Design and evaluation of activity model-based groupware: methodological issues

Nadia Gauducheau (1) , Eddie Soulier (1) , Myriam Lewkowicz (1)

1 Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs

This article presents methodological issues on evaluation related to the design process of the tool being evaluated. We emphasize the different variables which are important to take into account, and the links between them. We illustrate our approach with the presentation of a groupware for collective sensemaking (Sum it up) based on a theoretical activity model coming from social sciences, and a first evaluation of this groupware.

Keywords: Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Process design; Collaboration; Iterative methods; Buildings; Stress; Production; Conferences; Collaborative tools

Domains: Software Engineering [cs.SE]; Modeling and Simulation

Nadia Gauducheau, Eddie Soulier, Myriam Lewkowicz. Design and evaluation of activity model-based groupware: methodological issues. 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise (WETICE'05), 2005, Linkoping, Sweden. ⟨10.1109/WETICE.2005.30⟩. ⟨hal-02880092⟩