Beyond being in the lab: Using multi-agent modeling to isolate competing hypotheses

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1693-1696

  Nan, Ning ^a   Johnston, Erik W ^a   Olson, Judith S ^a   Bos, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; Computer mediated communication; In group favoritism; Multiagent modeling; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COMPUTER MODELS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION; IN-GROUP FAVORITISM; MULTI-AGENT MODELING; NETLOGO; ORGANIZATIONAL SIMULATION; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; TEAM MEMBERS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

LABORATORIES;

EID: 33846085510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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