No sense of distance: Improving cross-cultural communication with context-linked software tools

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 159-165

  Aragon, Cecilia R ^a   Poon, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cross cultural collaboration; Scientific collaboration

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION GAPS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DISTANCE COMMUNICATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SOFTWARE TOOL; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; TIME ZONES;

ASTROPHYSICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79952607056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1940761.1940783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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