Susan Williams, Petra Schubert and Jennifer Gerbl from the CEIR team attended the 24th EUSSET Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2026) in Munich, Germany, from 29 June to 3 July 2026, where we had the opportunity to present our recent work. Keynote “From collaboration software portfolios to enterprise Read more
DACHNUG 2026 took place this year from 9 to 11 June at NOVUM in Würzburg. As a conference – organised by the German Notes User Group (DNUG) – for users and providers of HCL‘s software solutions (in the fields of enterprise collaboration and no-code/low-code/pro-code application development), it was once again the ideal venue for us to Read more
To start the new research year Prof. Petra Schubert and Prof. Susan Williams participated in the 58th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS58). They presented a paper jointly authored by Petra Schubert, Susan Williams, Martin Just, Jens Alberts and Sebastian Bahles that reports on our latest research into the use of digital trace data to Read more
This year, the CEIR team once again took part in the annual ENGAGE User Group conference and provided insights into their current research projects. Theo Heselmans invited us to participate and this was his last event as the Chair of the ENGAGE User Group before handing over the Chairperson role to his Read more
This year the 50th DACHNUG took place from June 13th to June 15th at the Rhein-Sieg-Forum in Siegburg, Germany. At this conference, users and providers of software related to HCL (the developer of HCL Connections and therefore also UniConnect) meet once a year. CEIR was present as part of the Read more
As mentioned in our blog post about the UniConnect update to HCL Connections version 7.0; not only did we update to Connections Version 7 but we also expanded our collaboration platform with the integration of various tools from Belsoft. The Belsoft Community Manager is already being used productively as new Read more
The need for digital alternatives for training and development workshops has increased due to digital transformation, advances in digital workplaces, and the increasing number of people working from home or in distributed teams. This demand proved to be even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, when physical workshops were not Read more
“We have to evolve to avoid being disrupted” was the message Richard Jefts (General Manager at HCL Digital Solutions) delivered at the opening session of Engage 2020 – a two-day conference on collaboration technologies that took place in the Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands. Through 86 sessions more than 100 Read more