A Partial Test of the Task-Medium Fit Proposition in a Group Support System Environment

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-66

  Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, KwokKee ^a   Raman, Krishnamurthy S ^a   Sia, Choon Ling ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Group support systems; Human Factors; media richness; task type; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977106447     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/310641.310643     Document Type: Article

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