Call For Papers (CFP) - Special Issue of JCSCW on

Context-Aware Computing in CSCW

co-edited by Albrecht Schmidt, Tom Gross, and Mark Billinghurst
 

Context-aware computing has been at the centre of different research efforts in the last decade. Acquiring, using, and sharing context electronically creates a new potential for the way people work together. Adding real world context to computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) will enable a new quality of cooperation. Applications in CSCW have been extended beyond the desktop to different work settings and into the domain of mobile devices. Context and context-awareness becomes a central issue in the design and realization of many systems and a crucial factor for their success.

The understanding of context in CSCW goes beyond the traditional view of context-aware systems as discussed in HCI and mobile computing. Sharing information about documents, activities, artefacts in use, group processes, and real world events is central to maximize mutual awareness in group work.
This special issue on ãContext-Aware Computing in CSCWä seeks to present a collection of original and high quality research in this area addressing these challenges and reporting on findings and solutions.

This special issue will appear in an upcoming issue (2004) of "Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) - The Journal of Collaborative Computing - JCSCW" (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0925-9724) a well known scientific journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (http://www.wkap.nl/)
 

• Sharing Context in formal and informal remote meetings
• Context-Awareness as enabling technology for CSCW
• CSCW applications that use real world context
• Handheld, mobile, and wearable CSCW
• Implicit and explicit use of context in CSCW
• Situated and location specific CSCW
   

• 15th of February 2004: Deadline for submission of manuscripts
• 28th of April 2004: Notification of acceptance
• 23th of Mai 2004: Submission of camera ready papers
• Publication in 2004
   

We seek high quality and original submission on the topic of Context-Aware Computing in CSCW. Submission of manuscript (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250 words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however you are invite to follow the layout guidlines given on the publishers web page (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0925-9724). The manuscript (in PDF, PS or MS-Word) should be sent by email to the guest editors.
 

Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 independent experts in the field. Reviewers will be members of the JCSCW advisory board and further researchers in the area of the special issue.
 

• Albrecht Schmidt, Media Informatics Group, University of Munich, Germany
  albrecht.schmidt@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
• Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
  
• Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  mark.billinghurst@hitlabnz.org
   

Albrecht Schmidt
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albrecht.schmidt@informatik.uni-muenchen.de