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<p class=MsoNormal>The contents of the latest issue of:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ISSN: 1548-3673 EISSN: 1548-3681<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.igi-global.com/ijec<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock, Texas A&M International
University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER ONE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in
Globally Distributed Organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Eldar Sultanow (University of Potsdam, Germany) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Edzard Weber (University of Potsdam, Germany) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sean Cox (Mathematicians Anonymous, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49661
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER TWO<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>An Exploratory Study of How Technology Supports Communication
in Multilingual Groups<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Milam Aiken (University of Mississippi, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jianfeng Wang (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Linwu Gu (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Joseph Paolillo (University of Mississippi, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49662
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER THREE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Virtual Individual Education Plan (IEP) Team: Using
Online Collaboration to Develop a Behavior Intervention Plan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Robyn Catagnus (Arcadia University, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Donald Hantula (Temple University, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49663
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER FOUR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Measuring Collective Cognition in Online Collaboration
Venues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul Dwyer (Willamette University, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49664
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mission of IJeC:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Coverage of IJeC:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not
limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Analysis of different research methods and their impact on
the study of e-collaboration technologies in organizations <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Collaborative writing tools <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Comprehensive reviews of previous studies on e-collaboration
technologies in organizations <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Design and evaluation of asynchronous learning networks
(ALNs) in organizational setting <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Design and evaluation of intelligent e-collaboration
technologies in organizational settings <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Design, implementation, and assessment of e-business
solutions that include e-collaboration features <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-collaboration technologies impact on individuals and
society <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-collaboration technologies impact on knowledge management
and organizational learning <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-collaboration technologies support for distributed process
reengineering and process improvement <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-collaboration technologies support for quality
certification programs <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-collaboration technologies support for the creation of
virtual teams and virtual organizations <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-mail <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Listservs <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Organizational and national culture as moderating factors in
the adoption and use of e-collaboration technologies in organizations <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Web-based chat tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript
submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijec.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock at nedkock@tamiu.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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