We look for evidence of stigmergic coordination (i.e., coordination mediated by changes to a shared work product) in the context of Wikipedia. Using a novel approach to identifying edits to the same part of a Wikipedia article, we show that a majority ...

Affect has been identified as an important component of the communication practices of distributed teams. Our emerging theory of distributed affect moves beyond the individual as the primary unit of analysis, focusing instead on affect as a dynamic ...

Historically, the study of affect has been intimately tied to theories of both cognition and creativity, and there are still unexplored connections between these related phenomena. This paper discusses research to expand and refine the formulation of ...

This Perspectives article seeks to redirect research on distributed also referred to as virtual groups, a well-established organizational phenomenon in which group members are separated by one or more forms of distance e.g., geographic or temporal. Such ...

This Perspectives article seeks to redirect research on distributed also referred to as virtual groups, a well-established organizational phenomenon in which group members are separated by one or more forms of distance e.g., geographic or temporal. Such ...

This Perspectives article seeks to redirect research on distributed also referred to as virtual groups, a well-established organizational phenomenon in which group members are separated by one or more forms of distance e.g., geographic or temporal. Such ...

The study of creativity has received significant attention over the past century, with a recent increase in interest in collaborative, distributed creativity. We posit that creativity in distributed groups is fostered by software interfaces that ...

An ethnographic study of a team of software developers working on a new product across two groups---located on the West Coast of the United States and in Bangalore, India---is used to analyze status dynamics in distributed groups. Whereas existing ...

This paper reports on the emergent use of lightweight text chat to provide important grounding and facilitation information in a large, distributed, ad-hoc group of researchers participating in a live experiment. The success of chat in this setting ...

There has been relatively little research on the impact of different levels of video quality on users of multimedia communication systems. This paper describes a study examining the impact of two levels of video frame rate on pairs and groups of four ...

Organizations are increasingly interested in facilitating collaboration in distributed groups. In this study, I examine three distributed groups of technical support engineers at a large high technology company who have integrated a real-time text chat ...

Abstract: Multicast routing is an important topic of both theoretical and practical interest. Several proposed multicast routing algorithms involve the designation of one or more network nodes as the "center" of the routing tree for each multicast ...