This is a follow-on workshop after a very stimulating and productive workshop at CSCW 2010. A lot of attendees said they would be unable to travel to China for CSCW 2011 (although I myself am hoping to go) so we decided on an alternate venue for the follow-on workshop: HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. We hope that you will be able to join us and participate in the ongoing cultivation of our growing research community.

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Janary 4-7, 2011

WORKSHOP
The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations (full-day)
Cecillia Aragon, James Howison, Charlotte Lee, and Claudio Silva
We encourage 3- to 4-page position papers on the following topics, especially those with a
focus on understanding or supporting changing practices in these areas:
• Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing, and
visualization
• Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization
• Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations
• Research on the scientific software ecosystem
• Social networks of scientists
• Repurposing social software for science
• Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software
• Distributed data gathering and analysis
• Time-critical scientific applications
• Studies of generational differences in how science is done
• Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to a non-scientific field
• Science and Innovation policy questions on these issues at science funding bodies and
beyond.

The workshop will bring together researchers who study scientific practices and collaboration
and designers who propose to deploy new types of collaborative systems. Research in this area
is starting to coalesce into a field of inquiry, but we are still trying to build critical mass and to
establish a base for our community of researchers studying the many aspects of scientific
collaboration. Therefore, the goal of the workshop is to produce a white paper to report on the
state of the field and to delineate themes that comprise current challenges.

Flyer for HICSS Workshop on Scientific Collaboration (swt-cds)