For over 25 years, the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) has been a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse topics related to group work, broadly conceptualized. Group 2018 continues the tradition of being truly international and interdisciplinary in both organizational structure as well as participants.
Topics: -Theoretical and/or conceptual contributions about key concepts relevant to CSCW and HCI, including critique. -Social, behavioral, and computational studies of collaboration and communication. -Technical architectures supporting collaboration. -New tool/toolkits for collaborative technologies. -Ethnographic studies of collaborative practices. -Coordination and workflow technology. -Social computing and contexts of collaboration. -Online communities, including issues of privacy, identity, trust, and participation. -Cooperative knowledge management. -Organizational issues of technology design, use, or adaptation. -Strategies for use of technology in business, government, and newer forms of organizations. -Emerging technologies and their design, use, or appropriation in work, home, leisure, entertainment, or education. -Learning at the workplace (CSCL at work, Technology-Enhanced Learning, TEL). -Co-located and geographically-distributed teams, global collaboration. -Cultural and cross-cultural collaboration and communication. -Mobile and wearable technologies in collaboration. -Innovative forms of human computer interaction for cooperative technologies.