Using developer activity data to enhance awareness during collaborative software development

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 509-558

  Omoronyia, Inah ^a   Ferguson, John ^a   Roper, Marc ^a   Wood, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Context awareness; Distributed teamwork; Empirical studies; Global software development; Relevance filtering

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS INFORMATION; AWARENESS MODEL; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TIME AND SPACE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 73449128270     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: 15737551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-009-9104-0     Document Type: Article

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