Academic Productivity

Call for participation for a workshop at CSCW 2010
[submission deadline: November 20, 2009]

The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative technologies. A new generation of scientists, working in large-scale collaborations, is repurposing social software for use in collaborative science. Existing social tools such as chat, IM, and FriendFind are being adopted and modified for use as group problem-solving facilities. At the same time, exponentially greater and more complex datasets are being generated at a rate that is challenging the limits of current hardware, software, and human cognitive capability. A concerted effort to create software that will support new scientific practices and handle this data tsunami is redefining the collaboratory and represents a new frontier for computer supported cooperative work.

This follow-on event to a similarly themed workshop at CHI 2009 is intended to foster community among researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines interested in the changing dynamics of scientific collaborations.

We encourage papers on the following topics, especially those with a focus on changing practices in these areas:

• Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering,
  analysis, sharing, and visualization
• Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization
• Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations
• Social networks of scientists
• Repurposing social software for science
• Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software
• Distributed data gathering and analysis
• Time-critical scientific applications
• Studies of generational differences in how science is done
• Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to
  a non-scientific field

For more information, please see the workshop web site:
http://www.sci.utah.edu/cscw2010/

Organizers:

• Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab,
• Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University,
• Charlotte Lee, University of Washington,
• Claudio Silva, University of Utah,

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