Benefits of synchronous collaboration support for an application-centered analysis team working on complex problems: A case study

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-60

  Linebarger, John M ^a   Scholand, Andrew J ^a   Ehlen, Mark A ^a   Procopio, Michael J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits of collaboration; Collaboration experiments; Collaboration frameworks; Common mental models; Synchronous collaboration

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS PROBLEMS; COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES; COLLABORATION FRAMEWORK; COMMON MENTAL MODELS; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GRAPHICAL IMAGES; MENTAL MODEL; SYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION; TEAM WORKING; TIME DURATION;

COMPLEXATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 33749603102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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