The effects of real-time individual performance feedback and goal setting on computermediated group idea generation

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 885-896

  Jung, Jay J H ^a   Schneider, Christoph ^b   Valacich, Joseph S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated idea generation; Goal setting; Human computer interaction; Performance feedback

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENT; FACTORIAL DESIGN; GOAL SETTING; GROUP MEMBERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; IDEA GENERATION; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK; SOCIAL LOAFING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84869771190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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