The effects of group composition on decision quality in a social production community

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 55-64

  Lam, Shyong K ^a   Karim, Jawed ^b   Riedl, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; decision making; small groups; wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COLLECTIVE DECISION; DECISION QUALITY; EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION; FOUR-GROUP; GROUP COMPOSITION; GROUP MEMBERS; HIGH QUALITY; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; SMALL GROUPS; WIKIPEDIA; WORKING GROUPS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 78751690956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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