[comp.groupware] Conference on Multi-user Interfaces and Applications

simon@cui.unige.ch (Simon Gibbs) (01/08/90)

		C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

	IFIP WG8.4 Conference on Multi-user Interfaces
		    and Applications


Date: September 24-26, 1990
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Organized by: IFIP Working Group 8.4,  in cooperation with:
ACM SIGOIS,  Technical Chamber of Greece,  Greek Computer Society


Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and other 
multi-user applications are broadly concerned with the 
combined use of communications and computer technology by 
a group of people. The Conference on Multi-User Interfaces 
and Applications will focus on user interface and 
architectural issues for CSCW and "groupware" systems. 
The conference welcomes papers describing the design, 
implementation and evaluation of systems that encourage 
collaboration or coordination among users. Descriptions are 
solicited of underlying technologies (e.g., shared window 
systems, wide-area file systems, multimedia networks), 
example applications (e.g., co-authoring systems, group 
decision support) and related research topics (e.g., multi-user 
interface design, novel concurrency control schemes).

WG8.4 has previously organized a number of conferences and 
workshops: "Office Systems" (Helsinki, 1985), "Methods 
and Tools for Office Systems" (Pisa, 1986), "Office Know-
ledge: Representation, management and utilization" 
(Toronto, 1987), "Office Information Systems: The design 
process" (Linz, 1988) and "Groupware Technology" (Palo 
Alto, 1989). The Conference on Multi-User Interfaces and 
Applications is the sixth event in this series.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
A partial list of topics includes:
	desktop conferencing
	co-authoring systems
	coordination systems
	electronic meeting rooms
	group decision support
	distributed group problem solving
	design principles for multi-user interfaces
	multi-user interface management
	shared hypertext/multimedia 
	shared window systems
	wide-area file systems

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair		Alex Verrijn-Stuart
			University of Leiden, Netherlands
Programme Chair		Simon Gibbs
			University of Geneva, Switzerland
Organizing Chair	Panos Constantopoulos
			FORTH, Greece


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Simon Gibbs - Chair	University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sid Ahuja		ATT, USA
Susanne Bodker		Aarhus University, Denmark
Janis Bubenko		SISU, Sweden
Stavros Christodoulakis	University of Waterloo, Canada
George Coulouris	Queen Mary College, UK
Bruce Croft		University of Massachusetts, USA
Clarence Ellis		MCC, USA
Fred Lochovsky		University of Toronto, Canada
Jonathan Grudin		MCC, USA (and Aarhus Univ.)
Peter Hammersley	Middlesex Polytechnic, UK
Hiroshi Ishii		NTT, Japan
Matthias Jarke		University of Passau, West Germany
Jack Metthey		CEC, Belgium
Najah Naffah		Bull, France
Barbara Pernici		Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Costantino Thanos	IEI/CNR, Italy
Randy Trigg		Xerox, USA (and Aarhus Univ.)
Yannis Vassiliou	FORTH, Greece
Alex Verrijn-Stuart	University of Leiden, Netherlands
Doug Vogel		University of Arizona, USA

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Submit five copies of a double-spaced paper (twenty pages 
maximum), or electronic submission of equivalent length to:
	Dr. Simon Gibbs
	Centre Universitaire d'Informatique
	12 rue du Lac, Geneva 1207
	SWITZERLAND
	phone:		+41 (22) 787.65.87
	Internet:	gibbs@cgeuge51.BITNET
	uucp:		mcvax!cernvax!cui!simon

Submission deadline:		February 20, 1990
Notification of Authors:	April 20, 1990
Camera-ready Copy:		June 1, 1990