The CCC Hybrid Workshop on Best Practices for Hybrid Workshops
October 14-15, 2021
Multiple Sites
1828 L Street, NW Suite 800
Event Contact
Ann Schwartz
aschwartz@cra.org
Event Type
2021 Events, 2021 Visioning Activities
Event Category
The 2020 pandemic has catalyzed the transition to remote work but even prior to the pandemic, supported by new technologies (faster Internet connections, powerful end-user computing and communication devices, cloud applications, etc.), there has been a slow and steady move to a distributed and remote workforce. Increasingly, in many sectors people can literally work from anywhere thanks to the advances in computing and communications. Some of the scenarios that have become very familiar to many in the last decade include:
- Catching up on work in the evening from home
- Watching an oversubscribed lecture on-line
- Participating in a meeting remotely
- Developing code in a large software project with a distributed team
Even with the technological advances and adoption of remote work, there are some serious challenges that remain. In particular, hybrid environments in which there are clusters of participants who are co-located physically while others are distributed across the world, are far from perfect. Hybrid environments present both technological and social challenges, including inequity issues across a number of dimensions. We believe our future is hybrid. Towards that end, we would like to plan a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) visioning activity on the technical, social and equity challenges that hybrid environments present. And what better way to experience and experiment than run the visioning in a hybrid environment? This is what we mean by “Meta Hybrid Visioning.”
October 14, 2021 (Thursday)
Welcome / Participant 1-slide Introductions | |
Demos
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Adjourn |
October 15, 2021 (Friday)
Welcome | |
Themes 1 and 2: Sustainability and Social Factors
Breakout Group Discussions |
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Group Reports | |
Break (meal time, personal time) | |
Themes 3 and 4: Technology and Accessibility
Breakout Group Discussions |
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Group Reports | |
Break (meal time, personal time) | |
Closing Discussions: Bringing it together and next steps | |
Workshop Ends |
First Name | Last Name | Affiliation |
Sujata | Banerjee | VMware Research |
Jonathan | Bell | Northeastern University + Midspace |
Elisa | Bertino | Purdue University |
Liz | Bradley | University of Colorado |
Fahad | Dogar | Tufts University |
Khari | Douglas | CRA |
Ann | Drobnis | CRA/CCC |
Hamid | Ekbia | Indiana University |
Maria | Gini | University of Minnesota |
William | Gropp | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Peter | Harsha | CRA |
Brent | Hecht | Microsoft and Northwestern University |
Michael | Hicks | University of Maryland |
Mo | Houtti | GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota |
Maddy | Hunter | CRA/CCC |
Victoria | Interrante | University of Minnesota |
Lucy | Jiang | University of Washington |
Richard | Ladner | University of Washington, AccessComputing |
Brian | LaMacchia | Microsoft Research |
Cliff | Lampe | University of Michigan |
Daniel | Lopresti | Lehigh University |
Kevin | McCurley | IACR |
Benjamin | Pierce | Midspace and University of Pennsylvania |
Anirudh | Ravi | OhmniLabs |
Katie | Siek | Indiana University |
Tra | Vu | OhmniLabs |
Helen | Wright | CRA/CCC |
Holly | Yanco | UMass Lowell |
Lana | Yarosh | University of Minnesota |
Moyan | Zhou | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
Sujata Banerjee
VMware
Maria Gini
University of Minnesota
Daniel P. Lopresti
Lehigh University
Holly Yanco
University of Massachusetts Lowell
This is a unique visioning workshop that will include virtual participants and participants at various “hubs” across the country.
CRA will reimburse reasonable travel expenses incurred by attendees at select CRA-sponsored events. All reimbursement requests will be processed by CRA Reimbursements (reimburse@cra.org), Nicole and Jill.
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International Attendees:
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General Articles and Blogs
- 13 Rules for Successful Hybrid Meetings: Lessons from 100 Articles
- Distance matters
- New Microsoft Study of 60,000 Employees: Remote Work Threatens Long-Term Innovation
- My hybrid conference wishlist
- Ideas on mute? Study: Remote meetings dampen brainstorming
- Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation
Accessibility
- SIGACCESS Guide to Accessible Virtual Conferences
- SIGACCESS Guide to Accessible Conferences
- Behind the scenes of axe-con: building a large, accessible
- Accessibility in Third-Party Products and Services
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