Work centered evaluation of collaborative systems - the Collate experience

A conceptual framework for understanding collaborative systems evaluation

“…human interaction, economic and political factors, and not focus on technical/ operation problems only. However, Albrechtsen et al [4] state that it is the case that very few evaluations have looked at the users' work contexts and their interpretation of this context, and the user's needs for collaboratory environments from a contextual perspective. It points out that in order to generate proper criteria to validate systems' performance, user requirements from different perspectives and overall environment, both internal and external, can not be neglected.…”

WETICE 2004 ECE Workshop - Final Report

“…Immediately a comparison was made between the COL-LATE paper [1] and the food traceability paper [2]. The former was an unregulated, almost unknown domain of work whereas the latter was a highly regulated, well-known domain.…”

“…The COLLATE Experience by Hanne Albrechtsen et al [1] The COLLATE environment applied collaboratory techniques to the domain of film research, specifically in the study of censorship decisions in the Fascist states of 20th Century Europe. Researchers from the Czech, German and Austrian national film archives collaborated using the environment to study two films: "Die Drei von der Tankstelle" a German satirical film censored by the Reich authorities and Battleship Potemkin, which needs no introduction.…”