[Air-l] Call for Work-in-Progress- OzCHI Virtual Communities Workshop

[Alastair Weakley]

Virtual Communities OzCHI 2006 Workshop
Approaches to the Design of Social Software for Dis-Organisations : A  
One-Day Workshop in Association with OZCHI 2006 http://www.ozchi.org/
CALL FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF WORK-IN-PROGRESS

This workshop will address the collaborative needs of organisations  
that are distributed or otherwise informally structured. In  
particular we will explore approaches to the design of tools that  
support increased communication and social interaction within such  
groups. Traditionally, support systems have been introduced from the  
top downwards but there is increasing evidence to suggest that  
alternative approaches can be even more effective. The increasing use  
of bottom-up, emergent technologies such as wikis and weblogs, is a  
well-known phenomenon. This workshop seeks to address approaches for  
the design of such tools.

Further details are available here:
http://www.virtual-communities.net.au/ozchi06/

We invite one-page descriptions of work-in-progress relevant to this  
area. Authors of accepted descriptions will be given a chance to  
present their work at the workshop. The descriptions will appear in  
the proceedings.
Please submit your description of work-in-progress, which should  
follow the OzCHI format (see:  http://www.ozchi.org/media/ 
ozchipaper_template2006.doc ) by Friday 3rd November by email to  
ozchiworkshop at weakley.org.uk

In keeping with the workshop theme of bottom-up social software at  
work, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Design methods for social software
     * Evaluation of social software impact
     * Categorisation of social tools
     * Social Software at Work
     * Integrating social software and task oriented software
     * Issues around self-image as represented through social  
software usage


The Virtual Communities Project is funded by the Australasian CRC for  
Interaction Design http://www.interactiondesign.com.au . Virtual  
communities is researching how to improve work in distributed  
organisations, looking at how to help these organisations translate  
their ideas into actions. We develop models and business cases that  
describe key principles, success stories and how-tos.

Programme Committee:
Jeremy Yuille (RMIT), Ralf Muhlberger (University of Queensland),  
Fiona Peterson (RMIT), Laurene Vaughan (RMIT), Markus Rittenbruch  
(University of Queensland), Alastair Weakley (University of  
Technology, Sydney)


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Alastair Weakley
Senior Research Assistant
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
Creativity & Cognition Studios
Faculty of IT
University of Technology, Sydney
Australia