Remix rooms @ CSCW 2008
Remix rooms: Redefining the smart conference room

November 9, 2008

Portofino room
Hilton San Diego Resort
San Diego, CA

Important dates

Submission: September 29
Acceptance notification: September 30
Workshop: November 9
 

Contact

Maribeth Back
back@fxpal.com
 

Organizers

Maribeth Back
Scott Carter
FXPAL (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
Palo Alto, CA USA

Saadi Lahlou
EDF R&D and CNRS-EHESS
Paris, France

Kazunori Horikiri
Masatomi Inagaki
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan

Gerald Morrison
SMART Technologies
Canada

Position papers

Synthesizing probabilistic models for team-assistance in smart meetings rooms
Christoph Burghardt
Thomas Kirste

A Cooperative Media Space to Remix and Separate Rooms
Tom Gross

Supporting distributed meetings through ‘lightweight’ virtual world applications
N. Sadat Shami

Illuminac: Simultaneous Naming and Configuration for Workspace Lighting Control
Ana Ramírez Chang

Throwing Voices: The Psychological Impact of the Spatial Location of Projected Voices
Leila Takayama

Supporting Meetings for Highly Dispersed Workforces
David T. Nguyen


 

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30Intro
9:30 - 10:30Presentations I
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30Presentations II
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:00Presentations III
3:00 - 3:30Presentation by Saadi Lahlou
3:30 - 4:00Discussion/brainstorm
4:00 - 4:30Coffee break
4:30 - 5:30Discussion/brainstorm
5:30 - 6:00Planning

Overview

In this workshop we will explore how the experience of smart conference rooms can be broadened to include different contexts and media such as context-aware mobile systems, personal and professional videoconferencing, virtual worlds, and social software. How should the technologies behind conference room systems reflect the rapidly changing expectations around personal devices and social online spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life? What kinds of systems are needed to support meetings in technologically complex environments? How can a mashup of conference room spaces and technologies account for differing social and cultural practices around meetings? What requirements are imposed by security and privacy issues in public and semi-public spaces?

To participate, send position papers (PDFs) in 2-column ACM SIGCHI format to Maribeth Back (back@fxpal.com). We prefer 2 pages, but will accept papers up to 6 pages in length (see the CSCW workshop web site for formatting instructions). The paper deadline is September 19. Note that papers will be published in the adjunct proceedings.

Read the full proposal
 

Selecting participants

Selection of workshop participants and presentations will be based on refereed submissions. Authors are invited to submit a 1-2 page position statement describing their interest, experience or ongoing research in the field, and including a brief biography. Position statements should have only one author, and admission to the workshop will be for that person only. Position statements should be sent directly to back@fxpal.com and will be published on the website. We would like to cap the workshop at about 20 participants (including organizers). The depth of response to previous related workshops reveals considerable continued interest in the topic, and we believe that entry will be competitive.