Working together apart : collaboration over the internet /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
2014.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics ;
# 20. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic. This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations. We close with a set of recommendations for individuals, managers, and those higher in the organizations who wish to support distance work. |
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| Item Description: | Series from website. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 137 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-135). |
| ISBN: | 9781608450510 |
| ISSN: | 1946-7699 ; |
| DOI: | 10.2200/S00542ED1V01Y201310HCI020 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. |