International Workshop on Groupware

San Carlos, Costa Rica will host the CRIWG'2004 workshop of Groupware from September 5-9, 2004. The CRIWG workshops have been motivated by advances in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and by the need for CSCW to meet the challenges of new application areas. This workshop aims at providing a forum for academic researchers and professionals to exchange their experiences and their ideas about problems and solutions related to the design, development and use of groupware applications. For more information, please visit http://www.criwg.org.

Topics to be discussed at the workshop include:

 - Web / Internet cooperative applications / environments

 - Middleware for CSCW applications

 - Distribution / replication support of shared information

 - Groupware development frameworks and toolkits

 - Collaborative workspaces, tailoring

 - Languages and tools supporting collaboration

 - Monitoring and analysis of group interactions

 - Workflow management and coordination

 - Administration support for distributed communities

 - Work modeling in CSCW

 - Organizational computing

 - Multi-user interfaces, Group Awareness

 - Social aspects of group work

 - Nomadic and/or mobile collaborative work

 - Virtual groups and virtual worlds

 - Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)

 - Group decision and negotiation support (GDSS), Meetingware

 - Hypermedia systems, Digital libraries

 - Adaptive collaborative environments

 - Collaborative applications and case studies