Beyond Threaded Conversation

CHI 2005 Workshop

For a copy of workshop position papers and commentary, please visit the Beyond Threaded Conversation Wiki. The call for participation is no longer active.

Call For Participation

We invite participation proposals to the 2005 CHI Workshop "Beyond Threaded Conversation." The workshop will investigate innovative designs for conversation spaces with tools for collaborative editing, distilling conversation, summarization, non-homogeneous views, and integration with recommendations to name a few. Some of these features can be seen at sites such as Slashdot, Wikipedia, and LiveJournal. Researchers and practitioners with interesting ideas for new conversation design should submit a position paper describing innovative features of a widely-deployed system or a novel design, even if it is still on the drawing board. For more details about the focus of the workshop see our extended abstract.

The workshop will include formal presentations, working group breakout sessions, and full-group discussion of the results. One concrete outcome will be a Wiki page of all results of the workshop, shared among participants, and editable after the workshop. If a rich enough set of ideas emerges, we may edit a special issue of a leading journal.

Position papers may include two pages of text in the CHI format, and up to one additional page of figures and references. They should describe what elements of the evaluated system are innovative and the context in which the design elements are appropriate. All accepted position papers will be posted in an online conversational space to invite discussion before the workshop. Each participant will be expected to post at least one commentary on another participant's position paper before the conference. The best position papers will be presented at the workshop. Only one author will be invited for each accepted position paper. Groups with multiple ideas may submit several position papers.

We will select participants from diverse backgrounds based upon the relevance, originality, and insightfulness of their submissions.

Please email your submission to chi-threaded@umich.edu by January 3, 2005.