Supporting creativity in distributed scientific communities

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 217-226

  Farooq, Umer ^a   Carroll, John M ^a   Ganoe, Craig H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboratory; Creativity; Design rationale; Scientific collaboration

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE GROUPS; COLLABORATORIES; CONVERGENT THINKINGS; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DESIGN RATIONALE; LITERATURE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SUPPORTING CREATIVITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 77950335108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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