Making decisions from a distance: The impact of technological mediation on riskiness and dehumanization

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1576-1589

  Lee, Min Kyung ^a   Fruchter, Nathaniel ^a   Dabbish, Laura ^a,b  

^a Human Computer Interaction Institute ^*  (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated decision making; Decontextualized decision making.; Dehumanization; Risk preference; Risktaking; Teledecision; Telemedicine; Telepresence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEO CONFERENCING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

DEHUMANIZATION; RISK PREFERENCE; RISK TAKING; TELEDECISION; TELEPRESENCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84968884409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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