Which of the following best describes what you are building for this program (please feel free to elaborate):
* a collaboration environment
* collaborative tool(s)
* infrastructure for collaborative environments

Which of the following IC&V program objectives will your research results support:
* Enable access via diverse portals, from hand-held through room-sized
* Scale collaborations to 10 active collaborators, 100 questioners, and 1000 observers
* Enable real-time discovery of relevant collaborators and information within a task
* Reduce by an order of magnitude the time to review collaborative sessions
* Improve task-based performance of collaborators by two orders of magnitude

Who do you see as the users of your products--please give more specifics, if possible:
* DOD: intelligence assessments
* Scientific Researchers: scientific knowledge discovery and disemination
* Software Engineers: software design

What information from potential end users would assist you in developing and refining your system?
high level description of domain processes of specific outputs. reliant domain specific figures of merit/metrics for evaluatiing collaboration

When evaluating the utility of your product, what will be your measures of success?
does system help opportunistic problem solving. does use of library of interaction processes enable collaborators to reach results promised by the process description

What can the Evaluation Working Group provide that would assist you in your testing and evaluation (check as many as apply):
* Access to end users for design, testing or discussion
* HCI and usability experts
* Scenarios or scripts to exercise collaborative systems

Where do you see relationships between your system or research product and others in the IC&V program?
lLink with projects on adaptive session management and virtual team creaytion and resource discovery

Any other comments:
There should be some evaluation metric capability built into systems so that each user weould be able to measure in real time how well systems are working in meeting system objectives. See Q4. components for collaboration and conferencing already available. anticipated / integrated environment development to demo in 3 year span.



Roger Harwitz