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Track: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Context-aware Computing and Collaboration


Context-aware computing refers to computing systems that adapt their behavior based on context information of the users, the environment and the system itself. Context-aware systems often have emerged from research settings to products and use practice. The systems support user interaction, coordination and collaboration in professional and domestic settings. Complementing research on the technological feasibility of
context-aware systems, questions regarding the manageability and transparency of context-based services from a user perspective come to the fore. In particular, ubiquitous computing applications help to bridge between virtual and real-world context dimensions (both, concerning virtual and real context sensors and virtual and real context factors). The
resulting systems often remain opaque to users, and their workings and reactions are difficult to interpret and use based on traditional computer usage experience.

This minitrack aims to contribute, on the one hand, to the collection of use-oriented problems in context-based collaboration. Furthermore, we aim to discuss resulting implications regarding the technical design of interfaces as well as software and hardware architectures. Special attention is given to context modeling and implementation of the various
collaborative scenarios as well as to the associated possibilities of manual (adaptability) or automatic (adaptivity) in-use-adjustment. A further special area of interest within a user-oriented perspective is the  understanding of problem dynamics in scenarios with multiple-context systems and technologies, and problem dynamics of emergence or evolution of context-based systems, particularly as they relate to collaboration.

We would like to invite contributions of researchers and practitioners on (but not limited to) the following questions:

  • What practical experiences - positive as well as negative -
    have been made with regard to the usage of context-aware
    computing and collaboration in real organizational settings?
    What experiences have been made with adaptation mechanisms
    (automatic as well as interactive) of such systems in these
    settings?

  • How can relations between context descriptions/models,
    context sensors and context-based services for context-aware
    collaboration be described in a way that they can be inform end
    users? What challenges have to be met with regard to
    visualization and manipulation interfaces?

  • What experiences have been collected with ontologies and
    folksonomies in use? When do we need standardized, defined
    ontologies, and when can we use folksonomies providing rich
    context descriptions? How do systems have to be designed to
    support the adaptation of context descriptions over their
    lifecycle?

  • What are suitable models for context management? How can
    context concepts be retrieved and represented?

  • How can context architectures be effectively designed for
    sustainable usages (context evolution, context adaptation,
    traceability for end-users) in collaborative settings?

  • What do appropriate architectures for the realization of
    context-adaptive collaboration systems that remain modifiable
    in-use look like? What services have to be provided by such a
    context-adaptive collaboration system? What interfaces are
    needed for a context-dependent adaptation of the system
    behavior?

We are looking for contributions on those topics in relation to research as well as practice. Thus, we welcome contributions that contain original ideas on context modeling, analysis, design and evaluation for collaboration processes and systems. There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist,
interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, or developmental in nature.

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but
are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially
welcome):

  • Context-based Information Retrieval

  • Location-based Services

  • Mixed-Media Environments

  • Tagging Systems, other Semantic Web Applications

  • Mobility Services

  • Knowledge Management and Knowledge Media Creation

  • Community Applications

  • Collaborative Virtual Environments

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a
possible Special Issue of the Journal on Personal and
Ubiquitous Computing and/ or a book publication.

If submitting an Abstract for guidance and indication of appropriate content, please do so by May 15 to Dr. Luktosch.

http://hicss43.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Stephan Lukosch (Primary Contact)
Delft University of Technology
Technology, Policy, and Management
Department of Systems Engineering
PO box 5015, 2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-15-2783403
Fax: +31-15-2783429
Email: s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl
Web: http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl

Anind K. Dey
Carnegie Mellon University
HCI Institute
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
Phone: 412-268-9378
Fax: 412-268-1266
Email: anind@cs.cmu.edu
Web: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anind/

Volkmar Pipek
University of Siegen
Institute for Information Systems
Hölderlinstr. 3
57068 Siegen
Germany
Phone: +49-271-740-4068
Fax: +49-271-740-3384
Email: volkmar.pipek@uni-siegen.de
Web: http://www.cscw.uni-siegen.de/