The workshop attracted 41 delegates from France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, UK, Australia and the USA, and two invited speakers from the USA and Ireland. The workshop was chaired by Peter Johnson and Panos Markopoulos from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. The opening address was given by Dan Olsen from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Human usage demands regularity.
He argued for a focus on surface representations in order to support truly large communities. There is inherent regularity in such output that is waiting to be exploited by other tools. All that remains is for us to design them. This, I believe, is where the future of interactive technology lies. He spoke about the growing interest in HCI, CSCW and cognitive science into conceptualizing activity as socially organized and situated.