November 8-12, 2008 Hilton San Diego Resort San Diego, California, USA

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The 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported

Cooperative Work

Attend CSCW 2008 for an intellectually stimulating and diverse technical program!

Plenary Speakers The CSCW 2008 Opening and Closing Keynote speakers cover the spectrum of interests across the CSCW community from the technical and design challenges of creating collaboration systems to the intricacies of their impact on people and practices. The opening Keynote will be by Cory Ondrejka, co-founder of Second Life, and the Closing Keynote will be given by Sara Diamond, president of the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Paper Sessions The paper sessions will cover emerging areas of collaboration and collaborative systems such as Wikis & Wikipedia, Naughty & Nice issues in Social Networking Systems, Health Informatics, Deployments at Home, and Disrupted Environments. The paper sessions will also include traditional CSCW topics such as Distributed Teams, Media Spaces, Community, Interpersonal Relations in the Group, Work Places and Work Practices.

Workshops

Please consider participating in a CSCW 2008 Workshop! There are more than 10 workshops scheduled during the weekend prior to the main technical program. Some of the scheduled workshops include:

• Social Networking in Organizations

• The Future of Mobile Social Software

• Virtual Radical Collocation

• Remix rooms: Mashing up media for meetings CSCW and Human

Factors – Where are we now and what are the challenges?

• Changing work, Changing technology (IFIP 9. 1 WG)

Key Registration Dates

Aug 15, 2008 - Registration Opens | Sept 30, 2008 - Early Registration Deadline | Oct 3, 2008 - Hotel Room Reservation Deadline

CSCW 2008 also contains Panels, Demonstrations and Interactive Poster sessions that provide opportunities to engage in lively discussions with leaders in this field of increasing importance to our global future.

Questions and requests for information should be sent to publicity@cscw2008.org, or visit our website: www.cscw2008.org

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