Factors of collaborative working: A framework for a collaboration model

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Patel, Harshada ^a   Pettitt, Michael ^a,b   Wilson, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Everything Everywhere   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaborative engineering; Collaborative work; CoSpaces collaborative working model; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING; COLLABORATIVE WORK; COLLABORATIVE WORKING; VIRTUAL TEAM;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

ACCURACY; AWARENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ERGONOMICS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 80052412096     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.04.009     Document Type: Review

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