The influences of communication media and decision-making technique on team decision outcomes: A critical assessment of the stepladder approach

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 22-27-March-1997, Issue , 1997, Pages 240-241

  Foster, Lori L ^a   Coovert, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Computer mediated decision making; Team decision making

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMMUNICATION MEDIA; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKERS; GROUP STRUCTURE; TEAM DECISION; TEAM MEMBERS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85008423092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1120212.1120371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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