1. Role-Based Collaboration(RBC) The Past and Future Events

2. The Past Special Sessions on RBC SMC’03, Washington DC SMC’04, The Hague, Netherlands SMC’05, The Big Island, Hawaii DIS’06, Prague, Czech SMC’06, Taipei, Taiwan

3. The current Workshop on RBC, CSCW’06

4. The Future Workshop on RBC Special Sessions on RBC Independent Workshop on RBC

5. The Theme Use role mechanisms to support people’s collaboration based on computer systems Support collaboration among components of systems with role mechanisms

6. The Topics of RBC Role concepts and their applications in organizations and management The roles of roles in face-to-face collaboration The usability improvement based on roles Resolution of role conflict in face-to-face collaboration with computer systems Fundamental concepts and components in role-based collaboration Roles as collaboration modeling mechanisms Internal properties of roles: specification, expression, and presentation External properties of roles: relationships among roles, objects, agents, and people Role management in CSCW systems Frameworks for role-based collaboration Role-based coordination Role-based conflict resolution Role-based adaptive user interface design Role-based software development Roles in social computing systems Applications of role-based approaches