What if artificial intelligence (AI) machines became teammates rather than tools? This paper reports on an international initiative by 65 collaboration scientists to develop a research agenda for exploring the potential risks and benefits of machines as teammates (MaT). They generated 819 research questions. A subteam of 12 converged them to a research agenda comprising three design areas – Machine artifact, Collaboration, and Institution – and 17 dualities – significant effects with the potential for benefit or harm. The MaT research agenda offers a structure and archetypal research questions to organize early thought and research in this new area of study.

Engagement on online learning platforms is essential for user retention, learning, and performance. However, there is a paucity of research addressing latent engagement measurement using user activities. In this work in progress paper, we present a novel engagement score consisting of three sub-dimensions - cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, and behavioral engagement using a comprehensive set of user activities. We plan to evaluate our score on a large scale online learning platform and compare our score with measurements from a user survey-based engagement scale from the literature.

Collaborative applications allow a group of users to work together by sharing information and processes. Traditionally, these applications run in a lab environment with the support of traditional communication networks. Employing wireless technologies in supporting such applications will increase its effectiveness and usability. Wireless networks are rapidly emerging to be the network architecture of choice for many application domains due to their adaptability and scalability. However, skepticism about the level of quality of service (QoS) guaranteed by wireless networks has prevented them from replacing traditional networks in time-critical applications. Early attempts to naively replace traditional networks with wireless networks in supporting collaborative applications have produced less than acceptable results. In this paper, we show that the performance of various group decision support systems (GDSS) modules highly depends on the architecture of the employed wireless network and that selecting a proper configuration leads to significant performance improvements comparable to those obtained in wired networks

The use of software products in today's world has increased dramatically making quality an important aspect of software development. There is a continuous need to develop processes to control and increase software quality. Software code inspection is one way to pursue this goal. This paper presents a collaborative code inspection process that was designed during an action research study using Collaboration Engineering principles and techniques. Our inspection process was implemented as a sequence of thinkLets, chunks of facilitation skill, that were subsequently field tested in a traditional paper-based and Group Support System (GSS)-based environment. Four inspections were performed on four different pieces of software code in two different organizations. Results show that regardless of the implementation, the process was found to be successful in uncovering many major, minor, and false-positive defects in inspected pieces of code. Overall observations and feedback suggest that the collaborative inspection process was considered to be productive and satisfactory. GSS inspections were more effective, especially in terms of major defects. GSS inspections were also found to be more efficient. Finally, the GSS inspections outperformed the paper inspections from a practical perspective: logging and managing defects in a GSS was far superior.

Article Free Access Share on GSS for cooperative policymaking: no trivial matter Authors: Kees Wim van den Herik School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsView Profile , Gert-Jan de Vreede School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsView Profile Authors Info & Claims GROUP '97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group WorkNovember 1997 Pages 148–157https://doi.org/10.1145/266838.266889Published:16 November 1997Publication History 3citation221DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads221Last 12 Months5Last 6 weeks2 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF