Impetus / How Project Began

ITL was asked by the Evaluation Working Group (EWG) of the DARPA Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization program to support the development of a methodology and software tools to support the evaluation of collaborative systems.

Objective

The objective is to develop evaluation methodologies and tools that enable testing and benchmarking of collaborative systems and associated technology. The primary task has been to are to define and validate low-cost methods for evaluating collaborative environments so that researchers in the collaborative computing research community can use these methods to evaluate their own or other research products. NIST has also build some evaluation tools to support network monitoring and execution of test scripts.