Call for Participation ** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 ** CSCW 2010 Workshop, Sunday, Feb 7, 2010 The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative technologies. A new generation of scientists, working in large-scale collaborations, is repurposing social software for use in collaborative science. Existing social tools such as chat, IM, and FriendFind are being adopted and modified for use as group problem-solving facilities. At the same time, exponentially greater and more complex datasets are being generated at a rate that is challenging the limits of current hardware, software, and human cognitive capability. A concerted effort to create software that will support new scientific practices and handle this data tsunami is redefining the collaboratory and represents a new frontier for computer supported cooperative work. This follow-on event to a similarly themed workshop at CHI 2009 is intended to foster community among researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines interested in the changing dynamics of scientific collaborations. We encourage papers on the following topics, especially those with a focus on changing practices in these areas: * Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing, and visualization * Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization * Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations * Social networks of scientists * Repurposing social software for science * Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software * Distributed data gathering and analysis * Time-critical scientific applications * Studies of generational differences in how science is done * Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to a non-scientific field Paper Submission Instructions: Submissions should be position papers 2-4 pages in length. Please use the ACM SIGCHI Template (Word version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.doc or LaTeX version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.cls) . All submissions will be reviewed. The possibility of a journal special issue or book based on expanded versions of the submissions will be explored following the workshop. Papers (in .pdf or .doc format) should be submitted via email to CRAragon@lbl.gov. Please put "CSCW 2010 Workshop Submission" in the subject of the email. ** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 ** Notification of acceptance will be sent out on or before December 18, 2009. For more information, please see the workshop web site: http://www.sci.utah.edu/cscw2010/ Organizers: Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CRAragon@lbl.gov Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University, jheer@cs.stanford.edu Charlotte Lee, University of Washington, cplee@u.washington.edu Claudio Silva, University of Utah, csilva@sci.utah.edu