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@Article{Vick:1998:PPC,
  author =       "Rita Vick",
  title =        "Perspectives on and Problems with Computer-Mediated
                 Teamwork: Current Groupware Issues and Assumptions",
  journal =      j-ASTERISK,
  volume =       "22",
  number =       "2",
  pages =        "3--22",
  month =        may,
  year =         "1998",
  CODEN =        "ASTRF7",
  ISSN =         "0731-1001",
  bibdate =      "Wed Dec 06 08:46:56 2000",
  bibsource =    "http://web.mit.edu/tps/www/NL/SIGDOC_WWW/jcdtoc/sigtoc.html;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/jcd.bib",
  abstract =     "Technologies designed to facilitate teamwork,
                 especially among physically dispersed teams, are well
                 known but little used. This paper explores the
                 conceptual background for such ``groupware'' and for
                 the resistance to using it, especially among
                 cross-cultural team members at global corporations.
                 Recognized groupware problems include the heavy
                 cognitive burden of learning new software, excessive
                 note keeping, organizational lethargy, and conflicts
                 with the company reward system. Apparent differences
                 among world cultures seem another likely barrier to
                 international adoption of groupware, but this has
                 received little empirical study. Vick proposes
                 experiments to detect whether cultural diversity helps
                 or impedes teamwork, and whether groupware helps or
                 hinders cross-cultural teams. Immediately following
                 Vick's paper, three commentators explore its
                 implications. Brent Auernheimer (23-26) points out that
                 (international) software engineering teams provide good
                 test cases for assessing groupware value. J. C.
                 Nordbotten (27-29) agrees that past studies have
                 neglected distributed and heterogeneous teams, but
                 notes the problems of designing sound experiments on
                 this topic. Finally, Raymond Panko and Susan Kinney
                 (30-33) report studies of their own showing that the
                 more satisfied team members are with their current
                 work, the less incentive they have to adopt demanding,
                 expensive new technologies such as groupware.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

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