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In the last session of the conference the closing keynote was given: “TUNES: The Irish traditional music session as organizational model” by Micheal O Suilleabhain from the University of Limerick. The first thing to notice was that the whole setup has changed - instead of a screen for a video projector there were some music [...]

The paper session on the morning after the social event - not so many participants in yet (45 just before the first talk started) - but numbers are increasing ;-)
Before I address the papers presented (it really was worth visiting this session - as it was with most other session at this conference), some comments [...]

One of the demos here at ECSCW 2007 is “SONAR: Social Networks Architecture” by IBM Haifa Research Lab - Given by Ido Guy:
The application gathers social network information from several providers: email (Lotus Notes), social tagging (Dogear), blogs (comments), social networking services (Fringe), …, allows to weight the links according to source (a nice user [...]

“Asymmetrical collaboration in print shop-customer relationships”, Jacki O’Neill - a paper from Xerox Research Centres Europe and Webster: customers (design shops) have to collaborate with print shop to get consistent colors (color managed workflow); the “standard” system intended for the task (color spaces, CMYK, …) does not work; there are several ad hoc solutions that [...]

The session started with a “demo madness” - five demos presented in five minutes (altogether) - just teasers but I found it very helpful to decide what I should have a closer look at. Here my “decission”:

BubbleBoard: a visual answering machine - touchscreen, annotations, possibility to arrange messages … very nice
SONAR: social network aggregation

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Finally pictures from day 0 and day 1 start to appear on flickr - have a look.
And then to day 2 which started with paper session - as usual here some comments on the ones I found worth commenting ;-)

“‘… and do it the usual way’: fostering awareness of work conventions in document-mediated collaboration”, Federico [...]

The first day ends with the regular/famous panel on “ECSCW: Where are we? Reflections and Prognostications” - Here some comments from the presentations and the discussion.
Geraldine Fitzpatrick

we have to remember how the (computer) world looked like when we started (20 years ago) …
questions/issues: 1) what sorts of influences have we had in the world? (what [...]

While the rest of this blog is written in German, I will keep the posts about ECSCW 2007 in English - to allow for better accessibility for all the other ECSCW participants …
For me the first big event at ECSCW 2007 was the workshop on Web 2.0 and CSCW I organized with Wolfgang Prinz. The [...]