Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




Wednesday, December 3, 2014

CFP: Information Technology and City Life

Information Technology and City Life // CSCW 2015 WORKSHOP

Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15, 2015 | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Part of the 18th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Our aim is to facilitate a session that encourages computer scientists, industry professionals, academic researchers, architects, urban planners, government officials, hackers, artists, and other interested participants to work together to explore timely questions relating to Information Technology and City Life.

More information here: http://citytech.apps-1and1.com/

SUBMISSIONS
We accept two types of submissions: (1) original research or work-in-progress and (2) project idea that includes a description of a problem and possible solution (such as tool) that might be developed as part of this workshop.

All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. This workshop accepts research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 2 pages) or position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by the deadlines provided below and formatted in CHI Extended Abstract, camera-ready style. All submitted contributions will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the program committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to citytechcscw15@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2014
Paper acceptance notifications: January 15, 2015

Organizers:
Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research Lab Dublin
Sheena Erte, DePaul University
Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh
Gary Hsieh, University of Washington
Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
Claudia Lopez, University of Pittsburgh
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona
Raz Schwartz, Facebook Research
Amy Voida, Indiana University Indianapolis