User experience: collaboration systems and technology

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) has a long history of supporting evolving areas of research, such as groupware, group support systems and knowledge management and the nurturing of these new concepts and ideas. The papers in this session describe efforts in facilitation, ontology development, sharing information, experiments, field studies, work flow, process design, planning and development of practical guidelines for collaboration systems and knowledge management. The papers and speakers in these sessions bring insight and lessons leaned from their experiences with real world problems. The GroupSystems software will be available throughout the sessions to identify research questions and opportunities for further study.