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Chair:
Michael Shepherd
Dalhousie
University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3HIW5
Tel: (902) 494-3686
Fax: (902) 492-1517
Email:
shepherd@cs.dal.ca
Minitracks
Digital Divide
(Karine
Barzilai-Nahon and Narcyz Roztocki)
Genres of Communication and Digital Documents
(Kevin
Crowston,
Tero Päivärinta, and Carina Ihlström Eriksson)
Information Retrieval
and Search Effectiveness: Exploring New Perspectives
(Carolyn
Watters and Ray R. Larson)
Knowledge Discovery
(Mark Elmore)
Persistent Conversation
9: Design and Analysis of CMC Systems
(Thomas Erickson
and Susan Herring)
Social Spaces: Production and
Consumption of Goods in Digital Collectives
(Fernanda Viégas and Karrie Karahalios)
The Minitrack calls for papers that study the digital divide in different levels, methods and perspectives. Possible investigations of the digital divide may focus on international, national, local, sector, communal, and individual level. Both empirical and theoretical papers are invited.
Potential contributions related to the digital divide may include, but are not limited to the following:
Ø Conceptualisation and theory of digital divide
Ø Digital divide versus digital spectrum
Ø Socio-demographic factors– gender, age, education, income, ethnic diversity, race diversity, language diversity, religiosity
Ø Social and governmental support – for example the use of supportive initiatives, policy and applications to bridge the gap, or how society and community impact eInclusion
Ø Access and technology – infrastructure factors
Ø Affordability
Ø Use – skills, frequency and time, locus, autonomy of use, what do users do online and for what purpose
Ø Accessibility focusing mainly in populations with special needs
Ø Measurements index – e-readiness, DiDix and more
Ø Comparative analysis of policy
Ø Comparative cross-country or cross-region research
Ø Country or region specific case studies
See
http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/events/dd.html for more
information.
Karine Barzilai-Nahon (primary contact)
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
The Information School
Mary Gates
Hall, Room 370B
Box 352840
Seattle WA 98195-2840
Tel: (206) 685-6668
Fax: (206) 616-3152
Email: karineb@u.washington.edu
Narcyz Roztocki
Associate Professor
School of Business
State University of New York at New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard
New Paltz NY 12561
Tel: (845) 257-2935
Fax: (845) 257-2947
Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu
Genres of Communication and Digital Documents
This Minitrack will elicit papers on the genre of organizational communication and digital documents. Document genres are communicative actions with a socially recognized communicative purpose and/or common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Such genres are situated in complex communicative practices; they are anchored in specific institutions and processes and can be equally applicable to physical as well as electronic documents. Recognizing the genre of a document is especially useful because it helps build an understanding among communicating parties.
The genre lens has even been suggested to provide a basis for critical debate and validation of new document and communication solutions. Topics will address the social and organizational aspects of genre and their interplay with genre forms as manifested in digital media. These include (but are not limited to):
Ø Genres in non-text and multi-media digital documents
Ø Analyses of genres emerging in novel digital media, e.g. the Web, mobile communication technologies, e-mail, instant messaging, multi-media communication environments…
Ø The emergence and evolution of genres of digital documents
Ø Issues related to transformation of genres from a medium to another
Ø Understanding of change and socio-organizational enactment processes of genres, genre systems, and genre repertoires
Ø Investigations of genre in use
Ø Analyses of particular document genres, e.g. email, spam, and deception
Ø Role of genre in development and design of information systems, knowledge management, and information management in the organizational and societal context
Ø Genre-specific automated classification/categorization/routing/filtering of text documents, including spam and deception detection
Ø Theoretical and methodological elaborations of genre theory for enhancing research and/or practice of utilizing digital media in the societal and organizational context
Kevin Crowston (primary contact)
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
348 Hinds Hall
Syracuse NY 13244–4100
Tel: (315) 443–1676
Email: crowston@syr.edu
Tero Päivärinta
Department of Information Systems
Agder University College
P.O. Box 422
N-4604 Kristiansand
NORWAY
Tel: +47 3814 1662
Email: tero.paivarinta@hia.no
Carina Ihlström Eriksson
School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering
Halmstad University
P.O. Box 823
S-301 18 Halmstad
SWEDEN
Tel: +46 35 167531
Email: carina.ihlstrom@ide.hh.se
Information Retrieval
and Search Effectiveness: Exploring New Perspectives
Information Retrieval: Information Retrieval supports the computerized search of large document and digital media collections (millions or billions of items) to select small subsets of those documents relevant to a user's information need. Such algorithms are the basis for internet search engines and question-answering systems. In this Minitrack we will examine both theoretical and application issues related but not limited to the following areas:
Ø Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools
Ø Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering
Ø Web-based Information Retrieval
Ø Topic Detection and Tracking over time
Ø Geographic Information Retrieval, gazeteers
Ø Information Visualization
Ø Text Categorization and Summarization
Ø Cross Language Retrieval
Ø Speech and Broadcast Retrieval
Ø Image and Video Retrieval
Search Effectiveness: User Perspective: While we have learned a great deal about creating large document spaces and accessing these spaces, we know relatively little about the users who deal with a multi-billion-page Web. Further research is needed to address the user issues related to effectiveness and quality of experience when interacting with Web search engines. While metrics and methodologies have been developed by the Information Retrieval to assess the effectiveness of large homogeneous retrieval systems, new measures are needed for Web users that are more user-centric. A focus on the user perspective allows us to align the user focus and the system focus in a multi-disciplinary forum that includes theoretical foundations, evaluation measures, methodologies, case studies and user study results.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Ø User-based Web search engines effectiveness measures including relevance, utility and usefulness
Ø Usability of Web search tools
Ø Evaluation of Web search tools in information seeking problems
Ø Role of genre in Web search
Ø Profiles and personalization to enhance Web search
Ø Effect of task on information seeking behavior on the Web
Ø Multimedia effectiveness measures
Ø Individual differences in Web search
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CANADA B3H 3W5
Tel: (902) 494-6723
Email: Carolyn.watters@dal.ca
Ray Larson
School of Information
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley CA 94720-4600
Tel: (510) 642-6046
Fax: (510) 642-5814
Email: ray@ischool.berkeley.edu
Knowledge discovery and data mining is the extraction of previously unknown information from all types of digital data in order to provide new understanding. The need for knowledge discovery is the result of the growing tsunami of digital data, in a variety of media, which obscures the knowledge represented within the data. This Minitrack will take a broad approach to the discovery of useful and appropriate knowledge from the breadth of digital media data.
Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining are solicited in (and across) topic areas including:
Ø Data selection, aggregation/fusion/federation, and pre and post processing
Ø Algorithms
Ø Architectures, high performance computing, scalability
Ø Dissemination, data collectives and data sharing
Ø Application areas and case studies
See
http://KnowledgeDiscoveryConfer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box
2008 MS6364
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6364
Tel: 865-241-6372 Office or 865-576-1758 Dept
Fax: 865-576-0003 Dptt
Email: ElmoreMT@ornl.gov
Persistent Conversation 9: Design and Analysis of CMC Systems
Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, text and voice chat,
email, blogs, web boards, MOOs, graphical and 3D virtual environments, gaming
systems, video sharing sites, document annotation systems, mobile phone texting,
etc. Such communication is persistent in that it leaves a digital trace, and the
trace in turn affords new uses. It permits conversations to be saved,
visualized, browsed, searched, replayed, and restructured. Persistence also
means that conversations need not be synchronous: they can be asynchronous
(stretching out over hours or days) or super synchronous
(with multiple parties 'talking' at the same time). Finally, the creation of
persistent and potentially permanent records from what was once an ephemeral
process raises a variety of social and ethical issues. This multi-disciplinary
Minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our
ability to understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation systems.
See
http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html for more information.
Tom
Erickson (primary contact)
Research Staff
Member
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
3136 Irving Ave. (Remote office)
Minneapolis MN 55408-2515
Tel: 612-823-3663 (normally); 914-784-6659 (Tu-Thu, every few weeks)
Fax: 612-823-1576
Email: snowfall@acm.org
Susan C. Herring
Professor of Information Science and Linguistics
School of Library and Information Science
10th St. and Jordan Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405
Tel: (812) 334-8883
Fax: (812) 855-6166
Email: herring@indiana.edu
Social Spaces: Production and Consumption of Goods in Digital Collectives
This Minitrack focuses on how people produce and consume goods in these new social spaces—both online and off. In particular, we are interested in work addressing the design, creation and use of information in many settings, particularly in ways that are newly emerging and especially innovative. We seek high quality papers across a broad spectrum of topics in this area. Qualitative studies, experiments, and system designs are all encouraged.
Specific topics include but are not restricted to:
Ø How does collective annotation change the ways information is found, shared, and used? Will socially annotated content pave the way to shared taxonomies?
Ø How do social hierarchies and formal processes develop in originally unstructured online spaces such as wikis?
Ø The design and uses of social visualizations in digital collectives; that is, visualizations of social data for social purposes
Ø How can collections of text, audio, or video be annotated and summarized?
Ø Multimedia document browsing, reading, interacting
Ø Digital collectives that allow users to engage in social analysis of data and sensemaking
Ø Mixes, mashups and re-edits of material are fascinating. How and why are people creating these new forms of content?
Ø Social ethnographies of collective spaces
Ø How do digital collectives in the workplace differ from their public counterparts?
Ø What are the privacy and accountability implications in these new social spaces?
Ø The evolution of memes: how do memes move within a social space or spread from one venue to another? How is this evolution different from what used to happen before the Internet? For instance, the Numa Numa dance video created by a teenager in his room went from a Web portal in 2004 to Disney’s Chicken Little animation movie in 2005.
Ø
What new types
of interaction are enabled by digitally augmenting physical space?
See
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/hicss_08 for more information.
Fernanda B. Viégas (primary contact)
IBM Research
1 Rogers St.
Cambridge MA 02142
Tel: (617) 693-5412
Email: viegasf@us.ibm.com
Karrie Karahalios
University of Illinois
Siebel Center for Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Ave. Ste 3110
Urbana IL 61801
Tel: (217) 265-6841
Email: kkarahal@cs.uiuc.edu
