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Collaboration Systems and
Technology Track

Co-chair:  Robert Briggs
College of Business Administration, Roskens Hall 512B
University of Nebraska at Omaha
60th & Dodge Streets
Omaha NE 68182
Tel: (402) 554-2972 or  (402) 554-2303 Dept
Fax: (402) 554-3747
Email: rbriggs@mail.unomaha.edu

Co-chair:  Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.
Eller School of Business, Rm 430HH   
University of Arizona
1130 E. Helen St.
Tucson AZ  85721
Tel:  (520) 621-4475
Fax: (520) 621-3918
Email: jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu

 

Minitracks
 

Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies
(Eric Santanen and David Spencer)

Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT
(Nicholas Romano, James Pick, and Narcyz Roztocki)

Designing Collaboration Processes and Systems
(Bob Briggs, Gert-Jan deVreede, and Gwendolyn Kolfschoten)

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

Human Computer Interaction (Joe Valacich and John Wells)

Measuring Collaborative Technologies and Processes
(Bruce Reinig, John Murphy, and Alanah Davis)

Mobile Technologies and Collaboration 
(Joe Valacich and Clay Looney)

Negotiation Support Systems
(Tung Bui * and Mel Shakun)

Social Networks and Collaboration
 (Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Andrew Hargadon and Donald Steiny)

 

Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies

This Minitrack 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. 

In this respect, we intend to include all aspects of teaching and learning technologies from the original inceptions of theories and tools through the measurement of learning outcomes. On an increasing basis, these types of activities take place in collaborative settings, both academic and industrial, thus providing a natural fit within the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track.

 Additional details and information may be found online at: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/esantane/atlt.html

Eric Santanen  (primary contact)

Bucknell University

Lewisburg  PA 17837

Phone: (570) 577-3652

Fax: (570) 577-1338

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

David H. Spencer

NJIT / Rutgers University

Newark  NJ  07102

Phone: (908)213-8908

    Email:  dspencer@njit.edu
    http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~dspencer

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Collaboration  Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT

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

We plan to encourage both empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) and theoretical papers.  Accepted papers will be encouraged for submission to a special issue of International Journal of Electronic Collaboration (IJeC).

Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (primary contact)
Spears School of Business
Oklahoma State University
344 North Hall
700 N. Greenwood Ave.
Tulsa  OK  74106-0700
Tel: (918) 594-8506
Fax: (918) 594-8281
    Email: nicholas.romano@okstate.edu

James B. Pick
School of Business
University of Redlands
1200 East Colton Avenue
Redlands CA 92373-0999
Tel: (909) 748-8781
Fax: (909) 335-5125
    Email: james_pick@redlands.edu

Narcyz Roztocki
School of Business
SUNY New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard
New Paltz NY 12561
Tel: (845) 257-2935
Fax:  (845) 257-2947
    Email:  roztockn@newpaltz.edu

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Designing Collaboration Processes and Systems

This Minitrack focuses on:

1.  Methods & techniques to improve (a)synchronous collaboration between co-located and distributed
     people.
2.  The design, application, and evaluation of collaborative technologies that support (inter)-organizational
     collaboration and coordination.
3.  Codification and reuse of collaboration practices
4.  The creation of self-sustaining communities of practice for collaborative work practices
5.  Theoretical foundations and practical approaches to model and design high quality collaborative work
     arrangements.

Robert O. Briggs (primary contact)
Director of Academic Affairs, Institute for Collaboration Science
Department of Business Administration
Roskens Hall, Rm 512B
University of Nebraska at Omaha (& Delft University of Technology)
Omaha NE 68182
Tel:  (402) 554-2972
Fax: (402) 554-3747
    Email: rbriggs@mail.unomaha.edu

Gert-Jan de Vreede
Director Institute for Collaboration Science
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis
University of Nebraska at Omaha (& Delft University of Technology)
1110 South 67^th Street
Omaha NE 68182-0116
Tel: : (402) 554-2026 
Fax: (402) 554-3400
    E-mail: gdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten
Department of Systems Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 5
2628BX, Delft
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel:  +31 (0) 152783567
Fax: +31 (0) 152783429
    Email: g.l.kolfschoten@tudelft.nl

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Emergency Response 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 involved in the total system.  Equally welcome are papers that focus on requirements for this environment and/or the impact or relationship of suchsystems 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.

Outstanding papers in this mini-track will be invited to submit expanded versions for Journal of Information Technology, Theory, and Applications or for the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Tung Bui (primary contact)
Shidler College of Business
2404 Maile Way, E303
Honolulu HI 96822
Tel. 1-808-956-5565
Fax. 1-808-956-9889
    Email:  tungb@hawaii.edu
    http://ec.cba.hawaii.edu

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

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

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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The aim of this Minitrack 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.   Given the diverse goals of this mini-track, there are a plethora of appropriate topics for papers; possible topics include, but are 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

Washington State University

P. O. Box  6447243

Pullman WA 99164-4743

Tel: (509) 335-1112

Fax:: (509) 335-4743

    Email: jsv@wsu.edu
 

John Wells

College of Business

Washington State University

Pullman  WA 99164-4743

Tel:  (509) 335-7112

   Email:  wellsjd@wsu.edu
 

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Measuring Collaborative Technologies and Processes

Collaboration technologies are seeing widespread adoption and implementation at all levels of organizations.  Examples include collaborative tools and processes to support short-term, ad-hoc projects, long-term project teams, and even large scale inter-organizational systems such as extranets and wide area networks.  However, it is often difficult to determine whether a deployed system or work practice is yielding the desired results. 

We therefore seek papers that do one or more of the following list. Papers that address these issues are encouraged to submit to this Minitrack.

(1) reliably and accurately measure variables that instantiate the theoretical constructs and propositions supporting implementations,
(2) validate instruments to measure such constructs,
(3) identify and measure experimental manipulations that impact the outcomes of collaboration initiatives
(4) study the outcomes of implementation of collaboration technologies and processes. 

Bruce Reinig (primary contact)
Department of Information and Decision Systems
College of Business Administration
San Diego State University
San Diego CA 92182-8234
Tel: (619) 594-3032   Fax: (619) 594-3675
    Email: breinig@mail.sdsu.edu

John D. Murphy
College of Information Systems and Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha NE  68182-0116
Tel: (402) 554-2084
    Email: jmurphy@mail.unomaha.edu

Alanah J. Davis
College of Information Systems and Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha NE  68182-0116
Tel: (402) 554-2084
    Email: alanahdavis@mail.unomaha.edu

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Mobile Technologies and Collaboration
 

This Minitrack 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. 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

Washington State University

P. O. Box  6447243

Pullman WA 99164-4743

Tel: (509) 335-1112

Fax:: (509) 335-4743

    Email: jsv@wsu.edu

Clay Looney

School of Business Administration

University of Montana

32 Campus Drive

Missoula MT 59812