collaborative anlaysis need your participation!
Hi everybody, I am currently working on a research for developing a computational model to analyze collaborative activities in AME. Our study is part of on-going research in the Reflective Living Group that aims to support collaborative work in AME. Your participation in our study is valuable and the participation itself is interesting and beneficial to you – it will reveal the collaborative patterns from otherwise forgettable activities conducted by you and your colleagues.
How the study will benefit you and AME?
The study seeks to support the collaborative awareness in a complex distributed collaborative environment like AME. Collaborative awareness involves knowing when my colleagues are available or busy, what activities they are engaged in, who collaborate with whom, and how the collaboration changes. Through participating our study it is possible to find new opportunities for collaboration and people with different domain knowledge to collaborate with, or review personal, group-level or AME-wide collaborative patterns. You might check out our prototype interactive collaborative analysis at http://archival-pc.dhcp.asu.edu:8080/rhythmviz/ with your login/password identical to the AME Eventory or Evaluation system. Please contact us if you have any problem to access the system.
What we need from you?
There are two steps of your participation: (i) contribute event data, and (ii) participate in further user study to give feedback on the analysis. You are free to participate in only the first step or decide to join the second step evaluation. Our data is collected from two sources:
- Eventory – a web media archiving system developed by AME Reflective Living Group (http://ame5.hc.asu.edu:3000/), and
- Personal calendar feeds: people who use other calendar services such as outlook, google calendar, Apple iCal, etc. can also contribute their collaborative data by sharing some public events from their calendars. Once the participant provides the calendar feed URL, our system subscribes and continues archives the events the participant created by using his or her own calendar system.
There are now more than 14 faculty and students contribute their collaborative data by using Eventory to manage events, such as project kickoff meeting, regular research meetings, etc., and more than 5 faculty and students provide calendar feeds of public events in their outlook / google / iCal calendars. We aim to collect data from more diverse AME members including faculty, student and staff from any application / research areas. You can have opportunity to voluntarily contribute data by either (1) using the Eventory to create, explore or manage your events, or (2) providing us your subscribable calendar feeds. There are few simple steps to share your calendar feed, depending on the calendar system you use. We will provide a brief guidance for google calendar / outlook / Apple iCal users.
How to participate in our study? (quick guide)
If you are interested or considering to contribute your data, please reply this email with following information:
- How will you prefer to contribute your events, please select either (a) using Eventory or (b) sharing personal calendar feeds? We will contact you after getting your replay.
- Are you interested in participated in later user study to give us your feedback about the accuracy or usability of the analysis?
After getting your reply, we will give you a consent form to sign. Note: Your participation is completely voluntary and you are free to terminate your participation at any time. (For personal calendar feeds, we will unsubscribe your calendar when you send us a notice for termination) The results are used in academic purpose. Your privacy is concerned in the way we only use public events and events having more than two AME members. Your event data will be visible to other participants and the research team, but will be anonymized in the publication. Please feel free to give your suggestions or feedback on additional concerns.
We appreciate your contribution and are looking forward to
your participation in our study.
Thanks,
Yu-Ru Lin