Doodle around the world: Online scheduling behavior reflects cultural differences in time perception and group decision-making

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 45-54

  Reinecke, Katharina ^a   Nguyen, Minh Khoa ^b   Bernstein, Abraham ^b   Näf, Michael ^c   Gajos, Krzysztof Z ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Doodle AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Decision making; Doodle; Event scheduling

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; CROSS-CULTURAL; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DOODLE; EVENT SCHEDULING; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; SCHEDULING BEHAVIOR; STRONG CORRELATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84874833853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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