Working together apart : collaboration over the internet /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Olson, Judith Reitman (Author), Olson, Gary M. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2014.
Series:	Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics ; # 20.
Subjects:	Virtual work teams. communication coordination cyberinfrastructure distance work distributed teams infrastructure managing virtual teams team science teamwork technology support trust virtual teams Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. The changing landscape
10. The science of collaboratories database
10.1 Information collected
10.2 Findings to date
11. The collaboration success wizard
11.1 Details of the wizard
11.2 Details of the reports
11.3 Initial experience with the wizard
11.4 The wizard as translational research
11.5 Contact re the wizard
12. Summary and recommendations
12.1 What about distance matters?
12.1.1 Blind and invisible
12.1.2 Time zone differences
12.1.3 Crossing institutional or cultural boundaries
12.1.4 Uneven distribution and the consequent imbalance of power or status
12.2 Recommendations
12.3 Recommendations concerning the individuals who are members of a distributed team
12.3.1 Collaboration readiness
12.3.2 Technical readiness
12.4 Recommendations for the manager of a distributed team
12.4.1 Selecting people for the team
12.4.2 Common ground
12.4.3 Collaboration readiness
12.4.4 The nature of the work
12.4.5 Management
12.4.6 Technology readiness
12.5 Recommendations for an organization that wishes to support a distributed team
12.6 In the future, will distance still matter?
2. Types of distributed collaborations
2.1 Distributed project or enterprise
2.2 Shared instrument or resource
2.3 Community data bases
2.4 Open contribution system
2.5 Virtual community of practice
2.6 Virtual learning community
2.7 Community infrastructure project
2.8 Remote expertise
2.9 Evolution from one type to another
2.10 Some other factors
2.11 Summary
2.12 Key attributes
2.13 Using the typology
3. What it means to be successful
3.1 Success in research: the sciences and the humanities
3.1.1 Ideas
3.1.2 Tools
3.1.3 Training
3.1.4 Outreach
3.1.5 Impact
3.2 Success in corporations
3.3 Success in non-profits
3.4 Summary of successes
4. Overview of factors that lead to success
5. The nature of the work
6. Common ground
7. Collaboration readiness
7.1 Characteristics of the individual team members
7.2 The culture of collaboration or competition
7.3 Examination of the explicit sources of motivation
7.4 Trust
7.5 Group self-efficacy
8. Organization and management
8.1 The project organization
8.2 The project manager
8.3 What's special about managing distributed work?
8.4 What management includes
8.4.1 Plans
8.4.2 Decision making
8.4.3 Managing across time zones and cultures
8.4.4 Managing legal issues
8.4.5 Managing financial issues
8.4.6 Managing knowledge
8.4.7 Launching a distributed project
8.5 Summary
9. Collaboration technologies and their use
9.1 Kinds of collaboration technologies
9.1.1 Communication tools
9.1.2 Coordination tools
9.1.3 Information repositories
9.1.4 Computational infrastructure
9.2 Deciding what constellation of technologies a particular collaboration needs
9.2.1 Speed
9.2.2 Size
9.2.3 Security
9.2.4 Privacy
9.2.5 Accessibility
9.2.6 Control
9.2.7 Media richness
9.2.8 Ease of use
9.2.9 Context information
9.2.10 Cost
9.2.11 Compatibility with other things used
9.3 Example decisions about technology choices
9.4 Conclusions
References
Author biographies.