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HICSS-40
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS TRACK

Co-chair:  Robert Briggs
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha NE 68182
rbriggs@mail.unomaha.edu

Co-chair:  Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona  85721
Phone:  (520) 621-4475
Fax:  (520) 621-3918
nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu


Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies (David Spencer and Eric Santanen)
Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT ( Nicholas Romano, Narcyz Roztocki, and James Pick)

Collaboration Support for Joint Modeling (Jaco Appelman, Vlatka Hlupic, and Alan Serrano)

Cultural Issues In Collaboration Technology (Donsong Zhang, Doug Vogel, and Paul Benjamin Lowry)

Designing Collaboration Processes & Systems (Gert-Jan de Vreede, Robert O. Briggs, and Gwendolyn Kolfschoten)

Emergency Preparedness Information Systems ( Tung Bui, Murray Turoff, and Bartel Van de Walle)

Human Computer Interaction (Joe Valacich and John Wells)
Mobile Technologies and Collaboration (Joe Valacich and Clay Looney)
Negotiation Support Systems (Tung Bui and Melvin Shakun)

Social Cognition and Knowledge Creation Using Collaborative Technology (Souren Paul and Derek Nazareth)

Virtual Work, Teams, and Organizations (Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, Manju Ahuja, France Belanger)
 

Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies
The Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies mini-track encourages research contributions that deal with learning theories, cognition, tools and their development, enabling platforms, communication media, distance learning, supporting infrastructures, user experiences, research methods, social impacts, and/or measurable outcomes as they relate to the area of technology and its support of improving teaching and learning. Appropriate usage environments range from same-time/same-place to anytime/anywhere that increase interactions among the learners and the teacher/facilitator.

David H. Spencer (primary contact)

NJIT / Rutgers University

Newark, NJ  07102

Phone: (908)213-8908

    http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~dspencer

    dspencer@pegasus.rutgers.edu

Eric Santanen

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837

USA

Phone: (570) 577-3652

Fax: (570) 577-1338

    http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/esantane/

    esantane@bucknell.edu
 

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Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration

Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of corporate capital spending. With the progressing globalization, many of these investments are conducted across nations and throughout regions. Cross-system integration and collaboration technologies play crucial roles and often decide about investment success or failure. Academic literature has extensively focused on different aspects of IS/IT productivity, but not many researchers specifically examined the possible link between the international collaboration process and the payoffs from investments in IS/IT. Therefore, our intention is to specifically address this issue.

Possible contributions regarding the collaboration in global economy may include, but are not limited to the following:

·      Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration

·      Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity

·      Success factors of collaboration technologies

·      Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity

·      Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global economy

·      IS/IT investment evaluation

·      IS/IT productivity studies at the country, industry, firm, or project level

·      Comparative cross-country research

·      Country-specific case studies  

·      IS/IT offshoring /outsourcing into emerging economies

·      International IS/IT project management

·      Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity

·      IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation

·      Cross-border and cross-organizational Value-Chains and Value-Networks

Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (primary contact)

Oklahoma State University

Spears School of Business

344 North Hall

700 N. Greenwood Ave.

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106-0700

Phone: (918) 594-8506

Fax: (918) 594-8281 (fax)

    nicholas.romano@okstate.edu

James B. Pick

University of Redlands

School of Business

1200 East Colton Avenue

Redlands, CA 92373-0999

Phone: (909) 748-6261

Fax: (909) 335-5125 (fax)

    james_pick@redlands.edu

Narcyz Roztocki

State University of New York at New Paltz

School of Business

75 South Manheim Boulevard

New Paltz, NY 12561

Phone: (845) 257-2930

Fax: (845) 257-2947 (fax)

    roztockn@newpaltz.edu

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Collaboration Support for Joint Modeling

Joint modeling allows decision makers and stakeholders to assess opportunities and risks that proposed changes might bring to the organization. Jointly sketching or designing models can decrease cognitive distance, align perceptions, support learning, reduce cost and increase effectiveness, which in turn can help a project team or organization to achieve focus. Focused team effort results in higher productivity.

This minitrack aims to one of the key international platforms on which joint modeling can be discussed. We invite researchers from different scientific paradigms to contribute; it is our experience that mixture of views increases insight and understanding between participants in a conference. Thus, papers that contain original ideas, from any epistemological background, on the joint modeling, are welcome.

Some questions that address topics of interest:

• What is it that individuals and groups do when they try to jointly build models?

• What are the steps does a group have to go through when they built a model?

• What would be the value or benefits of integration and joint modeling?

• Can it be calculated?

• Can we ascertain that implementation will happen once a group of stakeholders agree to a model and its outcomes? If not, why not and what can we promise?

• How does a group converge to one best model or a port-folio of models?

• How can we support the collaborative integration of different models and modeling approaches?

Jaco Appelman (primary contact)

Delft University of Technology

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

P.O. Box 5015

2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

Phone: +31-15-2783709

Fax: +31-15-2783429

    j.h.appelman@tbm.tudelft.nl

Vlatka Hlupic

Brunel University

Department of Information Systems and Computing

Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Phone: +44-1895-816212

Fax: +44-1895-251686

    hlupicv@wmin.ac.uk

Alan Serrano

Brunel University

Department of Information Systems and Computing

Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Phone: +44-1895-266048

Fax: +44-1895-251686

    Alan.Edwin.Serrano-Rico@brunel.ac.uk
 

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Cultural Issues in Collaboration Technology 

Extensive research on collaboration technology (including computer mediated communication (CMC), group support systems (GSS), and groupware) has shown that their use can benefit both face-to-face (FtF) and distributed teams. With increasing globalization, competition, outsourcing, and offshoring in the world economy, teams within organizations more frequently include individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds, creating a pressing need to better understand how the interplay of culture and collaboration technology can influence group outcomes in implementing or adopting the technology appropriaPhone:y. However, a limitation of most research on collaboration is that it tends to focus on U.S. and Western cultures, leaving the issue of other cultures largely neglected.

This mini-track will mainly focus on the impact of culture on the design, development, use, and adoption of collaboration technology.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

·        Development of new cultural theories for collaboration technology

·        Cross-cultural effect on group decision making

·        Cultural issues in virtual teams and online communities

·        The adoption of collaboration technology in non-Western cultures

·        Cross-cultural issues associated with the management of distributed groups and/or projects

·        Cultural effects on e-Collaboration

·        Cultural competency integrated in computer-assisted collaborative learning

·        International collaboration

·        The effect of offshoring on distributed group work

·        Participating in offshoring projects with GSS and collaborative technology

·        Issues in homogeneous, heterogeneous, and diverse teams

Dongsong Zhang (primary contact)

Department of Information Systems

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21228

Phone: 410-455-2851

Fax: 410-455-1073

    zhangd@umbc.edu

Doug Vogel

City University of Hong Kong

Department of Information Systems

83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon

Hong Kong

    isdoug@is.cityu.edu.hk

Paul Benjamin Lowry

Information Systems Department
Debra and Kevin Rollins Center for e-Business

Marriott School

Brigham Young University

573 Tanner Building

Provo, UT 84602

Phone: (801) 422-1215

    Paul.Lowry@BYU.edu

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Designing Collaboration Processes & Systems 

Research shows that, under certain circumstances, groups using collaboration technologies can be far more productive than groups using other means to accomplish their tasks. However, experience in the field suggests that organizations do not tend to become self-sustaining with collaboration technologies until they incorporate them into their daily work practices, in support of mission critical tasks that are guided over and over again by the practitioners themselves, rather than facilitated by an outsider facilitator. The challenge for researchers and practitioners alike is to design sustainable processes and systems within and between organizations that allow people to collaborate successfully. The challenge has many dimensions, including a technical, a behavioral, an economical, and a political.

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the following issues can be discussed:

·      Methods & techniques to improve collaboration between co-located and distributed people, working synchronously or asynchronously.

·      The design, application, and evaluation of collaborative technologies that support (inter)-organizational collaboration and coordination.

·      Codification and reuse of collaboration practices

·      The creation of self-sustaining communities of practice for collaborative work practices

·      Theoretical foundations and practical approaches to model and design high quality collaborative work arrangements.

Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact)

University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology

Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis

College of Information Science and Technology

The Peter Kiewit Institute

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha NE 68182-0392

Phone:  402-554-2026

Fax:  402-554-3400

    gdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

Robert O. Briggs

Director of Academic Affairs

Institute for Collaboration Science

Roskens Hall, Rm 512B
University of Nebraska at Omaha

1130 E. Helen Street

Omaha NE 68182

Phone:  402-554-2972

   rbriggs@mail.unomaha.edu
 

Gwendolyn Kolfschoten

Delft University of Technology

PO Box 5015

2600 GA Delft
THE NETHERLANDS

    g.l.kolfschoten@tbm.tudelft.nl
 

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Emergency Preparedness Information Systems
Any aspect of the planning, training, mitigation, detection, alerting, response, recovery, and assessment  to emergencies related to the  design, development, deployment, operation, or evaluation of Emergency Preparedness and Management Information Systems are appropriate for this minitrack.  The emphasis is on the tools and functionality to aid the humans and/or agents involve in the total system.  Equally welcome also are papers that focus on requirements for this environment and/or the impact or relationship of such systems to the behavior of the individuals or organizations involved.

Papers that have a primary focus on the underlying technology or hardware of computers, networks, sensors, mobile devices and their improvements in such areas as throughput, accuracy, and security, should be directed to other appropriate sessions.  An exception might be any special purpose input/output device for users of such systems that aid in meeting user requirements.

Tung Bui (primary contact)

College of Business

2404 Maile Way, E303

Honolulu HI 96822 USA

Phone:  808-956-5565

Fax:  808-956-9889

    tung.bui@hawaii.edu

    http://ec.cba.hawaii.edu

Murray Turoff
Information Systems Department
New Jersey Institute of Technology
    turoff@njit.edu
    http://is.njit.edu/turoff

Bartel Van de Walle
Information Systems and Management Department
Tilburg University
    bartel@uvt.nl
    http://www.tilburguniversity.nl
 

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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The aim of this mini-track is to provide a forum for HCI researchers to exchange a broad and comprehensive range of issues related to the design, development, and assessment of human-computer interaction.  Appropriate papers for the HCI mini-track will draw on the broadest range of research methodologies including developmental, conceptualization, theorization, case study, hermeneutic, action research, experimentation, survey, simulation, and so on.

Topics include but not limited to:

• The behavioral, cognitive, and motivational aspects of human/computer interaction

• User task analysis and modeling

• The analysis, design, development, evaluation, and use of information systems

• Guidelines and standards for interface design

• User interface design and evaluation of the Web for
  B2B, B2C,C2C E-Commerce
  Group collaboration
  Negotiation and auction

• Design and evaluation issues for small screen devices and M-Commerce

• Interface issues in the development of other new interaction technologies

• Information system usability engineering

• The impact of interfaces/information technology on attitudes, behavior, performance, perception, and productivity

• Implications and consequences of technological change on individuals, groups, society, and socio-technical units

• Issues related to the elderly, the young and special needs populations

• Issues in teaching HCI courses

• Other human factors issues related to HCI

• Interface design for group and other collaborative environments

• User / Developer experiences with particular interfaces, design environments, or devices

Joe Valacich (primary contact)

College of Business and Economics

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-4743

Phone: (509) 335-1112

    jsv@wsu.edu
 

John Wells

College of Business and Economics

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-4743

Phone: (509) 335-7112

    wellsjd@wsu.edu
 

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Mobile Technologies and Collaboration

The Mobile Technologies and Collaboration (MTC) mini-track will focus on the rapidly changing and evolving use of mobile computing technologies for human-to-human and human-to-machine interaction, mobile commerce (m-commerce) and collaboration. A broad range of topics and research approaches will be examined within the MTC mini-track. We are particularly interested in those topics that are likely to promote discussion within the sessions. These topics include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual/theory development papers that are well focused, logically argued, and have the potential to define the scope of MTC research and practice;

• Experimental papers that are theoretically motivated, yet whose findings have the potential to interest practitioners;

• Field studies that develop new insight that has the potential to change current practice or lead to new theories;

• System design and development papers that move beyond the description of systems and their use by building new concepts for the design and use of future systems in a variety of settings;

• User adoption, acceptance, and diffusion for specific technologies, environments and / or applications; and

• User experiences that describe the deployment and management of MTC environments in education (e.g., wireless campus), organizations (e.g., mobile wireless workforce), and society (e.g., wireless shopping malls).

Joe Valacich  (primary contact)

College of Business and Economics
Washington State University
PO Box 6447243
Pullman WA 99164-4743
Phone: 509-335-1112
Fax: 509-335-4743
    jsv@wsu.edu

Clay Looney

School of Business Administration

University of Montana

32 Campus Drive

Missoula, MT 59812