CWE08

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  • CWE08 is the Collaborative Working Environements (CWE) track held at ICE'2008, Lisbon, 23 - 25 June 2008
  • Featuring special sessions, workshops, training and demonstrations dedicated to CWE
  • Coordinator: marcpallot
  • Organised by: FP6 IST CWE projects:
  • ICE'2008 final Programme PDF format

Contents

[edit] Special Sessions

[edit] S1 Special Session: "Towards a Digital Factory solution" 

 Organised by:  DiFac Project
 Chair: Edna Pasher, co-Chair: Myrna Flores
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 3, 13H30
 Scientific Papers: 4

Abstract

DiFac (Digital Factory for Human-Oriented Production System) is an IST research project (FP6-2005-IST-5-035079) funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme priority called “Collaborative Working Environments”. The aim of the project is to develop an innovative, collaborative manufacturing environment (CME) for the next generation of digital factories to support the competitiveness of Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Within a digital factory, virtualised environments facilitate the sharing of factory resources, manufacturing information and knowledge, and support collaborative design, planning, production, management and training among different participants. DiFac creates a basic framework to support group work in an immersive and interactive way for these manufacturing activities. DiFac will be more than just a software product, as it will be composed of software, methodologies and guidelines in an integrated suite.

Scientific Papers' presentations

  • SS1-IP1: "A virtual and augmented reality approach to collaborative product design and demonstration" K.Smparounis, D.Mavrikios, M.Pappas, V.Xanthakis, G.P.Viganò, K.Pentenrieder
  • SS1-IP2: "Innovative VR environment for factory and process planning: DiFac", C. Constantinescu, M. Dürr, K. Botond, M. Sacco
  • SS1-IP3: "Approach and development of an innovative tool for integration of immersive devices in virtual manufacturing environments: Immersive Integrator", M. Dürr, H. Eichelberger, F. Decker
  • SS1-IP4: "The contributions of Presence and Ergonomics to the Digital Factory", C. Redaelli, G. Lawson, M. Santopietro, M. D'Cruz, M. Sacco

[edit] S2 Special session: "Rural Living Labs: Open innovation in rural settings" 

 Organised by:  Collaboration@Rural Project
 Chair: Laura Zurita, Atos Origin, Spain
 Co-Chair: Mariano Navarro, Tragsa group, Spain
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 3, 8H30
 Scientific Papers: 5

Abstract

This session will show the results of the work in the project C@R. C@R project is an Integrated Project, funded by the IST programme of the European Commission's 6th Framework with a budget of EUR 15 million and 33 project partners. C@R aims to boost the use of ICT to promote rural development. According to this strategic goal, C@R will identify, develop and validate technological responses to actual barriers jeopardizing the sustainable development in rural areas. The project works in 7 Living labs in different countries, and manages different kind of activities in the rural environment, including traditional and new economic activities in rural areas. The project is developing products and services in different sectors, This session will present the results and findings in the framework of the project: the products and services developed, but also the methodologies developed in the project.

Scientific Papers' presentations

  • SS2 IP1: "Collaborative effort in the Frascati Living Lab: ", Fabio Bertoldi, Luigi Fusco, Alessandro Rossi, Elisabeth Schoepfer,
  • SS2 IP2: "Enhancing an Open Service Oriented Architecture with Collaborative Functions for Rural Areas", Rudi de Louw, Jörg Dörflinger, Ganna Frankova, Antonio Lucientes, Mariano Navarro, Tomás Robles
  • SS2 IP3: "Living Labs Fostering Open Innovation and Rural Development: Methodology and Results", Javier García, Hans Schaffers, Vilmos Bilicki, Christian Merz, Monica Valenzuela
  • SS2 IP4: "Creation of the first Living Lab in Poland: how geographical information can support governance of outlying regions", Adam Turowiec, Anna Zajac
  • SS2 IP5: "Rural Living Labs: User Involvement Activities", Laura Zurita

[edit] S3 Special Session: "Globalisation Strategies and Collaborative Work Environments" 

 Organised by:  New_Global Project
 Chair: Hans Schaffers, ESoCE-Net, Co-Chair: Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University of St. Gallen
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 5, 8H30
 Scientific Papers: 2

Abstract

Globalisation issues are in the heart of EU policies regarding integration, trade, employment and social affairs, and the information society. New collaborative working environments (CWE) driven by strong technological integration and application of ICTs enable companies to exploit global networking. The New Global study (http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/New_Global) explores how globalisation affects the way companies are operating and investigates how even small and medium-sized companies can respond and anticipate to globalisation forces, and how such companies may extend their business opportunities in a beneficial way by establishing new collaborative working environments. The objective of this special session is to identify and discuss the policies and strategies of companies, including small and medium-sized businesses, to cope with the challenges of globalisation and in particular how collaborative work environments may contribute to such strategies. The workshop will bring together researchers, business representatives and researchers active in this area of interest. During the workshop, results of a business survey and of a case studies program will be presented.

Scientific Papers' Presentations

  • SS3 IP1: "The Role of Collaborative Working Environments in Enabling Global Business", Hans Schaffers, Karsten Gareis, Katarina Stanoevska, Matti Vartiainen, Marcel Bijlsma
  • SS3 IP2: "Data Security Issues in Global Collaboration", Geoff Skinner

Other Invited Presentations

  • "Introduction to the New Global project", Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva and Hans Schaffers
  • "SMEs experience with global virtual collaboration: results from a survey and case studies in Europe", Katarina Slaboevska-Slabeva
  • "Globalisation, business collaboration and value networks: the international business dimension", Christian Merz
  • "Cross-cultural aspects of collaboration and global working; Results of the Importnet project", Ron Jamieson

[edit] S4 Special Session: "Collaborative Virtual Engineering for SMEs" 

 Organised by:  CoVES Project
 Chair: Mehmet Kürümlüoglu
 Co-chair: Kazi Abdul Samad
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 4, 10H30
 Scientific Papers: 4

Abstract

As successful SMEs extend their reach and scope in a globalising world, they face the challenge of maintaining their key competitive strengths: agility, creativity and decision speed. Managers or specialist engineers are increasingly on business trips and often cannot be reached for idea generation, problem solving or decision making. Paradoxically, the problem of remote collaboration is further intensified by the growing use of applications like CAx, PDM, ERP or groupware systems. These systems and their data are usually not available remotely and thus the modern nomad does not have the basis for meaningful collaboration and decision making which leads to delays, quality problems and lost opportunities. The main goal of CoVES is to develop a flexible collaboration environment with access to rich data and application for nomadic professionals and partners targeted towards SMEs. This session presents prototypical results including the characteristic requirements of SMEs, current tools and practices for mobile working, the targeted technical architecture, an industrial use case as well as the environment for evaluation and optimisation. The session is concluded with a live demonstration of the platform prototype and an open panel discussion.

Scientific Papers

  • SS4-IP1: "End-User Requirements", Mehmet Kürümlüoglu, Judith Finger, Jochen Eichert, Fraunhofer IAO/Universität Stuttgart - IAT, Dr. Abdul Samad Kazi, VTT, Dr. Burak Sari, CeTIM
  • SS4-IP2: "Technical Architecture of CoVES", Dirk Langenberg, Fraunhofer IPK, Dr. Abdul Samad Kazi, VTT, Jerzy Dryndos, Logotec
  • SS4-IP3: "Balkan Use Case with Enterprixe", Dr. Abdul Samad Kazi, VTT, Osman Balkan; Balkan, Tapio Ristimaki, Enterprixe, Mehmet Kürümlüoglu, Judith Finger, Jochen Eichert; Fraunhofer IAO/Universität, Stuttgart - IAT
  • SS4-IP4: "Living Lab Approach and Methodology", Burak Sari, CeTIM, Mehmet Kürümlüoglu, Judith Finger, Jochen Eichert, Fraunhofer IAO/Universität Stuttgart - IAT, Node, CiRP, VDC

Demonstration of prototype

Open panel discussion

[edit] S5 Special Session: "The Role of Exploratory Environments within Living Labs" 

 Organised by: Presence & Innovation, ENSAM Lab and  ECOSPACE Project
 Chair: Prof. Simon Richir, ENSAM
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 7, 8H30
 Scientific Papers: 3

Abstract This special session is addressing the research side within Living Labs in illustrating the role of various exploratory environments to support real life experiments and user experience prototyping.

Scientific Papers

  • SS5 IP1: "Anthropocentric approach in the design of Virtual Environments for SMEs", Emilie Loup-Escande, Hervé Christofol & Simon Richir
  • SS5 IP2: "Shared Workspace and Group Blogging Experimentation within a Living Lab Approach", Marc Pallot, Simon Richir, Henri Samier
  • SS5 IP3: "A 'Front End Innovation' system to impulse disruptive innovation projects – a development in pharmaceutical industry", Anthony Delamarre, Hervé Christofol Henri Samier

[edit] S6 Special Session: "Collaborative Web Environments" 

 Organised by:  ECOSPACE Project
 Coordinated by: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) 
 Chair: Wolfgang Appelt
 Co-chair: Wolfgang Gräther
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 7, 10H30
 Scientific Papers: 4 (to be submitted as full papers)

Abstract This session aims to bring together experts from research and industry who share interest in the study and design of Collaborative Web Environments.


Scientific Papers

  • SS6 IP1: Antonia Martínez-Carreras, Antonio Ruiz-Martínez, Daniel V. Fernández and Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta: "Towards Business Processes with dynamic search of services in Collaborative Working Environment"
  • SS6 IP2: Peyman Nasirifard and Vassilios Peristeras: "Annotation-Based Access Control for e-Professionals"
  • SS6 IP3: Ivan Tomek, Rick Giles: "Collaboration in the Age of Augmented Reality"
  • SS6 IP4: Christopher Mumme, Hannes Olivier, Niels Pinkwart: "A Framework for Interaction Analysis and Feedback in Collaborative Virtual Worlds"

[edit] S7 Special Session: "Living Labs in Ubiquitous Computing Cluster Programme in Finland" 

 Organised by: 
 Chair: Markku Paukkunen, Prizztech Ltd, Satakunta Center of Expertise, Tiedepuisto 4, 28600 Pori, markku.paukkunen@prizz.fi
 Co-chair:Juha Miettinen, Technology Centre Hermia Ltd, Hermiankatu 1, 33720 Tampere, juha.miettinen@hermia.fi  
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 1, 15H30
 Scientific Papers: 4 (to be submitted as full paper)

Abstract

The goal of our session is to show how the Public-Private-Partnersip appears in the national program of Expertise in different sectors of Finnish society. In the presentations we will show some detailed cases about the Innovation system in Finland. Our space is wide, our examples comes on the other hand from free-time environment and on the other hand from the social sector and especially there of the detailed case of the expression of problem “How to guarantee a dignified ageing for European citizens”. We will present cases from the national level and the very detailed point of local operation.

Scientific Papers

  • SS7 IP1: UBI-cluster as a part of the Finnish Innovation System, Juha Miettinen, Technology Centre Hermia Ltd
  • SS7 IP2:Case Karjaranta: New Service Concept for Independent Living, Jukka Mäkilä, City of Pori
  • SS7 IP3:City of Oulu as an Innovative Service Platform, Janne Mustonen, City of Oulu
  • SS7 IP4:Smart Himos, Hannu Pelkonen, Jämsek Ltd

[edit] Workshop Sessions

[edit] W1 Workshop session: "Living Labs experience feedback from the CWE IP projects" 

 Organised by: CWE Projects (C@R, Ecospace, Cospaces, Laboranova, WearIT@Work)
 Chair: Angelos Ktenas, European Commission
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 7, 13H30
 Position Papers:

Objectives

The objective of this workshop is to get an interesting feedback about the current implementation of the Living Lab approach within the CWE projects. The Living lab approach appears to be like a "coin" having two sides, the most known one is the user-centric innovation environment (collaboration among all stakeholders, and on openness as regards attracting new stakeholders and developing innovation opportunities) and the less known one is the user-centred multidisciplinary research (collaboration among different sciences such as computer science, social sciences, socio-economic, socio-ergonomic and socio-cognitive for a complementary approach of exploration, observation and evaluation where users are also engaged into the exploratory research and co-design). Inside the coin there are the necessary infrastructures, whose research infrastructure is one of them, and including the necessary science services as well as innovation related services supporting the implementation of the Living Labs serving both sides.

It is assumed that projects mentioned have been selecting and experimenting different research methods and innovation methods. It will be beneficial for all and more particularly for the Living Lab community to share those Living Lab experiences and to compare faced difficulties either in term of research or innovation support as well as to assess the value brought by users in this context of Living Lab experimentations.

Proposed discussion topics

  • lessons learned in view of future LL implementations;
  • gaps and research challenges for the next ICT Workprogramme;
  • potential collaboration interests (i.e. LL research instruments);
  • harmonisation of LL environments;
  • needs for a European Research infrastructure.

Workshop program

The workshop consists of presenting the different project's Living Lab contexts, perspectives, methods and achievements on implementing the Living Lab approach. There will be also a discussion about the lessons learned so far, the foreseen gaps and needed research challenges to move forward:

each project feedback will be presented in a 20mn presentation

  • CoSpaces: Terrence Fernando, Pedro Maló
  • C@R: Hans Schaffers, Mariano Navarro
  • ECOSPACE: Hermann Löh, Wolfgang Prinz
  • Laboranova: Ben Hughes, Esteve Almiral
  • WearIT@Work: Michael Lawo, Markus Klann

Open discussion: 60mn

  • All participants

Conclusion and follow-up: 20mn

Expected outcome

  • Report on the Living Lab concept implementations within different CWE contexts, lessons learned, gaps and research challenges, and insight in best practices.
  • Future activities

Targeted audience

  • Researh scientists looking for a new research paradigm,
  • Innovation actors,
  • Living Labs Open Innovation community members,
  • Current Integrated Projects in the CWE portfolio,
  • Past and new initiatives to implement the Living lab concept (CoreLabs, CO-LLABS),
  • Living labs in the ENoLL portfolio,
  • European Commission officers,
  • National policy makers involved in ICT-innovation initiatives.

[edit] W2 Workshop session: "Empowering the mobile worker by wearable computing" 

 Organised by:  WearIT@Work Project
 Chair: Michael Lawo, TZI, Bremen, Germany
 Scheduling: Wednesday 25 June, Room 8, 14H00
 Scientific Papers: 1 to be submitted
 Position Papers:3

Scientific paper

  • "Context recognition in the wearIT@work project", Paul Lukowicz, Passau University

invited talk: 45 mn presentation

  • "The next 6 big things in mobile computing", Prof Thad Starner, Georgia Tech, USA

Position statements: 20 mn presentations

  • "Wearable Computing in Healthcare – from an idea to a working system in daily business", Kurt Adamer, Gespag, Steyr, Austria (to be confirmed)
  • "Supporting mobile workers in car production by wearable computing – applied context detection", Inaki Maurtua, Tekniker , Eibar, Spain and Carsten Matysczok, Unity, Paderborn,Germany
  • "An Approach to Systemic Innovation of Information Technology for Emergency Response" Markus Klann, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
  • "Giving access to complex content and supporting collaboration by Wearable Computing in aircraft maintenance", Giancarlo Bo, Giunti, Sestri Levante, Italy and Nicolas Chevassus, Paris, EADS France

Position statements: 10 mn presentations

  • "Does Wearable Computing Really Empower the Mobile Worker – findings from ethnographic studies", Edna Pasher, EP, tel Aviv, Israel
  • "Exploiting Research Results in Practice", Daniele Tondini, ENEA, Bologna, Italy and Mike Lawo, TZI, Bremen, Germany

Discussion and Conclusions: 35 mn

[edit] W3 Workshop session: "2nd OCA WG Workshop" 

 Organised by: OCA Group
 Chair: Carlos Ralli Ucendo, Telefónica I+D, Emilio Vargas 6, 12345 Madrid, Spain, ralli@tid.es
 Co-Chair: Christian Merz2, SAP AG Vincenz-Priessnitz-Strasse 1,76131 Karlsruhe,Germany, Christian.merz@sap.com
 Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 3, 10H30
 Position Papers:

Abstract

The Open Collaborative Architecture Working Group (OCA WG) is a forum where technicians from CWE IP and STREPS projects discuss, share and compare Collaborative Working Environments platforms, in order to conclude architecture and design recommendations. The European Commission established that the OCA should be chaired every year by a CWE IP, starting with C@R (www.c-rural.eu ). This paper expresses OCA interest for co-locating its yearly workshop with the ICE conference.

Keywords

Collaborative Working Environments (CWE), Collaborative Services, Collaboration, Social Computing, OCA-WG, Service Framework, Software Platform, Interactive Services.

Objectives

The objectives of this 2nd OCA workshop are:

  • To share the actual results on SW platforms evolution and use cases definition of the CWE projects portfolio.
  • To focus on the specific requirements, characteristics, features and tools which make a SW Platform or Service Framework a CWE system.
  • To analyze successful use cases and related functionalities and tools showing the benefits of a CWE framework compared to other
  • To discuss about the evolution of the CWE architectures presented in the last meeting in Prague to address support of collaboration in the projects use cases.
  • To pass the OCA-WG chair token to Ecospace.

Expected outcome

In previous meetings, the projects showed similar system architecture approaches with similar layers and functional components within them. These similarities allowed the projects to establish comparisons and foresee potential cooperation tasks, which have not being relevant up to now, as the projects had to face first their systems development and initial deployments. The main topic for this second edition of the Open Collaborative Architecture Working Group (OCA-WG) is to share and discuss each IP/STREP CWE project vision on the Collaborative Aspects of a CWE Systems. The CWE projects portfolio is expected to focus on the requirements, features, tools, services and concepts supporting people collaboration at work. This Workshop will provide a discussion framework to conclude the specific characteristics and benefits of a CWE system compared to other service frameworks or SW tools identifying successful experiences.

Background of the organizers

C@R is an Integrated Project funded by the 6th Frame Program of the European Commission focused on advance on the specification, development, test and validation of a powerful and flexible worker-centric collaborative platform that will significantly enhance the capabilities of rural inhabitants, both, @work and @life, thus leading to a better quality of life and a revalorisation of rural settin gs. C@R was in charge of the four OCA-WG brainstorming and launch meetings and has organised the first event once the CWE IPs and STREPs were already in place (May 15th, 2007.Prague).

Targeted audience Technical people (designers and developers) directly involved in European funded CWE projects such as: Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, EcoSpace, Laboranova, NEPOMUK, WearIT@Work, Popeye

Acknowledgement

This work has been partly funded by the European Commission through IST Project C@R: Collaboration at Rural (No. IST-2006-34921). The authors wish to acknowledge the Commission for their support.

References

[edit] W4 Workshop session: "CWE for strategic innovation" 

 Organised by:  LABORANOVA & ESoCE-Net (European Society of Concurrent Engineering Network)
 Chair: Federico Mussano (ESoCE-Net), fmussano@esoce.net
 Co-Chair: Heiko Duin (BIBA), du@biba.uni-bremen.de
 Scheduling: Wednesday 25 June, Room 2, 9H30

Abstract

The ICE Conference in Lisbon happens in coincidence with the completion of the second year of the Laboranova project (IST-5-035262-IP), a project aimed at creating a new collaboration environment for strategic innovation, also within the context of Living Labs. Next generation Collaborative Tools are presented in the workshop in an interactive way: the three Laboranova pillars (Ideation, Connection, Evaluation) are shown in an integrated scenario.

Keywords

Collaborative Working Environments (CWE), Collaborative Services, Innovation, Living Labs, Collaborative Tools, eProfessionals, Collaborative Workspaces.

Objectives

The objectives of this workshop are:

  • give an overview of the current status of the Laboranova project and discuss/demo some specific tools by using an integrated scenario;
  • show Laboranova roadmap and support to Living Labs;
  • identify specific needs for dedicated segments, e.g.
* eHealth
* ICT and Environment
* Tourism
* Mobility
* Energy
* Rural
* Media
* Life/Wellbeing
* eBusiness

and come to the definition of best practices and business processes reengineering to adopt in the most effective way the Laboranova tools and methodologies.

Background of the LABORANOVA project

  • Project no.: IST-5-035262-IP (FP6 - Information Society Technologies)
  • Project title: Laboranova – Collaboration Environment for Strategic Innovation
  • Start date of project: June 1, 2006
  • Duration: 42 month
  • Website: http://www.laboranova.com/

Existing collaborative working environments (CWEs) mainly focus on supporting traditional working paradigms of linear workflows by providing IT-based platforms for planning, scheduling and executing tasks. However, organisations need to increase their capacity for carrying out open-ended and nonlinear problem solving involving a wide participation of people in knowledge-rich environments and this must be supported by the next generation CWEs. The goal of Laboranova is to create this next generation Collaborative Tools which will change existing technological and social infrastructures for collaborating and support knowledge workers and eProfessionals in sharing, improving and evaluating ideas systematically across teams, companies and networks. Laboranova involves the integration of the three central RTD-domains, each dealing with a critical aspect of strategic innovative work; ideation, connection, and decision/evaluation. Theoretical and technological foundation for all domains are considered and framed.

Background of the organizers

ESoCE-Net (European Society of Concurrent Engineering Network) is a non-profit making organisation operating in the domains of Concurrent Enterprising (Concurrent Engineering and Virtual Enterprise) and on-line communities, with the mission of promoting research, and performing a catalyst role for CE adoption in Industry through focused initiatives to disseminate the knowledge and complete the methodological framework for CE industrial deployment. With such mission, ESoCE-Net is adopting a strategy that is based on the involvement of Industry and Research entities within on-line Professional Communities for the promotion and focusing of CE research and development activities on selected areas, the development of on-line community services such as eProfessionals, community based collaborative workspaces & Collaborative Instant Learning, the establishment of relations with outstanding RTD projects, the distillation of ongoing RTD results and bridging to the rest of the Industry. ESoCE-Net main involvement in LABORANOVA is in Subproject 9 - Dissemination and exploitation: within SP9, ESoCE-Net participate to various tasks and it is workpackage leader for the dissemination towards SME’s and other sectors.

Targeted audience

Innovation managers, e-Professionals, Knowledge Workers, Regional Development Agencies, SMEs, Virtual Professional Communities, Virtual/Concurrent Enterprises and Large Enterprises as members of Collaborative Innovation Networks, Cooperative Clusters, Living Labs and Living Labs stakeholders, Public Policy Makers involved in e-government services, in e-procurement services and in services for social inclusion and integration.

Agenda

8:30 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Workshop start

  • Laboranova workshop objectives
(R.Santoro, ESoCE-Net - European Society of Concurrent Engineering Network, Italy)
  • Laboranova: Creative Innovation Vision
(K.D.Thoben, BIBA - University of Bremen, Germany)
  • Laboranova methodologies and tools overview
(E.Almirall, UPC - Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
* Enhance social networking and sharing of concepts and ideas
* Ideation, Connection, Evaluation: an integrated scenario
  • InnoJam - An Agent-based Approach to Innovation Jams
(M.Sonsona, UPC - Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Workshop (cont’d)

  • refQuest - Innovation Gaming
(H.Duin, BIBA - University of Bremen, Germany)
  • InnoTube - Video-based Connection Tool
(M.Luccini, CALT - INSEAD’s Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies, France)
  • IDEM - Prediction Market
(E.Bothos, ICCS, Greece)
  • Laboranova roadmap and support to Living Labs
(B.Hughes, ESADE, Spain)
  • Discussion and Conclusions
Real life business cases are to be brought into consideration to discuss how Laboranova methodologies and objectives match with such real life cases. A particular attention has to be given to Objectives vs Priority and to Objectives vs Social & Organisational Impact.
With reference to Living Labs, the availability of a self sustainable business model is a main issue and suggestions for a dynamic modulation of Laboranova roadmaps in this respect are highly welcome.

12:30 Lunch

[edit] Demonstration and Training Sessions

[edit] T1 Training Session for the CoSpaces project: Training in Collaborative Working 

 Organised by:  CoSpaces Project
 Chair: Terrence Fernando, USAL, UK
 Scheduling: Wednesday 25 June, Room 3, 11H30

Abstract

Major trend in global market today is the increasing collaboration amongst enterprises, motivated by business drivers such as cost reduction, organization, flexibility and the focus on core competencies. Enterprises have to react to the raised innovation pressure and facilitate flexible collaboration on a global scale by aligning their business processes and improving human engagement. Thus, mastering collaboration in its various dimensions is essential for pushing enterprises’ productivity, efficiency, rationality and innovation, i.e. growth.

The Training in Collaborative Working aims to provide knowledge and skills that allow trainees to understand the why’s and how’s of today’s common issues directly related to collaboration at work. It focuses on delivering an effective training experience to both industrialists and research scientists in order to raise awareness and develop skills and competences on key collaborative working themes as to promote the uptake of collaborative technologies in design and engineering domains. The training workshop at ICE2008 is defined around two dimensions: a) knowledge areas and b) training levels. These two dimensions frame the training activity both in the specific knowledge interests from audience and on the profile and level of such audience.

The knowledge areas relate to the reference subjects that represent relevant dimensions of Collaborative Working. These have been defined based on the key CoSpaces themes which are also to the same extent the fundamental dimensions of collaborative working pragmatics:

  • Collaboration Methods – aiming to establish training on the fundamental and applied understanding of collaboration and its manifestations between individuals and engineering teams;
  • Collaborative Technologies – aiming to provide trainees with technological competences and skills on developing support to ease creation and use of collaborative workspaces for seamless, stable and natural collaboration of distributed workers and teams;
  • Collaborative Workspaces - focusing on providing knowledge in the specific aspects related to collaborative workspaces based on real case and meaningful collaboration scenario.

The training levels are classified in three stages:

  • Introductory level, provides trainees with the essential concepts of Collaborative Working, enclosing basic knowledge support that includes elements such as concepts, terminologies, approaches, state-of-practice, etc. related to collaborative working and collaborative workspaces;
  • Core level, which aggregates those training elements that establish the in-depth knowledge, understanding and skills that are central to the training curriculum areas, i.e. within the three domains defined in the knowledge areas: collaboration methods, collaborative technologies and collaborative workspaces;
  • Advanced level, focusing on the business innovation aspects related to collaborative working, out looking business advantages, opportunities and solutions for innovating based upon collaborative practices, alongside with aspects such as organizational change and change management.

Keywords

Training, Collaborative Working, Collaboration, Collaborative Workspaces, CoSpaces.

Objectives

The Training workshop in Collaborative Working objective at ICE2008 is to provide knowledge and skills that allow trainees to understand the issues related to collaboration at work. It focuses on delivering an effective training experience to both:

  • Research scientists, to transfer knowledge on (a) industrial needs in the area of collaborative workspaces; (b) Human factor theories and models, design methods, evaluation frameworks and guidelines for developing better ambient interfaces and collaborative workspaces; and (c) technological architectures for collaboration and collaborative working.
  • Industrialists as to raise awareness and install competences on collaborative working themes and promote the uptake of collaborative technologies in design and engineering domains.

Expected outcome

Expected outcome could be generically outlined as knowing:

  • Basic concepts and ideas of Collaboration, CW and CWE
  • Generic understanding of collaborative practices
  • Specific understanding of sectoral collaborative practices
  • Initial knowledge of collaborative technology
  • Knowing how to better collaborate based on collaborative technology using reference case studies
  • Be aware of business advantages of collaborative working based on reference case studies and the aspects related to change management on those.
  • Get an overall view of the research challenges associated with CW
  • Be aware of CoSpaces project including a basic identification of its technologies
  • Have the understanding on the CoSpaces Architecture, it’s layers, foundations and building-blocks
  • Have an in-depth comprehension of the CoSpaces Software Framework, its components and key technological dimensions

Expected outcome could be outlined as being able to do:

  • Use the CoSpaces Architecture as a start for developing collaboration architectures.
  • Use the presented approach for requirements elicitation process from the perspective of user-centered design.
  • Promote and disseminate CW practices in their businesses;
  • Re-evaluate current practices and highlight barriers to collaborative working and areas with potential improvement.
  • Explore/implement the proposed technology to improve current practice.
  • Raise the awareness of the added value related to the effective use of technology.

Background of the organizers

The development work of the Training in Collaborative Working has been performed within the scope of the European Integrated Project IST-5-034245 CoSpaces entitled “Innovative Collaborative Work Environments for Individuals and Teams in Design and Engineering”.

The workshop is brought to you by the CoSpaces Training Unit leader UNINOVA which presents solid competences in Training and Education. UNINOVA has strong traditions in both professional training and advanced education programmes, e.g. it has coordinated the training activities in the IST-507849 ATHENA Integrated project and its key personnel also teach at FCT-UNL University having profound knowledge and competence in the educational domains.

The Training in Collaborative Working exploits however the developments of the collaborative RTD activities in CoSpaces and thus classified as joint-ownership of the training material and to this extent a joint-venture of several organisations participating to the training system. CoSpaces has brought together industry leaders committed to promoting collaborative working in aerospace (Airbus CIMPA, CERFACS), automotive (VDC, VARINEX), construction (COWI) with the Danish Construction Network covering entire supply chain, and internationally leading research and IT players in virtual engineering environments, networking, ambient interfaces (Fraunhofer Institute, University of Salford, University of Stuttgart, The Open Group, UNINOVA), human factors experts (University of Nottingham, Fraunhofer FIT) and leading technology transfer and training organizations for SMEs (CARSA, CERFACS, National Technical University of Athens, UNINOVA). Targeted audience

The training programme targets both industry and research/academic communities that are concerned with collaboration and collaborative workspaces issues. Meaningful case studies will be explored coming from the Aerospace, Automotive and Construction industries.

Acknowledgement

This work has been partly funded by the European Commission through the IST-5-034245 CoSpaces Integrated Project: Innovative Collaborative Work Environments for Individuals and Teams in Design and Engineering. The organizers wish to acknowledge the European Commission for their support.

References

CoSpaces project web page: http://www.cospaces.org

[edit] D1 Demo Session: inContext & Vimoware Projects demos

Organised by: inContext project & Vitalab in the framework of the EU FP 6 WORKPAD project

Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, coffeeRoom 

 Scheduling InContext demo: Tuesday 24 June, coffeeRoom, during coffee break at 10H30
 Scheduling Vimoware demo: Tuesday 24 June, coffeeRoom, during coffee break at 15H00 
 Scientific Papers: 1 already submitted on ICE website

[edit] inContext: Context- and Interaction-based Collaboration Services for Teamwork

The inContext project develops novel context- and interaction-based techniques for collaborative work. In this demo, we will demonstrate the current working prototype of inContext including:

  • the inContext pervasive collaboration services architecture
  • ontology-based context model and implementation for collaborative work
  • interaction mining for collaborative work
  • context- and interaction-based service selection for teamwork
  • applications built atop inContext platform

References:

  • Deliverables in the inContext website
  • Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, Dino Baggio, Stephane Corlosquet, Christoph Dorn, Giovanni Giuliani, Robert Gombotz, Yi Hong, Pete Kendal, Christian Melchiorre, Sarit Moretzky, Sebastien Peray, Axel Polleres, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Daniel Schall, Simona Stringa, Marcel Tilly, HongQing Yu, inContext: a Pervasive and Collaborative Working Environment for Emerging Team Forms, The 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2008), (c) IEEE Computer Society, July 28- Aug 1 2008, Turku, Finland.

[edit] Vimoware: a toolset for ad-hoc and mobile team collaboration

Mobile devices have been increasingly used for teamwork, especially when dedicated infrastructure is not available. In this demo, we will demonstrate Vimoware, a Java framework for developing Web service-based applications for mobile devices. Vimoware is developed as a part of the EU FP6 WORKPAD and it can be used to develop applications for collaborative work on mobile devices.

In our demo, we will

  • demonstrate Vimoware runtime systems, including service discovery, event notification/query and runtime service deployment
  • how to develop Web services and client applications for teamwork based on Vimoware
  • collaborative applications developed on top of Vimoware, including 
   -Context data management for disaster response
   -Flow execution engine for mobile, ad-hoc teamwork.

In the demo, we will set up a testbed consisting of mobile network of PDAs, subnotebooks, and regular notebooks

References:

[edit] D2 Demo Session: ECOSPACE Interoperability Demonstrations: Shared Workspaces InterWorking 

 Organised by:  ECOSPACE
 Scheduling: Wednesday 25 June, CoffeeRoom, during coffee break at 11H00

During this demonstration session interoperability at the level of addressing external folders within shared workspaces, Business Collaborator and BSCW, based on the use of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC - pronounced "shock") format will be presented by ECOSPACE partners.

[edit] D3 Demo Session: LABORANOVA tools Demonstration 

 Organised by:  LABORANOVA
  • These demonstrations will be held during the LABORANOVA Workshop
  • Scheduling: Wednesday 25 June, Room 2, 11H30

[edit] D4 Demo Session: CoVES Demonstration 

 Organised by:  CoVES
  • These demonstrations will be held during the CoVES Special session
  • Scheduling: Tuesday 24 June, Room 4, 11H30

[edit] Project Meetings

[edit] CoSpaces Project Meeting, 26-27 June 2008 

 Organised by:  CoSpaces Project
 Hosted by: UNINOVA
 Duration: 2 days

[edit] CoVES Project Meeting, 23 June 2008 

 Organised by:  CoVES Project
 Hosted by: ICE'2008
 Scheduling: Monday 23 June, Room A, 13H30
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