Forum contact space: Serendipity in the workplace

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 331-332

  Jeffrey, Phillip ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avatars; Chance encounters; Collaborative virtual environments; CSCW; Informal communication

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; CHANCE ENCOUNTERS; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; CSCW; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869475104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/633292.633492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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