Best of CSCW2006 Awards

Jon Hindmarsh, Awards Chair

This year the conference initiated a Best of CSCW2006 awards program. The reviewing process for the conference as a whole ensures the quality of published contributions, but this program provides an opportunity to acknowledge the most outstanding contributions in two submission categories: Papers and Notes. The Papers and Notes committees nominated up to 5% of their submissions as Award Nominees. A separate awards committee will then choose a select group of these submissions - no more than 1% of the total submissions - to receive a "Best" designation. All other nominees receive honorable mention. Best Papers and Notes will be announced at the conference.

Best Papers

  • Identification of Coordination Requirements: Implications for the Design of Collaboration and Awareness Tools
    • Marcelo Cataldo (Carnegie Mellon University)
    • Patrick Wagstrom (Carnegie Mellon University)
    • James Herbsleb (Carnegie Mellon University)
    • Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution
    • Shilad Sen (University of Minnesota)
    • Shyong K. (Tony) Lam (University of Minnesota)
    • Al Mamunur Rashid (University of Minnesota)
    • Dan Cosley (University of Minnesota)
    • Dan Frankowski (University of Minnesota)
    • Jeremy Osterhouse (University of Minnesota)
    • F. Maxwell Harper (University of Minnesota)
    • John Riedl (University of Minnesota)

Honorable Mention Papers

  • Making Things Work: Dimensions of Configurability as Appropriation Work
    • Ellen Balka (Simon Fraser University)
    • Ina Wagner (Vienna University of Technology)
  • From the War Room to the Living Room: Decision Support for Home-based Therapy Teams
    • Julie A. Kientz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Gillian R. Hayes (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Gregory D. Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Rebecca E. Grinter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • The Human Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure
    • Charlotte Lee (University of California, Irvine)
    • Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine)
    • Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine)
  • An Exploratory Analysis of Partner Action and Camera Control in a Video-Mediated Collaborative Task
    • Abhishek Ranjan (University of Toronto)
    • Jeremy Birnholtz (University of Toronto)
    • Ravin Balakrishnan (University of Toronto)
  • Technology in Spiritual Formation: An Exploratory Study of Computer Mediated Religious Communications
    • Susan P. Wyche (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Gillian R. Hayes (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Lonnie D. Harvel (Electrical and Computing Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Rebecca E. Grinter (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Best Note

  • Sandboxes: Supporting Social Play through Collaborative Multimedia Composition on Mobile Phones
    • David Fono (University of Toronto)
    • Scott Counts (Microsoft Research)

Honorable Mention Notes

  • Not all Sharing is Equal: The Impact of a Large Display on Small Group Collaborative Work
    • Stephanie Wilson (City University London)
    • Julia Galliers (City University London)
    • James Fone (Framfab UK Ltd)
  • Leveraging Digital Backchannels to Enhance User Experience in Electronically Mediated Communication
    • Wendy A. Kellogg (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • Thomas Erickson (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • Tracee Vetting Wolf (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • Stephen Levy (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • James E. Christensen (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • Jeremy Sussman (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • William E. Bennett (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

 

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