The COOP conferences suggest that cooperative systems design requires deep understanding of collective activities, involving both artifacts and social practices. Contributions are solicited from a wide range of domains contributing to the fields of cooperative systems design and evaluation: CSCW, HCI, Information Systems, Knowledge Engineering, Multi-agents, organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, linguistics, etc.

Theoretical contributions, empirical studies reports, software development experiences, innovative concepts are welcome on such topics as:

• Analysis of collective practices or collaborative work
• Conceptual frameworks for understanding cooperative work or collective practices
• Guidelines for designing cooperative systems
• The influence of technologies (mobile Computing, ubiquitous computing…) on cooperation
• Expertise sharing and learning in cooperative work
• Communities and new forms of organization
• Innovative technological solutions and user interfaces
• Methods for participatory design of cooperative systems
• Applications for, and studies of, social networking (including studies of the use of Wikis, Blogs etc).
• Reports of usage experiences

COOP conferences have always been known as an excellent forum for both networking and learning.

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Long papers will be published in proceedings and short papers will be presented during special interactive sessions. The conference program will be completed by a workshop program and a doctoral consortium.

The Proceedings will be published by Springer, and will be indexed in ACM digital library.