As We May Work: Advancing Social Technologies for the Distributed
Enterprise
Call for Abstracts (Graduate Students Only)
The structure of organizations is being rapidly transformed: Increases in mobile workers, globally distributed teams, and federated enterprises are changing the environment in which we work. These and other factors disrupt workers' established means of knowing within the enterprise and create new challenges and opportunities for them. Social technologies offer means for evolving more suitable work practices that flexibly draw on distributed expertise. These include technologies that support interaction with known colleagues as well as technologies that seek to leverage the knowledge and expertise of strangers. This symposium seeks to provide rich and analytical descriptions of how these important advances are transforming enterprises, describe the technologies on which these advances rest, and prognosticate what trends will emerge in unlocking the collaborativepotential of enterprises.
Example topics:
- Expertise brokers and connectors
- Blogs and wikis for professional reputation creation and distribution of information
- Technologies that enable more productive distributed work
- Socially-aware code management systems
- Social network visualization to compound social capital
- Collaborative augmentation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Technologies to better support mobile workers
- Technologies that better mobilize the collective intelligence of an enterprise
Participants
We are seeking contributions from currently matriculated graduate students, particularly those in departments of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Management Science, Organizational Science, and Learning Sciences. Students are asked to submit an extended abstract (1000 words) describing their work, a current CV, and a supporting letter from their advisor. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be provided with limited travelfunds.
Dates
Submission deadline: September 26, 2005
Acceptance notification: October 10, 2005
Symposium date: November 7, 2005
Email abstracts and supporting documentation to:
Catalina Danis (danis@us.ibm.com) or Douglas Gordin (dgordin@us.ibm.com)
Douglas Gordin, PhD
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Voice: 914.784.7806
dgordin@us.ibm.com
