The 2016 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social
Computing will be held in San Francisco, California, USA from February 27 -
March 2, 2016. CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed
conference seeking the best research on all topics relevant to
collaborative and social computing.

http://cscw.acm.org/2016/temp/cscw2016preliminaryCFP.pdf

We invite authors to submit papers that inform the design or deployment of
collaborative or social systems; introduce novel systems, interaction
techniques, or algorithms; or study existing collaborative or social
practices. The scope of CSCW includes social computing and social media,
crowdsourcing, open collaboration, technologically-enabled or enhanced
communication, CSCL, MOOCs, and related educational technologies,
multi-user input technologies, collaboration, awareness, information
sharing, and coordination. This scope spans socio-technical domains of
work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, socializing, and
entertainment. The technical program seeks novel research results or new
ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities. We
welcome contributions across a variety of research techniques, approaches,
and domains, including:

·        Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs,
mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social
networking, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective
intelligence, virtual worlds or collaborative information seeking.

·        System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures,
interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that
enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.

·        Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory (e.g.
sociological theories, group coordination, etc.) with clear relevance to
the design or study of social and collaborative systems.

·        Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or studies
relating to technologies, practices, or use of communication,
collaboration, and social technologies.

·        Social and collaborative practices. Characterizing the nature of
collaboration and social interaction through studies of practice, including
both work practice and non-work collaborative and social practices.

·        Mining and modeling. Studies, analyses, algorithms, and
infrastructures for making use of large and small scale data.

·        Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of
approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use.

·        CSCW and social computing for underserved populations. Studies,
systems, design, and other research focused on social and collaborative
computing for the elderly, disabled, impoverished, or otherwise underserved
user communities.

·        Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including
applications to healthcare, transportation, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability,
education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains.

·        Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and
ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch
technologies, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition,
big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSes, or sensing systems.

·        Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations
that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages,
generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend
social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.

Important Dates

·        Friday May 22, 2015: Submissions DUE 16:59 PDT (23:59 UTC)

·        Friday July 3, 2015: Review Round 1 Results Announced

·        Wednesday July 29, 2015: Revised Submissions DUE 16:59 PDT (23:59
UTC)

·        Monday August 24, 2015: Final Paper Decision Announcements

·        Tuesday October 13th, 2015: Camera Ready Copy DUE 16:59 PDT
(23:59 UTC

Call for Abstracts for the conference: RC21. The Ideal City: between
myth and reality – Urbino (Italy) – 27-29 August 2015

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Smart participation: putting the social into urban innovation / STREAM
A – Cities and innovation

A Smart City can be considered as a specific form of ideal city that
emphasises the efficiency of infrastructures by using ICT: Many early
models equal a smart city with the systemic integration of ICT in e.g.
the energy or the mobility sectors – while not touching societal
aspects. With that approach, they backed Crouch’s (2003) thesis that
decisions on technical and technological development are (still) not
being taken with participation of the broad population. Recently, smart
city models consider the use of technologies not as an end in itself but
as a means to “fuel sustainable economic growth and a high quality of
life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory
governance” (Caragliu et al. 2009: 6).

In this session, participants gather to explore relations of
participation and smartness in cities – and to discuss interdependency,
as well as challenges for societies. Questions to be dealt with during
this proposed session are:

• Conceptual questions such as: /How and to what extent could any
  concept of participation be included in smart city concepts? /What
  is “Smart Participation”? This refers e.g. to different roles of
  individuals, stakeholder groups and society, different concepts of
  Smart Cities and Smartness, to general questions whether new forms
  and methods of participation evolve, or if participation in smart
  city development is democratic at all.
• Practical questions such as: /What are socio-cultural and political
  preconditions for smart(er) cities? What is a Smart Citizen in urban
  contexts? /This refers e.g. to how and to what extent people and
  groups already participate in developing smart infrastructures and
  services, to actual scopes of action, to interdependencies between
  technical developments, urban spaces and democratic institutions.

Case studies, comparative studies or reflection papers that address one
or several of the questions above are welcome. The session will be
organised as a round table session with ca. four presenting scholars (10
min each) while answering two to three questions relevant to all four
papers. Audience is invited to actively join in.

Organizer: Carolin Schröder (Center for Technology & Society,
Technische Universität Berlin, DE)

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 31 January 2015

Further informationon the submission process and the conference:
http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/

Thank you very much for reading/ forwarding this mail,
best, Carolin

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Dr. Carolin Schröder

Bereichsleiterin Partizipation/ Head of Participation Research Unit

Technische Universität Berlin/ Technical University Berlin

Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft/ Center for Technology and Society

HBS 1, Hardenbergstr. 16-18
10 623 Berlin

Tel: 030/314 23 793

Fax:030/314 26 917

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