Coordination in collective intelligence: The role of team structure and task interdependence

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1495-1504

  Kittur, Aniket ^a   Lee, Bryant ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Coordination; Social collaboration; Social computing; Wiki; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; COORDINATION; SOCIAL COLLABORATION; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WIKI; WIKIPEDIA;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77954018062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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