@inproceedings{6b8c57d9604c4cf2944d45c419ae302d,
title = "Traces, Breadcrumbs, and Patina: Exploring and Designing with Traces of Activity",
abstract = "This one-day workshop invites members of the CSCW community with a research interest in activity traces to jointly explore and refine the currently ill-defined concept of traces. Traces are an important means for people to remember and interpret the state of things, not least when navigating collaborative situations. However, although traces and related concepts have turned up in CSCW and HCI literature over at least three decades, work has been sporadic and has not been consolidated – as evidenced, for example, by a proliferation of terms, from “traces” to “footprints” and “DNA”. As a consequence, our field does not have a good conceptual apparatus for dealing with traces, whether empirically or as a resource in design. This workshop will offer a structured forum for developing traces as a concept for use in both empirical and design work. The workshop aims to recruit broadly, from those who design with traces or build systems that use or create traces, to those who seek to understand traces empirically or theoretically. Outcomes of the workshop will include a crowd-sourced catalog of traces and one or more initial definition(s) and/or a typology of traces, both of which will be available to participants after the workshop.",
keywords = "awareness, breadcrumbs, collaboration, concepts, design, document DNA, footprints, interactive systems, patina, social translucence, stigmergic signs, traces, wear",
author = "Ida Larsen-Ledet and Myriam Lewkowicz and Klokmose, \{Clemens N.\} and Carol Linehan and Luigina Ciolfi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2025 ; Conference date: 18-10-2025 Through 22-10-2025",
year = "2025",
month = oct,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1145/3715070.3748288",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery ",
pages = "116--119",
editor = "\{Pinatti de Carvalho\}, \{Aparecido Fabiano\} and Jessica Vitak and Xiaojuan Ma and Xinru Page and Chiara Rossitto and Su, \{Norman Makoto\} and Louise Barkhuus and Louise Barkhuus and Monica Divitini and Hughes, \{Amanda Lee\} and Jina Huh-Yoo and Claudia Ignat and Ryan Kelly and Kurt Luther and Scott McCrickard and David McDonald and Jessica Pater and Hilda Tellioglu and Adriana Vivacqua and Hao-Chuan Wang and Jie Cai and Maia Jacobs and Stigberg, \{Susanne Koch\}",
booktitle = "CSCW Companion 2025 - Companion of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
address = "United States",
}