A Causal Graph Based Method to Evaluate e-Collaboration Scenarios

Electronic collaboration is a pervasive concept that influences practically all human domains, from work to learning to entertainment; making possible the collaboration between two or more distant persons. To encourage the exploitation of this new phenomenon, we have to demonstrate its benefits using validated evaluating methods that ensure the reliability of its effects. However, e-collaboration environments are not just classical human-computer interfaces: the criteria for their evaluation include teleological properties like the collaboration goal, the tasks and also particular constraints like the connectivity, the used soft platform, the quality of services and the behavior of the collaboration members. Our research work attempts to propose a reusable e-collaboration evaluation method. To attain this goal, we began by carrying out some abstractions about e-collaboration sessions giving a more rigorous vision about these environments. Once this step accomplished, the evaluation work based on the previously cited vision can be started.