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Call for Participation
Interested participants should submit content related to the conference theme. This could include a position paper describing previous work, background, and interest in attending the workshop or a video/demo of an application that helps empower children with media. Position papers should be no longer than 3 printed pages and should be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI publications format. Please email your submission in pdf format to Juan Rubio or Kori Inkpen. The workshop organizers will review the position papers for pertinence to the workshop theme, general interest and quality.

Intended Participants

Intended workshop participants include academics, industrial researchers, designers, practitioners, and teachers who actively work with children in the area of creating, sharing and communicating with media technologies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

children's audio, video or textual communication with family members, friends or teachers
audio or video authoring for children
design issues for media tools
new technologies to enable rich communication
how media can impact children's role in society
how media can impact children's social relationships
children's creative uses of audio, video or text
mobile communication platforms for children

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Expected Outcomes

There are several anticipated outcomes from this workshop:

A number of active projects that will continue after the workshop ends.

New collaborations.

Bring together people who are passionate in this area to identify important research directions.

A collection of resources related to children's creation, sharing and communication with media technologies.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE