We invite position papers for the CHI 2006 Workshop entitled "Designing for Collective Remembering". While much research has focused on capturing and sharing personal memories, less work has addresses collective memories and their remembrance. When memories relate to significant events impacting on an entire group or community and are shared amongst that group, they become collective. Such memories are usually rich, emotionally charged, better recalled by groups and enhance the group's sense of identity. In addition, the act of sharing individual memories can alter the initial emotional print that an individual holds before his/her memories become collective.

This one-day workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum of discussion for (1) practitioners interested in designing technology for collective remembering and (2) academic researchers in fields such as design, HCI, computer science, sociology, anthropology and information science. The workshop will facilitate discussions aimed at the development of a set of guidelines for designing systems for collective remembering. This includes designing for the experience of sharing one's own memories, and for the experience of enjoying others' memories.

The workshop accepts original contributions relating (but not limited) to:

• designing technology for triggering, capturing, storing and sharing collective memories
• designing for engagement and enrichment of emotional aspects associated with accessing and sharing memories
• design guidelines for technologies that gather, store and share memories
• human factors in the memory gathering and sharing processes
• methods and instruments for the usability of memory technology
• multi-modal interaction and multimedia for memory technology
• pervasive and mobile technology as memory technology
• social aspects related to memory technologies: sharing, sense of community, group identity
• psychological aspects related to memory technology: privacy, ownership, anonymity
• learning from collective memories, e.g. providing children with access to collective memories and to the lessons associated with them.

Submissions should be sent by January 9 to Corina Sas at c.sas AT lancaster.ac.uk and should include:

• A cover letter containing a brief biography, reasons of interest in the workshop topic and a 250-300 word description of relevant research.
• A four page position papers describing case studies of fully developed or prototype systems for collective remembering. Theoretical approaches to design challenges for collective memories are also welcomed.