[NORSLIS] Doctoral Consortium, ACM Group Conference

[Diane Sonnenwald]

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. candidates can meet and
discuss their work with each other and with a panel of experienced
researchers and practitioners.

The Doctoral Colloquium will be held all day on May 10, 2009. Participants
are expected to stay for the conference, as there will be a poster session
on May 11th and a wrap-up session on May 13th.

We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches that
inform the Group conference, including CSCW, information technology,
information science, HCI, organizational studies, social informatics,
sociology, psychology, anthropology, computer science, cognitive science,
and related fields. (See the Call for Papers at the conference site for
potential topics of interest.) Applicants should be at candidacy and
actively engaged in their dissertation research. The Colloquium committee
will select approximately welve participants who will be expected to give
short, informal presentations of their work during the Colloquium, to be
followed by a discussion.

Doctoral Colloquium papers will be circulated to attendees at the
conference. Doctoral Colloquium participants will also present a poster of
their work during the interactive poster session at the conference.
Applicants selected to participate in the Doctoral Colloquium will be
provided complimentary registration, lodging, and a subsistence allowance.
Please note we will not be able to support international travel.

Submissions should be no longer than two pages, including an abstract of no
more than 150 words and a description of the work in progress. Submissions
should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template. In
addition to this, applicants should send a 2-3 paragraph biographical
sketch.
Doctoral colloquium submissions should be e-mailed to the Doctoral
Colloquium co-chairs at group2009-dc at acm.org. All submissions must be
received by the chairs by midnight Eastern Time on Friday January 30, 2009.
Submissions received after this date will not be considered. All submissions
will be acknowledged by email.

Submissions must also include a supporting recommendation letter from the
student's adviser. The recommendation letter should be emailed separately by
the adviser.

For questions, please contact the Doctoral Colloquium co-chairs at:
group2009-dc at acm.org.

Thomas Finholt
University of Michigan, USA

Diane Sonnenwald
University of Gothenburg & University of Borås, Sweden

Sponsors:
Group 2009 gratefully acknowledges the funding support provided by the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
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