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Working Together Apart [electronic resource] : Collaboration over the Internet / by Judy S. Olson, Gary Olson.

By: Olson, Judy S [author.].
Contributor(s): Olson, Gary [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Edition: 1st ed. 2014.Description: XIII, 137 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031022036.Subject(s): User interfaces (Computer systems) | Human-computer interaction | User Interfaces and Human Computer InteractionAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 005.437 | 004.019 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The Changing Landscape -- Types of Distributed Collaborations -- What It Means to Be Successful -- Overview of Factors that Lead to Success -- The Nature of the Work -- Common Ground -- Collaboration Readiness -- Organization and Management -- Collaboration Technologies and Their Use -- The Science of Collaboratories Database -- The Collaboration Success Wizard -- Summary and Recommendations -- References -- Author Biography.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic. This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations. We close with a set of recommendations for individuals, managers, and those higher in the organizations who wish to support distance work.
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The Changing Landscape -- Types of Distributed Collaborations -- What It Means to Be Successful -- Overview of Factors that Lead to Success -- The Nature of the Work -- Common Ground -- Collaboration Readiness -- Organization and Management -- Collaboration Technologies and Their Use -- The Science of Collaboratories Database -- The Collaboration Success Wizard -- Summary and Recommendations -- References -- Author Biography.

Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic. This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations. We close with a set of recommendations for individuals, managers, and those higher in the organizations who wish to support distance work.

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