Which of the following best describes what you are building for this program (please feel free to elaborate):
* a collaboration environment
* collaborative tool(s)
* visualization tools
* Other: Understanding avatar representation issues, collaborative discovery tools, and awareness tools

Which of the following IC&V program objectives will your research results support:
* Scale collaborations to 10 active collaborators, 100 questioners, and 1000 observers
* Enable real-time discovery of relevant collaborators and information within a task
* 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 Community - Discover when different analysts are working with information that may be related to the same problem.
* Managers: Group assessment of competitive event and opportunities

When will your research "product" be ready to share with potential end users (in the lab, in the field:)
* Within the next 6 months

What information from potential end users would assist you in developing and refining your system?

When evaluating the utility of your product, what will be your measures of success?
Increased ability of a group to pull together apparently unrelated details into a "big picture"

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
* 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?
NCSA effort is producing collaborative components we may be able to integrate into our system. MIT effort is producing models of structured discussions we can use.

Any other comments:
We are considering scenarios where use opf our tool helps collaborators put together pieces of a puzzle to assemble a "big picture" of a situation. We want to see how well people find others who have info they need. A web-based puzzle-like problem would be an intersting data set.



Dave Payton - (818) 883-6729
payton@isl.hrl.hac.com