Collaborating across cultural and technological boundaries: Team culture and information use in a map navigation task

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 175-184

  Diamant, E Ilana ^a   Fussell, Susan R ^b   Lo, Fen Ly ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural communication; CSCW; Distributed work; Empirical studies; Intellectual teamwork

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; CSCW; DISTRIBUTED WORK; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTELLECTUAL TEAMWORK;

COMMUNICATION; GROUPWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 67650700759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1499224.1499251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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