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
CEIR participated in the Interantionale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) again this year. The 20th (anniversary) WI took place from 14 to 17 September 2025 in Münster and offered many exciting presentations, stimulating discussions and a wonderful social programme. The reception took place at Schloss Münster and we celebrated the following evenings Read more
Jennifer Gerbl and Jens Alberts from the CEIR team attended the 23rd European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2025) in Newcastle (UK) in July 2025. Doctoral Colloquium Jens took part in the doctoral colloquium together with eight other participants. A position paper was written and presented as a poster. His work is entitled “Investigating Coordinative Work Practices in Distributed Workgroups Using 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
The team of the Center for Enterprise Information Research (CEIR) presented five conference papers at the 15th International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems (CENTERIS), an AIS affiliated conference that took place in Porto, Portugal. The first presentation addressed the diversity of collaborative work practices in organisations. Julian Mosen provided insights into the diversity of usage Read more
We are delighted to announce that Professor Petra Schubert and Professor Susan P. Williams have been successful in receiving funding for second phase of the 2C-NOW project. The 2C-NOW2 research project is funded by the DFG and is part of the DFG Priority programme SPP 2267: The digitalization of working 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
Once again, our team attended the annual ENGAGE user group conference and presented some of our research findings. Theo Heselsmans, Chair of the Engage User Group, invited us to the beautiful city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where more than 300 practitioners and power users met at the conference venue Felix Meritis, Read more