Effects of simultaneous and sequential work structures on distributed collaborative interdependent tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 139-148

  André, Paul ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Group size; Interdependence; Small groups

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COMPLEX PRODUCTS; COORDINATION; COORDINATION STRATEGY; GROUP SIZE; INTER-DEPENDENT TASKS; INTERDEPENDENCE; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; SMALL GROUPS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900431356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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