How Group Dynamics Affect Team Achievements in Virtual Environments

Supporting Team Work in Collaborative Virtual Environments

In this paper we present our approach in creating Collaborative Virtual Environments to provide distributed collaborative teams with a virtual space where they can meet as if face-to-face, coexist and collaborate while sharing and manipulating a set of virtual data in real time. Thereby our approach moves beyond mere integration of video-conferencing and scienti c visualization, to create a des...

Using Artificial Team Members for Team Training in Virtual Environments

In a good team, members do not only perform their individual task, they also coordinate their actions with other members of the team. Developing such team skills usually involves exercises with all members playing their role. This approach is costly and has organizational and educational drawbacks. We developed a more efficient and flexible approach by setting training in virtual environments, ...

Using mobile group dynamics and virtual time to improve teamwork in large-scale collaborative virtual environments

Mobile group dynamics (MGDs) assist synchronous working in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), and virtual time (VT) extends the benefits to asynchronous working. The present paper describes the implementation of MGDs (teleporting, awareness and multiple views) and VT (the utterances of 23 previous users were embedded in a CVE as conversation tags), and their evaluation using an urban pl...

An Investigation of Group Development Process in "Virtual" Project Team Environments

In this field study, the group development process in a "virtual" project team environment characterized by distributed team members working across time and/or geography for thcduration of the project in anon-face-to-face model was investigated. The primary research question was, "How do groups develop in virtual project team environments and what role docs groupware technology play in that dev...

Emergence of Leadership and Its Impact on Group Performance in Virtual Team Environments: A Field Study