Workshop Overview

This workshop will be held at CSCW 2008 in San Diego, CA.

The field of CSCW has gradually evolved and broadened its focus to include a variety of new contexts and groups beyond those in the workplace. One active area of research is the design of technology to support families. Families present designers with collaborative configurations distinctly different from those in the work place. These configurations are widespread and encompass many different contexts, including different application spaces, family arrangements, user goals, etc. The challenge with this is that there tends to be little common ground in which researchers and designers of technologies for families can understand how various studies and applications compare methodologically and in context.

The goal of this one-day workshop will be to bring together people in the CSCW community focusing on designing for families and synthesize the various methodological tools that people have used in their research and identify challenges with these methods and potential solutions.

Note: If you are submitting to a workshop like ours, we encourage you to register for the conference during the early registration period and then add the workshop after you have been notified.