Distributed collaboration over the Internet has become increasingly common in recent years, supported by various technologies such as virtual workspace systems. Often such collabo...
We study the development of common ground in an emergency management planning task. Twelve three-person multi-role teams performed the task with a paper prototype in a controlled ...
Gregorio Convertino, Helena M. Mentis, Mary Beth R...
Emergency management and planning often involves multiple domain experts with diverse knowledge backgrounds and responsibilities. Current practices in emergency management and pla...
This paper explores the critical role conversational coherence plays in facilitating the ongoing, distributed work of one virtual team as they engage in instant messaging (IM) con...
Stephanie L. Woerner, JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlik...
This paper is concerned with how collaborative virtual environments can be structured in order to enable greater scalability and yet maintain a richness of communication. Based on...