WET ICE-2000 Evaluating Collaborative Enterprise Workshop Agenda

June 14, Wednesday -

7:30  -    8:30 AM             Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Breakfast, On site Registration begins
8:30  –   9:00 AM Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint session: Opening remarks by General Chair, Introduction of (Program Chair, Workshop Chairs/organizers), Workshop Charge by General Chair
9:00    -10:00 AM Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint session- Plenary Talk by Richard H. F. Jackson of NIST: " Manufacturing in the New Millennium - A Western Perspective".
10:00 - 10:30 AM            Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee Break
10:30 –12:00 PM Lecture A,B,C,D   Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises begins

Workshop overview, goals, logistics, etc.

Paper presentations: Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises

  • "A Review of Groupware Evaluations" by Pinelle and Gutwin
  • "Techniques for Evaluating Collaborative Systems" by Dewan

Discussion: Summarize evaluation methodologies/ tools - advantages/ disadvantages, metrics, when most effectively applied, etc. What are the pros and cons of existing approaches to evaluating collaborative systems? What are the future needs?

12:00 -   1:00 PM                Lunch   (On Your Own!)
1:00  –   2:00 PM Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint Session: Plenary talk by P. Khosla of Carnegie Mellon University
2:00  –   3:00 PM Lecture A,B,C,D    Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Paper presentations: Collaboration System Evaluation Methods and Tools

  • "The Mechanics of Collaboration: Developing Low Cost Usability Evaluation Methods for Shared Workshpaces" by Gutwin and Greenberg
  • "CollabLogger: A Tool for Visualizing Groups At Work" by Morse and Steves
3:00   -   3:30 PM               Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee break
3:30  –   5:00 PM Lecture A,B,C,D    Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Paper presentations: Collaboration System Evaluation Methods and Tools resumes

  • "An Evaluation and Comparison of the Industrial and Educational Usage of CSCW Within the Design Process" by Thomson, MacGregor and Ion
  • "Towards and Evaluation Methodology for the Development of Research-Oriented Virtual Communities" by Chignell, Ho and schraefel

Discussion: In what ways can we reduce the cost of collaboraton system evaluation? In what ways can we increase the effectiveness of collaboration system evaluation? Continue summarizing evaluation methodologies/ tools - advantages/ disadvantages, metrics, etc.

Outline preliminary report to be given on Thursday, 2:30

** Evening: Conference Banquet **

June 15, Thursday –

 

  7:30 -     8:30 AM            Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Breakfast, On site Registration
  8:30 –    9:30 AM       Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint session: Plenary talk by Jack Corley of Advance Technology Institute:   "Collaborative Technology for Healthcare"
  9:30 – 10:30 AM Lecture A,B,C,D   Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Paper presentations: Application Specific Collaborative Enterprises

  • "Deploying and Evaluating collaborative Studios" by Sevy, Zaychik, Hewett and Regli
  • "A Method to Design Process Architecture in the Distributed Product Realization Environment" by Xiao, Allen, Rosen and Mistree
10:30 – 11:00 PM               Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 PM Lecture A,B,C,D   Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Paper presentations: Application Specific Collaborative Enterprises resumes

  • "Evaluating Engineering Workflow" by Ullman, McNown-Perry, Bouchard and D'Ambrosio
  • "The Concept of Networking - How to Measure and Manage Networked Enterprises" by Alt and Fleisch
  • "Evaluation Challenges for a Federation of Heterogeneous Information Providers: The Case of NASA's Earth Science Information Partnerships" by Plaisant and Komlodi
12:30 –   1:30 PM             Lunch   (On Your Own!)
  1:30 –   2:30 Plenary talk
  2:30 –   3:30 PM   Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint Session: Preliminary short report by each Workshop
  3:30   – 4 PM                 Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee break
  4:00    - 5:00 PM Lecture A,B,C,D    Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Discussion: How do we apply best evaluation methods and tools to collaborative enterprise implmentations? What methods/ tools from the first day would be useful and what is still missing? What are the highest priority research needs?

June 16, Friday

  7:30 -  8:30 AM              Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Breakfast
  8:30 -10:00 AM Lecture A,B,C,D    Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Discussion (continuing previous discussions as useful and any new topics) and preparation of final report

10:00 -10:30 AM               Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee break
10:30 -12:00 PM Lecture A,B,C,D    Admin Bldg 101 Workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises resumes

Discussion and preparation of final report

12:00 -  1:00 PM                  Lunch   (On Your Own!)
  1:00 -  3:00 PM     Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint session: Announcement of best papers    Final Workshop report by each group
  3:00 -  3:30 PM              Green Auditorium Lobby Admin Bldg. 101 Coffee break
  3:30 -  5:00 PM Green Auditorium Admin Bldg. 101 Joint session: Final report continues

Closing of WETICE 2000