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Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises 
 

Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises Important Dates Registration Preliminary Agenda Program Committee ECE 2000 Workshop Report General Information WET ICE '2001 Home Page Conference Location Hotel Information IEEE Format for Proceedings Manuscripts IEEE Copyright Policies Previous WET ICE Workshops Participating Organizations IEEE IEEE Computer Society CERC, West Virginia University National Institute of Standard and Technology Linkoping University	Effective collaboration involves people sharing information. Internet technology has enabled basic communication infrastructures to facilitate people working together collaboratively over the Web. However, using these applications has proven much more difficult in enabling effective collaboration within and among enterprises than some Internet advocates would suggest. Researchers need tools to measure the incremental progress towards developing useful collaborative systems, as well as methods to evaluate the impact of specific technologies on the effectiveness of collaboration. We believe effective evaluation and appropriate standardization are mechanisms that will facilitate progress in Web-based collaboration. The primary goal of this workshop is to facilitate the progress of distributed collaboration through improved application development by faciliating development of methods and tools for the evaluation of collaborative enterprises. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to bring together people who are addressing the unique and challenging needs of collaborative enterprise evaluation. Workshop Description: Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises builds upon the research presentations and the vibrant discussion from last year's debut of this workshop. A common theme identified at WETICE 2000 was the need for research to better understand the characteristics of the collaborative enterprise of interest and then what evaluation approaches, methods, and techniques and the associated metrics and tools are most appropriate for use. Ultimately, there needs to be a framework or taxonomy that can answer: Which approaches are best for evaluating different types of collaborative systems? Can these be categorized? In the design cycle of collaborative software development, when are particular evaluation approaches effective and when are they not? Can a spectrum be developed? What combination of methods and techniques for gathering metrics are most effective for the situation under evaluation? Which evaluation approaches, methods and techniques address collaboration process and product effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction? Which metrics address product and process effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of the collaborative enterprise under study? What evaluation tools and mechanisms are best for generating specific metrics? Topics that contribute to this framework may include: Benchmark collaboration scenarios and associated evaluation measures for groupware system design and development. Adaptation of single-user software development and evaluation techniques to groupware evaluation. Groupware design principles or heuristics for use in groupware evaluation. Analysis of group characteristics (organizational, behavioral, and technical) and corresponding groupware characteristics. Collaboration evaluation methods and tools that use design ethnography. Case studies evaluating collaborative enterprises. Methods and tools for lowering the cost of evaluating collaborative enterprises. Methods and tools for effective field study evaluation. Submissions Technical papers:  Authors of technical papers should submit an original paper (not submitted or published elsewhere) in portable document format (pdf) format by email to robert.allen@nist.gov. Submissions should include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and no more than eight keywords. Submissions should not exceed 3000 words in length (including figure equivalents). The name, position, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence must be included.  Poster papers:  The evaluation collaborative enterprises workshop committee invites poster papers on new and exciting research work, work-in-progress and demonstrations related to the workshop themes. Authors of poster papers should submit an extended abstract by email to michelle.steves@nist.gov. Submissions should include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and no more than four keywords. Submissions should not exceed 1500 words in length. The name, position, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence must be included.  A selection of accepted papers will be published in the workshop post-proceedings. Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings are limited to six pages (about 2000-2500 words) in IEEE format (two columns, single spaced, 10pt Times) for technical papers and two pages for poster papers. Authors are strongly encouraged to adhere to this format also when submitting papers. Detailed information on the IEEE format (together with some templates) is available at  http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.  Panel proposals Send six copies of panel proposals, or by email, to michelle.steves@nist.gov. Include a title, a 150-word scope statement, proposed session chair and panelists and their affiliations, the organizer's affiliation, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address.
	Program Co-Chairs Robert Allen Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA E-mail: robert.allen@nist.gov	Michelle Steves NIST 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8260 USA E-mail: michelle.steves@nist.gov
	Workshop Program Committee Janet Allen, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeff Campbell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Jill Drury, The Mitre Corporation Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan Doug Johnson, Hewlett Packard Amy Knutilla, Knutilla Technologies Emile Morse, National Institute of Standards and Technology Srinivas Nidamarthi, Cambridge University Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, College Park Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bill Regli, Drexel University Eswaran Subrahmanian, Carnegie Mellon University Marian Williams, University of Massachusetts Lowell Important Dates Full papers due to workshop organizers  February 26 extended to March 23, 2001 Notification of decisions to paper authors April 20 extended to April 23, 2001 Advance registration deadline June 6, 2001 Final papers due for post-proceedings June 6, 2001 Workshop June 20-22, 2001 Inquiries Please send all inquiries regarding this workshop to michelle.steves@nist.gov or robert.allen@nist.gov. For inquiries regarding WET ICE in general, contact wetice@cerc.wvu.edu or call (U.S.) +1-304-293-7226.

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