Microblogging's impact on collaboration awareness: A field study of microblogging within and between project teams

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-39

  Zhao, Dejin ^a   Rosson, Mary Beth ^a   Matthews, Tara ^b   Moran, Thomas ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness in Collaboration Systems; Social Software Based Collaboration

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE WORK; COMMON GROUND; EXPERTISE SHARING; FIELD STUDIES; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; LIGHT WEIGHT; MICROBLOGGING; PROJECT TEAM; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SOCIAL COMPONENTS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; TASK COORDINATION; TEAM MEMBERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 83355173521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2011.5928662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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