Workshop Format

Invited participants were asked to submit a paper for the workshop. From the submitted papers, a planning committee met at ICIS to select papers to be presented at the workshop. Other invited participants were able to submit final versions of their papers to be included in the record of the workshop.

The papers selected for presentation were finalized and submitted to the organizers by February 28, 2005. They were then distributed to discussants with enough time to include their comments in the workshop proceedings. During the workshop, the authors of the selected papers gave a presentation, followed by comments from the discussants, and then followed by open discussion. The purpose of the discussants was to make suggestions for improvement to the papers with the plan of incorporating the comments and suggestions prior to publication of the final papers. Discussants were selected from among the invited participants.

All workshop attendees were also invited to submit testimonials regarding their experiences with Rob, the influence of his work on them, the influence of his work on Social Informatics or on related fields such as information systems, sociology, information science, or computer science. These will appear in the record of the workshop and will also be published in an accessible medium, such as Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS).