<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">ACM CHI 2010 Workshop</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Designing and Evaluating Affective Aspects of Sociable Media to Support Social Connectedness</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">April 11, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 26, 249); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000">Website: <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/socialconnectednesschi2010/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px">http://sites.google.com/site/socialconnectednesschi2010/</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Submission deadline: January 6, 2010</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">_____________________________________________</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WORKSHOP OVERVIEW</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Social connectedness is described as the momentary experience of belonging and relatedness with others and is often considered one of the goals of social media technologies. We seek participants from various domains for an interdisciplinary workshop on designing and evaluating affective aspects of sociable media to support social connectedness. Position papers are invited on the following topics: </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">(1) understanding and measuring social connectedness (including qualitative and quantitative approaches) </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">(2) types of content mediated by sociable media to foster users’ social connectedness (including issues of privacy management)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">(3) design experiences and interaction affordances of connectedness systems</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">(4) case studies that involve the design of awareness systems for social connectedness, or studies where social connectedness is used as a medium to support other goal</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The goal of this workshop is connecting researchers from social science and design disciplines to foster future collaboration and resource exchange. Through our discussion, we hope to crystallize a concrete research agenda for investigating social connectedness systems. A concrete outcome of the workshop will be a proposal for a special issue of a journal on the topic of designing and evaluating social connectedness systems that the organizers will submit to appropriate venues. Interested parties are invited to submit a position paper of 2-4 pages, in the CHI Extended Abstracts format, to <a href="mailto:t.visser@tudelft.nl"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">t.visser@tudelft.nl</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Up-to-date information on the workshop will be available at: <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/socialconnectednesschi2010/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">http://sites.google.com/site/socialconnectednesschi2010/</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Note: participants must register for the workshop and for at least one day of the CHI 2010 conference.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Submission deadline – 6</span><span style="font: 8.0px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> of January, 2010</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Notification of acceptance – 30</span><span style="font: 8.0px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> of January, 2010</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Workshop – 11</span><span style="font: 8.0px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> of April, 2010</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">ORGANIZERS</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Thomas Visser (Delft University of Technology), <a href="mailto:t.visser@tudelft.nl"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">t.visser@tudelft.nl</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Pavan Dadlani (Philips Research), <a href="mailto:pavan.dadlani@philips.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">pavan.dadlani@philips.com</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Daan van Bel (Eindhoven University of Technology),<a href="mailto:d.t.v.bel@tue.nl"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">d.t.v.bel@tue.nl</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> * Svetlana "Lana" Yarosh (Georgia Institute of Technology), <a href="mailto:lana@cc.gatech.edu"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #001af9">lana@cc.gatech.edu</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; ">Please feel free to contact any of the organizers with any questions you may have regarding the workshop.</div></body></html>