Call For Participation

We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners interested in addressing the relationship between technology and the intensification of life in the workplace, at home, and elsewhere. Sample topics include but are not limited to:

1. •Interruption management and the increasing demand on cognitive resources
   

2. •Information overload in web, internet, and communication technologies, including social media and social networking sites: causes, experiences, coping strategies, and social and cultural responses
   

3. •Rhetoric and costs of anytime, anywhere access and availability with mobile and awareness technologies
   

4. •Sociological analysis of uses of technologies for time management, activity and task management, and personal information management
   

5. •Technology saving whose time, at whose expense and other political questions
   

6. •Analysis of ties between technologies in domestic environments and the acceleration of home life and leisure
   

7. •Designing for slowness, reflection, and pause
   

8. •Analysis of ways technology design redistributes workload either surreptitiously, intentionally, or accidentally, fairly or unfairly, sometimes in the name of “efficiency”
   

9. •Possibilities for and limitations of interventions based on technology design or changing use practices in any of these topics
   

To participate, please submit a position paper that briefly addresses each of  the following questions:

1. 1.What work have you done in this area? How is it related to the theme of this symposium?
   

2. 2.Identify one or two key issues, challenges, or opportunities you are interested in discussing in this symposium. Why are they important? How do you envision making progress in addressing them?
   

3. 3.What one piece of research or writing have you found most inspirational for your work in the area?
   

Submissions should be 2-4 pages, using the ACM paper format available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Please send your submission or questions about the symposium to gl87@cornell.edu.

Key Dates

February 1, 2011: Deadline for position papers

March 1, 2011: Notification of acceptance

May 5-7, 2011: Symposium