Coming to the wrong decision quickly: Why awareness tools must be matched with appropriate tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 392-399

  Espinosa, Alberto ^a   Cadiz, Jonathan ^a   Rico Gutierrez, Luis ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Scherlis, William ^a   Lautenbacher, Glenn ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous work; Awareness devices; Computer mediated communication; Distributed work; Task awareness; Workgroups

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS WORK; AWARENESS DEVICES; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED WORK; TASK AWARENESS; WORKGROUPS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

ASYNCHRONOUS WORK; AWARENESS DEVICES; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED WORK; TASK AWARENESS; WORKGROUPS;

EID: 0033719528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/332040.332463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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