CSCW 98 Workshop
Designing Virtual Communities for Work
Saturday, November 14, 1998
Call for participation
Intended Audience
This full-day workshop will take place during the CSCW 98 conference
(http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw98/) and is intended for designers,
researchers, and practitioners from academia and industry who have
interest or experience in developing virtual business communities.
Abstract
While the popularity of networked virtual communities has been growing, their
use has remained primarily social. Given the necessity of communication and
collaboration among distributed workers, it seems natural to consider how
these spaces might be used to support work and the surrounding social
interactions. This workshop will focus on understanding how organizations
are currently using virtual
communities, and how they could be enhanced to better support the needs of
collaborative workers. By "virtual communities" we are thinking primarily of
MUDs, MOOs, and other collaboration software involving some text, graphics,
and/or other media. We will explore together how we can take advantage of
the inherently engaging attributes of virtual communities to accomplish
work, preserve
organizational memory, promote corporate culture, and encourage professional
networking. We will identify issues that are common to the various groups
exploring work-based virtual communities and share the design approaches
that are being tried to address them. Participants will be selected on the
basis of a 3-4 page position paper.
For further information see:
http://www.fxpal.com/CSCW98virtual/
Critical Dates
Deadline for submission: September 1, 1998
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 1998
Contact Information
Please send submissions (electronic ASCII submissions strongly preferred)
and inquiries to:
Organizers
Lori Toomey, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
John C. Tang, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Gloria Mark, German National Research Center for Information Technology
Lia Adams, Lia Adams Consulting