[lofo List] KOA: Expected Results and dissemination Strategy

[Timothy J Maciag <maciagt@HYPERION.CC.UREGINA.CA>]

Hi all -- Posted below is the expected results and dissemination 
strategy (number of characters in brackets). Please comment, modify, etc.

Thanks
Take care
Tim

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Timothy J. Maciag, PhD. Candidate
Dept. Computer Science, University of Regina
HCI Lab, CL 121, 306-585-4005
- http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~maciagt



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Describe the expected results of the project (980/1000 characters)


The primary result of this project will be to deliver a highly 
functional, self-maintaining, accessible, flexible, and usable 
information/decision support system. This deliverable will lead to 
furthering research and development in many areas addressed by the 
project, which include: the evaluation of the conceptual framework for 
lifecycle assessments of product choices will aid in understanding the 
effectiveness of such tools in consumer decision-making, the evaluation 
of the database organization to support query optimization and query 
expressiveness will lead to a better understanding of how to improve 
future designs, the evaluation of the interface will further 
understanding of human-computer interaction design techniques and their 
effectiveness in the design and development process, and the evaluation 
of the final system will further research in understanding user 
decision-making processes and aid in understanding ways to provide users 
with more satisfying interactive experiences.


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Describe the planned strategy to disseminate the results of the project 
to the target audiences identified (3400/6000 characters)


(Research Community, General Public, Government Policy Makers, 
Infrastructure Practitioners)


To disseminate results of this project to the research community the 
academic researchers plan to submit research findings resulting from the 
project to various peer-reviewed conferences and journals. These will 
include submissions to the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR), 
Elsevier’s Journal on Environmental Modelling and Software (EMS), the 
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Graphics 
Interface (GI), the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), and the 
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), among others.


The JCR publishes scholarly research articles that describe and explain 
consumer behavior spanning fields such as psychology, marketing, 
sociology, and economics. Elsevier’s EMS journal publishes research 
articles on recent advances in environmental modelling and software. The 
CHI and GI conferences focus on research relating to the development of 
humane user interfaces for software. The EC conference focuses on the 
advancement of electronic commerce, principles and the CIKM conference 
focuses on researching new, innovative technologies to support 
information and knowledge management as well as recent advances on data 
and knowledge bases. The academic researchers have strong records in 
accepted works to various journal publications and conferences and hope 
to use these submissions as a catalyst to further research and 
development within the area.


Throughout the project’s duration, the research team, including academic 
researchers and supporting organizations, plan to hold a number of media 
events and public workshops on the project. The goal of these events and 
workshops will be to inform members of the supporting organizations, 
local and national government, infrastructure practitioners, and 
interested community members concerning the development and status of 
the project, milestones achieved and those still required to be 
completed, and the current results obtained. As well, the research team 
plans to hold numerous non-media project sessions specifically for 
government officials, policy makers, and infrastructure practitioners to 
learn about the development of the project and results obtained. With 
the assistance of the supporting organizations, the research team will 
contact and advertise these sessions to various government officials, 
policy makers, and infrastructure practitioners. Sessions will be 
planned accordingly based on the times and locations available for these 
stakeholders to meet.


Upon completion of the project, the research team will hold a general 
local public media event to advertise the pilot system and to inform all 
stakeholders concerning the success of the project. Community members 
from the general public, local and national government officials and 
policy makers, and infrastructure practitioners will be invited to 
attend. The event will discuss the project and results obtained as well 
as indicate plans for further research and development.


Along with providing the events and sessions as described, upon 
completion of the project the research team will draft a document 
outlining the various stages of the project, results obtained, and 
future work. The final project document will be distributed online, by 
placing the document on the web pages of the University of Regina and 
supporting organizations. It will also be made available for 
distribution offline.





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