<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
Doctoral colloquium submissions should be e-mailed to the Doctoral Colloquium co-chairs at <a href="mailto:group2009-dc@acm.org">group2009-dc@acm.org</a>. 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.</p>
<p>Submissions must also include a supporting recommendation letter from the student's adviser. The recommendation letter should be emailed separately by the adviser.</p>
<p>For questions, please contact the Doctoral Colloquium co-chairs at:<br><a href="mailto:group2009-dc@acm.org">group2009-dc@acm.org</a>.</p>
<p>Thomas Finholt<br>University of Michigan, USA<br> <br>Diane Sonnenwald<br>University of Gothenburg & University of Borås, Sweden</p>
<p>Sponsors:<br>Group 2009 gratefully acknowledges the funding support provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF).<br></p>