GROUP

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to GROUP'10. This is the 16th gathering in this influential international conference series which despite sporadic name changes -- from Organizational Information Systems, to Organizational Computing Systems, to Group -- remains focused on the challenges of evaluating and developing socio-technical systems to support collaborative work among individuals, within and across groups, organizations and geo-political boundaries.

We find ourselves once again in November on lovely Sanibel Island, Florida. To accommodate changes in the timing of the CSCW conference, the Group community decided to reconvene only 18 months after our last meeting. This provided some challenges, but we are very pleased with the demonstrated commitment to GROUP by our colleagues who have generously donated their time and effort to organize the conference, review papers, lead the Doctoral Colloquium, convene workshops, chair sessions, and be student volunteers. The conference would not be possible without your support.

The GROUP'10 call for papers attracted 101 submissions from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America. The program committee accepted 27 papers and 9 notes that cover a wide variety of topics. This year included a dedicated reviewing track for technical systems development papers, a critical component of our larger research community. In addition to four pre-conference workshops, we are able to host our third Doctoral Colloquium. Generous funding from the National Science Foundation allows us to bring together 11 advanced Ph.D. students from 5 countries for a multiday program of interaction with leading researchers in our field. The poster program has expanded to two days of integrated sessions this year, highlighting 26 research projects, including those of our Doctoral Colloquium participants.