[AISWorld] TOC: International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011

[Ned Kock]

The contents of the latest issue of:

 

International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1548-3673 EISSN: 1548-3681

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijec

 

Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock, Texas A&M International University, USA

 

PAPER ONE

 

A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally
Distributed Organizations

 

Eldar Sultanow (University of Potsdam, Germany) 

Edzard Weber (University of Potsdam, Germany) 

Sean Cox (Mathematicians Anonymous, USA)

 

Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has
consistently faced the challenge of intense awareness extensively more than
locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in
conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of
each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices,
where social interaction is necessary to share and locate essential
information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the
exigency for easy routes where personnel can navigate and access pertinent
information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and
context-sensitive way. Even as awareness has become a more pressing topic,
extensive disagreement still remains concerning how any type of transparency
can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces an
awareness model to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers
using semantic networks, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Web3D.
Ultimately, the model presented is used for an evaluation from a business
organization's perspective.

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49661  

 

PAPER TWO

 

An Exploratory Study of How Technology Supports Communication in
Multilingual Groups

 

Milam Aiken (University of Mississippi, USA) 

Jianfeng Wang (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) 

Linwu Gu (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) 

Joseph Paolillo (University of Mississippi, USA)

 

In this paper, the authors study how new technology can support multilingual
groups. Their results show that no significant difference was found between
group members' comprehension of contributed comments and their stated
minimum acceptable understanding. However, comprehension of relevant
comments was higher than that for off-topic text, indicating that the
sharing of important information was achieved. Further, reading
comprehension tests of translations from Chinese, German, Hindi, Korean,
Malay, and Spanish to English show that, except for Hindi, the automatic
translations achieve accuracies that are acceptable for graduate studies at
a university in the United States.

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49662  

 

PAPER THREE

 

The Virtual Individual Education Plan (IEP) Team: Using Online Collaboration
to Develop a Behavior Intervention Plan

 

Robyn Catagnus (Arcadia University, USA) 

Donald Hantula (Temple University, USA)

 

A team of professional educators in a private school for children with
disabilities (a Virtual IEP Team) used an online platform to collaborate and
produce a behavior intervention plan for a student. The collaboration was
effective and efficient; the plan was produced in 9 days, rather than the
customary 3-6 weeks. Qualitative data yielded four major themes: beneficial
augmentation, reflective practice, barriers to change, and improved
interactions. Quantitative results showed that although end user
satisfaction was moderate, they produced a successful behavior intervention
plan that showed positive changes in both the teacher and student behavior.
An increase of in-person staff discussion as a result of online dialogue was
a unique finding in this study warranting further investigation. Now that
federal (U.S.) education law has changed to allow technologically mediated
IEP meetings, the Virtual IEP Team may serve as a model for more efficient
use of education professionals' time.

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49663  

 

PAPER FOUR

 

Measuring Collective Cognition in Online Collaboration Venues

 

Paul Dwyer (Willamette University, USA)

 

By monitoring online conversations, organizations can receive value from the
intellectual activity of their most interested constituents as they engage
in problem solving and ideation. However, since intergroup dynamics often
hinders people from optimizing collaboration, it should be measured and
monitored for quality. Current metrics assess collaborative value solely
from the number of collaborators, assuming that differences between
individuals can be ignored. This study found that assumption to be wrong by
identifying three distinct collaborator segments that strongly differ in the
timing of their participation and in the variety of ideas they introduce.
Therefore, a new metric is proposed that takes into account the diverse
value individuals add. This new measure is correlated with existing measures
only in those infrequent situations when collaboration productivity is
maximized.

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49664  

 

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) in your institution's
library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated
"InfoSci-Journals" database:
http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx  

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Mission of IJeC:

 

The mission of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) is to
publish papers that address the design and implementation of e-collaboration
technologies, assess the behavioral impacts of e-collaboration technologies
on individuals and groups, and present theoretical considerations on links
between the use of e-collaboration technologies and behavioral patterns.
This journal emphasizes technologies that include Web-based chat tools,
Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools, e-mail, listservs, collaborative
writing tools, group decision support systems, teleconferencing suites,
workflow automation systems, and document management technologies.

 

Coverage of IJeC:

 

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the
following:

 

Analysis of different research methods and their impact on the study of
e-collaboration technologies in organizations 

Collaborative writing tools 

Comprehensive reviews of previous studies on e-collaboration technologies in
organizations 

Design and evaluation of asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) in
organizational setting 

Design and evaluation of intelligent e-collaboration technologies in
organizational settings 

Design, implementation, and assessment of e-business solutions that include
e-collaboration features 

E-collaboration technologies impact on individuals and society 

E-collaboration technologies impact on knowledge management and
organizational learning 

E-collaboration technologies support for distributed process reengineering
and process improvement 

E-collaboration technologies support for quality certification programs 

E-collaboration technologies support for the creation of virtual teams and
virtual organizations 

E-mail 

Listservs 

Organizational and national culture as moderating factors in the adoption
and use of e-collaboration technologies in organizations 

Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools

Web-based chat tools

 

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijec.

 

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock at nedkock at tamiu.edu

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