CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop "Analysing the quality of collaboration in task-oriented computer-mediated interactions". 18th May 2010. Aix-en-Provence, France
(Organised within the COOP 2010, 9th International
Conference
on the Design of Cooperative Systems, www.coopsys.org)
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working across the
cognitive, social and computational sciences on understanding
collaborative activities. With the growing importance of technology
mediation for group work and learning, developing methods for
assessing the quality of collaboration is central to both CSCW and
CSCL research. Groupware aims to support collaborative activities that
are effective in terms of group efficiency, one aspect of which is the
quality of the process of collaboration itself. This workshop thus
aims to focus on understanding interrelations between group processes,
outcomes of group-work and technology affordances, by comparing
activity-based studies of the quality of collaboration in
task-oriented computer-mediated interactions. Broader aims are to
devise methods for training groups for more effective collaboration,
and to enable participants in group-work to become reflexively aware
of the nature of their participation. Aspects of this kind will
contribute to the elaboration of theories and models of collaboration,
as well as to methods for evaluating computer-supported
cooperative/collaborative work and learning.
Across all scientific disciplines concerned by these issues, we invite
participation and short papers on themes such as:
- models and
dimensions of collaboration; collaborative processes and outcomes;
- descriptive, normative, experiential approaches to collaboration;
- collaborative skills, development, learning, training;
- appropriation of collaborative technologies, technological
affordances for collaboration;
- quantitative and qualitative methods for evaluating collaboration
(coding, scoring, ...), collaborative effort and collaboration quality;
- analysis of quality of discourse, dialogue, conversation in
collaborative situations.
Papers will be reviewed by the four workshop organisers. Notification
of acceptance will be sent to authors on March 27th 2010.
Participants in workshops must be registered for the COOP workshop day
(see: http://www.coopsys.org/registration/).
The workshop will be of one full day's duration (on 18th May 2010,
09:00-18:00). The maximum number of participants will be limited to
20, so as to facilitate discussion.
Workshop pre-proceedings will be distributed before the workshop. The
organisers will coordinate a special issue of a journal on the basis
of extended and revised versions of selected articles, after the
workshop.
Organisers
Françoise Détienne (CNRS, Telecom ParisTech), Michael
Baker (CNRS, Telecom ParisTech), Jean-Marie Burkhardt (University
Paris Descartes), Hans Spada (Universität Freiburg).
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