Designing interventions to reduce psychological distance in globally distributed teams

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 163-166

  Marlow, Jennifer ^a   Dabbish, Laura ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

distributed teams; psychological distance; teambuilding interventions

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; TEAM BUILDING; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84858213571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2141512.2141568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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