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:
* Other: My focus is on determining limitations of low resource video conferecning in supporting collaborative activities

Who do you see as the users of your products--please give more specifics, if possible:
* Office workers: To know that collaborative technologies support their work
* Managers: To know what tools are available for supporting required work

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?
Not sure yet. I'm currently designing an evaluation environment, and selecting task types.

When evaluating the utility of your product, what will be your measures of success?
Users determine the success of the collaborative task based on task objectives being met.

What can the Evaluation Working Group provide that would assist you in your testing and evaluation (check as many as apply):
* Other (please describe):
I'd like to think so since I like the research I've found. Unfortunately my work is confined to a local environment (which sets the context).

Where do you see relationships between your system or research product and others in the IC&V program?
My work will try to establish a boundary which describes the limitations of low resource (ie. cheap) video conferencing (and supporting applications) in supporting a range of collaborative tasks (Range: in terms of complexity).

Any other comments:




ERik Beauvais
erik@ru.ac.za