WETICE 2005 ECE Workshop - Final Report

The primary goal of this workshop is to provide a forum, in which researchers and practitioners can share approaches to the evaluation of collaborative enterprises, lessons learned from deployment of collaborative systems in organisations or educational institutions, and ideas for directions the area of evaluation must move toward in order to facilitate the progress of distributed virtual collaboration. At the SixthWorkshop on Evaluation of Collaborative Information Systems and Support for Virtual Enterprises (ECE), papers were presented in two sessions with the following themes: "Evaluation in practice" for papers describing the results of finished evaluations and "Methodological Issues" for papers which dealt with work dedicated to improving the theoretical body of knowledge associated with evaluation. One paper presented crossed these themes describing ongoing evaluation driving evolution of an awareness system. From the work presented, it is clear that evaluation is being practised and that the theory of evaluation is being advanced resulting in more rigorous practice, though there is much still to be done.