Abstract: This article describes a quantitative study of university students’ perceptions of collaborative learning opportunities. Two cohorts of university students were surveyed: students enrolled at a US institution, and students enrolled at a German university. Results indicate that German students value collaborative learning experiences more than their US counterparts. INTRODUCTION Prepar...

The project described in this paper exemplifies how interaction design students can be prepared for working in groups that are part of a larger, complex, multidisciplinary structure. It shows how a task can be designed to engage a whole class of students, letting each student be a member of at least two groups; one related to that student's assigned discipline, and one related to the sub-projec...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between group cohesion and the perceived culture and desired culture of work teams. Two separate studies were carried out with a time interval of one year. The first study had a sample of 50 work teams belonging to different organizations and the second study had a sample of 75 work teams. We used Lindell's index of agreement to estimate th...

Design and evaluation of systems is facilitated by a comprehensive understanding of requirements. The space within which requirements for group-work systems are considered is often limited to negotiated forms of work organisation. This fails to capture requirements for group-work in which organisation is imposed, not negotiated. In this paper, we develop the requirements space for group-working...

ABSTRACT Utility analysis offers numan resource management a powerful framework for decision making. Previous research has indicated that this framework can provide dollar-valued estimates of the consequences of human resource decisions. Moreover, this framework provides a general model of decision costs and benefits that can help organize and integrate human resource management decisions and r...

This chapter provides a conceptual framework for research and practice in geovisualization and for visualization as a facilitator for group work with geospatial information. This framework identifies three primary functions for visual representations as a vehicle to support groupwork. First, visual representations can act as the object of collaboration, thus as an entity to discuss, create, or ...