Dear All,
I believe this info can be of interest to some people on the list.
Please note the conference features an AT tutorial...
Best,
Victor
>From: Wendy A Kellogg <wkellogg@US.IBM.COM>
>Subject: CSCW 2000 Early Registration deadline extended until Friday,
> November 3, 2000
>To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@ACM.ORG
>Status: RO
>
>Dear CSCW community
>
>We need your help getting the word out about CSCW 2000! CSCW 2000 will be
>held December 2-6, 2000 in Philaldephia, PA at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza
>Hotel. Please encourage those within your organization and beyond to come
>to CSCW 2000 and participate in a leading forum for understanding and
>implementing collaborative work systems. We would also appreciate it if
>you would pass this on to local mailing lists.
>
>Details for conference and hotel registration can be found at
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>http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cscw2000/reg.html
>
>As a special Halloween offer, Steve Whittaker and I are extending the early
>registration deadline until MIDNIGHT on Friday, November 3 (local time of
>the registrant). Registrations that are faxed or postmarked by that time
>will have early registration rates honored.
>
>CSCW 2000 has a fantastic program lined up, including an opening plenary by
>Robert Putnam of Harvard University ("Bowling alone: The collapse and
>revival of American community") and a closing plenary by Warren Thornate,
>Carleton University ("Got a minute? How technology affects the economy of
>attention"). In addition, Ruzena Bajcsy, Assistant Director of the CISE
>(Computer and Information Science and Engineering) Directorate of the NSF
>will give a special invited talk on "IT2: An information technology
>initiative for the twenty-first century -- NSF plans for implementation."
>
>The entire program, including 36 highly rated papers, can be viewed at
>
>http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cscw2000/program.html
>
>
>A full program of tutorials is offered at CSCW 2000, including:
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> Saturday, December 2, evening: 6:00 to 9:30
> T1: A Grand Tour of CSCW Research
>
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> Sunday, December 3, full day: 9:00 to 6:00
> T2: A Technical Overview of CSCW
> T3: Activity Theory: Basic Concepts and Applications
> T4: The Theory and Practice of Fieldwork for System Development
> T5: Contextual Inquiry: Gathering Customer Data for System
> Development
> T6: Developing Web-based Collaborative Applications-Social and
> Technical Issues
> T7: Theoretical Foundations of Collaboration and Learning
> T8: An Overview of Distributed Teams, Organizational Coordination,
> and Virtual Communities
> T9: Distributed Cognition: Applying Theory to the Social, and the
> Cognitive in CSCW Design and Evaluations
> T10: Recommender Systems: Collaborating in Commerce and
> Communities
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> Sunday, December 3, morning: 9:00 to 12:30
> T11: Behavioral Evaluation of CSCW Systems
> T12: Community Knowledge
> T13: Distance Learning
> T14: Computer-Supported Community Work -- Fundamentals and
> Applications
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> Sunday, December 3, afternoon: 2:30 to 6:00
> T15: Social Science Findings for CSCW Designers
> T16: An Introduction to Collaboratory Construction
> T17: Computer-Supported Community Work -- Building a Research and
> Action Agenda
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>We look forward to seeing you there and hope you will be able to share in
>this unique experience!
>
>Wendy Kellogg and Steve Whittaker
>CSCW 2000 General Co-Chairs
>
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>Wendy A. Kellogg
>Manager, Social Computing
>IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
>P.O. Box 704
>Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA
>wkellogg@us.ibm.com
>01 914 784-7826
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