Facilitation of e-meetings: State-of-the-art review

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE-05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 728-735

  Macaulay, Linda A ^a   Alabdulkarim, Aref ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; TELECONFERENCING;

E-MEETINGS; HUMAN FACILITATOR; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 30944441228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EEE.2005.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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