Connecting Families: New Technologies, Family Communication, and the
Impact on Domestic Space
Workshop at ACM GROUP 2010
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Workshop Page: http://carmster.com/connecting
Deadline: September 10, 2010
ORGANIZERS
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Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University
Tejinder Judge, Virginia Tech
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech
Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Xiang Cao, Microsoft Research Cambridge
ADVISORY PANEL
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David Kirk, University of Nottingham
Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Nokia Research
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been a longstanding focus of
study in the fields of HCI and CSCW dating back to the first
incarnations of the media space in the early 1980s. Since then, this
research sphere has explored many different forms of technology. The
early focus of this work was largely workplace-oriented where
researchers focused on improving and understanding workplace
communication practices. However, over the last decade, there has
been an increasing focus on studying computer-mediated communication
in the home.
Computing technologies are rapidly changing the way families can
communicate, coordinate, and connect with others through
readily-available (and often free) applications, such as Google Talk,
Skype, or iChat. The accessibility and proliferation of these
applications means that family members are increasingly faced with new
mechanisms to reach out and connect with their family and friends.
For this reason, technology is now rapidly reconfiguring the way we
think about and design for domestic spaces. As it does so,
researchers now must directly confront issues of family relations and
the subtle negotiations that are part of that realm. "Connection" can
be emotionally expressive or merely informational. Analytic frameworks
as well as technologies developed to support work may not be
appropriate for understanding this setting.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers,
designers, and practitioners who study family practices or domestic
technology design with a particular emphasis on mediating family
communication within the home and also between homes. Our focus is on
technologies that allow family members to directly connect with one
another either synchronously (e.g., video conferencing) or
asynchronously (e.g., instant messaging), as opposed to technologies
where one broadcasts or shares information with many (e.g., social
networking sites). Here research typically aims to support
communication between parents, children, grandparents, and close
friends. We want to build community around this topical area, explore
the themes of this research over the last decade, and discuss the
relevant research themes of the next decade. We also plan to use the
workshop as a starting point for pursuing options of
creating a book about the workshop theme.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- family coordination
- family communication
- video communication
- communication across time zones
- social relations in families
- analytic frameworks for ICT in the domestic realm
- domestic awareness appliances
- methods for studying domestic settings
CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
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Potential workshop participants should submit 2-4 page position papers
(SIGCHI format) that describe their area of research as it relates to
domestic computer-mediated communication along with the future
direction they see research in this space taking. We also ask that
authors include short biographies for each of the position paper's
authors. We expect that only one author for each paper will
participate in the workshop, though we may be able to accommodate a
small number of special requests.
Email submissions to carman_neustaedter@sfu.ca
Submission deadline: September 10, 2010
Notification of decision: October 7, 2010
This workshop is being held as part of the ACM Group 2010 Conference:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group10/
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