[AISWorld] HICSS 2013 - CFP: Processes and Technologies for Small and Large Team Collaboration Minitrack

[Imed Boughzala]

HICSS-46 Call for papers for the minitrack on:

"PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL AND LARGE TEAM COLLABORATION"

Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track

of the Forty-Sixth Annual

Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)

Maui, HI - January 7-10, 2013

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

 

 

Papers are invited for the minitrack on "DESIGNING, DEPLOYING, AND
EVALUATING TEAM COLLABORATION TOOLS, PROCESSES, AND TECHNIQUES" as part of
the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). 

 

Recent data show that collaboration is a key driver of performance in
organizations. The impact of collaboration on organizational performance is
more critical than strategic orientation or market and technological
turbulence. Yet successful collaboration does not come without difficulty.
Groups and teams need to overcome collaboration challenges such as
groupthink, dominance, lack of efficiency and lack of focus. Successful
collaboration requires support based on purposeful guidance and
interventions to create groups and teams, to design and deploy processes, to
design and deploy technology, to support leaders or facilitators, and to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of information processing. The
challenge for researchers and practitioners alike is to design sustainable
processes and systems within and between organizations that allow people,
groups and teams to collaborate successfully. This challenge has many
dimensions, including a technical, a behavioral, a social, an emotional, an
economical, and a political. This minitrack invites papers that address the
design and deployment of collaboration processes and systems within and
between organizations, groups, and teams.

 

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

1.       The application, and evaluation of collaboration support
technologies; G(D)SS, Groupware, CSCW, meeting support technology and Web
2.0 technology.

2.       Facilitation methods, techniques, patterns, and thinkLets to
improve (a)synchronous collaboration between co-located and distributed
people, teams, or groups.

3.       Theoretical foundations and design methodologies for collaborative
work practices and technologies.

4.       Human collaboration with artificial agents and the evaluation of
computer systems as team members, including agent-based support for
individual decision makers

5.       Automation of collaborative processes and agent-based support for
group facilitation

6.       Techniques, systems, and technologies to support mass collaboration
such as crowdsourcing, and collective intelligence

7.       Maturity models and other evaluation models for assessing team
collaboration and performance.

8.       Collaboration Engineering and the design, codification and reuse of
work practices and pattern languages for group collaboration to create
self-sustaining collaboration support in organizations.

 

Thus, papers are welcome that contain original ideas on systematic modeling,
analysis, design and evaluation of group collaboration processes and
systems. There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack:
this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to
research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to
studies from the lab, from the field, or developmental in nature. 

 

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not
limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

 

Collaboration support techniques, systems and processes

.         Understanding patterns of collaboration, e.g.:

.         Studies on the effectiveness and measurement of different
techniques for producing predictable patterns of collaboration:  generation
(brainstorming), reduction (selecting which ideas are worthy of more
attention), clarification (creation of shared meaning) organization,
evaluation, and consensus building

.         Creativity techniques

.         Reusability, transferability and predictability of collaboration
processes

.         ThinkLets, best practices and patterns - development, field
experiences, laboratory evaluation of codified facilitation interventions
that produce a predictable pattern of collaboration 

.         Further advances of and experiences with Collaboration Engineering
approaches

 

Design approaches for collaboration processes systems & technologies

.         Theories, guidelines and strategies for designing collaboration
processes, technologies and systems

.         Enhancing robustness, flexibility and longevity of these systems,
processes and technologies

.         Modeling techniques and frameworks to capture collaboration
process designs, facilitation interventions and information exchange in
groups

.         Theoretical foundations of  productivity, creativity,
satisfaction, and other constructs relating to mission-critical tasks for
which collaboration processes and systems must be designed 

.         Proof of concepts - examples of breakthrough collaboration
technologies, processes and systems e.g.

.         Group processes for requirements specification & analysis

.         Collaborative risk management

.         Focus groups

.         Delphi processes

.         Collaborative planning

.         Strategy building

.         Evaluation & assessment

.         Collaborative writing

 

Collaboration Technology Adoption, Adaptation, and Transition

.         Training work group members and work group leaders

.         Change management in collaborative contexts

.         Coping with resistance to change in collaborative contexts

.         Success factors for collaborative technology diffusion

.         Theories for technology acceptance, use, and diffusion

.         Studies on the efficacy of interventions intended to introduce
collaborative technologies in an organization

 

Facilitation of group work

.         Predictable effects of facilitation interventions 

.         Styles of facilitation 

.         Embedding facilitation support in groupware technology

.         Facilitation of dispersed group processes

.         Approaches to training facilitation skills to novices and
practitioners

.         Facilitation guidelines for different socio-cultural environments

.         Approaches to capturing (un)successful facilitation techniques
from expert facilitators

.         Ethical issues around facilitation

 

MINITRACK CHAIRS:

Gert-Jan de Vreede

University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology

The Center for Collaboration Science

e-mail: gdevreede at mail.unomaha.edu 

 

Imed Boughzala

Department of Information Systems

Telecom Business School

Institut TELECOM

email: imed.boughzala at it-sudparis.eu  

 

Douglas C. Derrick

University of Nebraska at Omaha

College of Information Science and Technology

e-mail: dcderrick at unomaha.edu 

 

The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas,
research results, development activities, and applications among
academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The
conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of
accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished
guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among
the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a
workshop-like setting.

 

Instructions for submitting papers:

1.       Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including
title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system
available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors' names and
affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.

2.       Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper
should contain original material and not be previously published or
currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3.       Provide the required information to the review system such as
title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).

4.       The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max)
300-word abstract.

 

DEADLINES:

.         Any time:                 Optional abstracts may be submitted to
the Minitrack Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to
receive instructions on submitting a full paper.

.         June 15:                   Full papers uploaded in the directory
of the appropriate minitrack.

.         August 15:               Notification of accepted papers mailed to
authors.

.         September 15:          Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready,
uploaded; author(s) must register by this time.

 

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:

Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact)

University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology

The Center for Collaboration Science

e-mail: gdevreede at unomaha.edu

 

 

 

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