Using job-shop scheduling tasks for evaluating collocated collaboration

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-267

  Tan, Desney S ^a   Gergle, Darren ^b   Mandryk, Regan ^c   Inkpen, Kori ^c   Kellar, Melanie ^c   Hawkey, Kirstie ^c   Czerwinski, Mary ^a,b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collocated environments; Computer supported collaborative work; Evaluation; Job shop scheduling task; User study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

COLLOCATED COLLABORATION; JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING TASK;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 38749105449     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-007-0154-3     Document Type: Article

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