SIG Digital Collaboration

SIG leader: Willi Bernhard, FFHS

The SIG Digital Collaboration is a relaunch of the SIG e-Collaboration which lasted from 2010 to 2016.

Since it was established in 2010, the group has carried out the following activities like: collection, categorisation and visualisation of e-learning and e-collaboration scenarios, design of social media models for learning, development of a MOOC business model, meeting with e-collaboration experts at CERN and various communication activities (at INTE'13 and the SWITCH eduhub days).

The re-opened SIG is focusing on new needs and current /future trends for a "smart" collaboration. While e-Collaboration relies more or less on electronic tools, digital collaboration should incorporate smart technologies that make the user's work easier, more intuitive or deeply immersive.

The SIG Digital Collaboration brings together actors who want to design and experience collaborative activities in the age of digital transformation through the use of existing or new digital technologies. The members of the group can test new tools, methods and technologies in collaboration scenarios in order to experience their effectiveness and identify problems and opportunities in current or future projects.

• The collaboration activities of this SIG mainly take place online. If required, attendance meetings or on-site meetings can also be arranged.
• The collaboration scenarios practiced can be of a synchronous or asynchronous nature. Collaboration focuses on the exchange of information and knowledge, as well as project work with people who communicate at a distance.

Online activities:

• Video collaboration with ZOOM
• Virtual Reality Collaboration meeting with SPACES, participate with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive
• Audio Collaboration with Google's Pixel Buds synchronous in-ear translation ear pods, collaboration meeting using different languages

Meetings – coming up

The next SIG Digital Collaboration meeting will be in June 2018. Members of the SIG will receive an invitation.

Past meetings

• SIG Digital Collaboration meeting, May 14, 2018, 16h00-17h00, online with SWITCHinteract