Audience: Human-computer interface researchers, engineers, designers who are studying ambient, intelligent environments.

Audience: Participation by invitation, inquire with organizers.

This workshop will gather key insights from people behind the new open source Sirikata (www.sirikata.com) platform coming out of Stanford as well as thought leaders on the content side of this equation. This is an opportunity for people who wants to get a sense of where the space is headed and what possibilities might grow out of this large scale collaboration around building a next generation platform.

Audience: Developers and users of virtual worlds, especially those interested in open platforms.

This workshop addresses the opportunities and challenges in improving complex decision performance with computing environments designed to enhance decision making. It examines human information processing limitations and cognitive bias, and the software and hardware tools that could be brought to bear systematically to overcome some of these limitations. Participants will match available decision technologies with their own complex problem requirements.

Audience: Technologists, industry executives, academics, government administrators, and others interested in continuously improving their own decision environments.

Social media and virtual worlds offer two important frontiers for measuring earned engagement. In both, audiences are actively engaged as participants. This workshop will cover foundational concepts in media measurement, describe new frontiers in measuring audience engagement in social media and virtual worlds, and provide hands-on experience in using new analytical tools.

This session will also provide a walk through the basic operation of NodeXL, including generation of social networks from social media data sources like personal e-mail (drawing data from the Windows Desktop Search engine) and the Twitter social network micro-blogging system. Arbitrary edge lists (anything that can be pasted into Excel) can be visualized and analyzed in NodeXL. Attendees are encouraged to bring an edge list of interest. Sample data sets will be provided.

Audience: Measurers, media planners, analysts, social scientists, and advertisers.

Audience: Executive team leaders, senior managers,
researchers, collaborators, collaboration experience and technology designers and users.

Audience: Managers, executives, non-profit leaders and all people interested in collaborating about breakthrough innovation that applies to problems of global scope.

Audience: Designers, innovators, managers working for "remote labs" - labs located away from corporate headquarters - who seek to improve their Technology Transfer rate, to gain more acceptance for their "strange ideas" that seem hard to explain to managers who lack the context in which the ideas are born and nurtured. 

Audience: The goal of this workshop is to catalyze multi-institutional research projects that activate the convergence of new visualization approaches and design tools for distributed knowledge sharing and collaboration.