outlets for new feminist CSCW work, we aim to 1) build on existing research and practice and 2) identify concerns and approaches for both designing and assessing research oriented toward intersectional and feminist futures in the context of CSCW and social computing.
Link: http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/intersectionalfutures/
Talking with Conversational Agents in Collaborative Action
Martin Porcheron, University of Nottingham, UK
Joel E. Fischer, University of Nottingham, UK
Moira McGregor, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Barry Brown, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh, UK
Heloisa Candello, IBM Research Lab, Brazil
Kenton O’Hara, Microsoft Research, UK
This one-day workshop intends to bring together both academics and industry practitioners to explore collaborative challenges in speech interaction. Recent improvements in speech recognition and computing power has led to conversational interfaces being introduced to many of the devices we use every day, such as smartphones, watches, and even televisions. These interfaces allow users to get things done, often by just speaking commands, relying on a reasonably well understood single-user model. While research on speech recognition is well established, the social implications of these interfaces remain underexplored, such as how we socialise, work, and play around such technologies, and how these might be better designed to support collaborative collocated talk-in-action. Moreover, the advent of new products such as the Amazon Echo, which are positioned as supporting multi-user interaction in collocated environments such as the home, makes exploring the social and collaborative challenges around these products, a timely topic. In the workshop, we will review current practices and reflect upon prior work on studying talk-in-action and collocated interactions. We wish to begin a dialogue that takes on the renewed interest in research on spoken interaction with devices, grounded in the existing practices of the CSCW community.
Link: https://talkingwithagents.wordpress.com/