Awareness displays and social motivation for coordinating communication

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-238

  Dabbish, Laura ^a   Kraut, Robert ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Computer mediated communication and collabortion; Interruption; Laboratory experiments; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INTERRUPTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 61349102355     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0175     Document Type: Article

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