Implementation of Collaboration Visualization in Virtual Teams
Speaker: Onn Azraai Puade, ITEE
When: 2006-09-13 10:00:00
Venue: 78-621 and Ipswich building 1 via access grid, UQ Virtual Venue
Host: Dr Stephen Viller
Abstract:Individuals in geographically and temporally dispersed
collaborations utilize various channels of media to communicate and
coordinate their actions. A new form of organizational structure to
emerge from these characteristics is the virtual team. The high
reliance on communication technologies leads to many studies
conducted to enhance communication tools with collaborative
functions and additional social and contextual information. This is
to help individuals in virtual teams to keep track and better
understand the ongoing collaborative process. Email has been
identified as a key collaboration medium in distributed
collaboration. As such, the research proposes an approach to monitor
and derive information from organizational email archives that
characterizes individuals' interactions in a virtual
collaboration. The first phase involves making visible this
information to all the individuals. This is then followed by a
quantitative and qualitative evaluation to assess its effect and
impact. The objective is to gain understanding of such an approach
that can later be translated into functional practices to aid
similar future collaborations.
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Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Dr Stephen Viller, seminar host (viller@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)