Knowledge collaboration is an effective management method to promote the appreciations of intellectual capital and social capital. In a virtual team, team atmosphere, team network and the individual attributes, etc. shall affect the performance of knowledge collaboration (KC) in different degrees. The paper will build the theoretical framework that affects the performance of virtual team’s know...

This paper presents a prototype digital game that integrates team communication and psychophysiological measures as components of play. Our game, PhysiRogue, adds an affective dimension to the location-aware augmented reality game, Rogue Signals. We are using this experimental platform to explore the complementary roles of human-to-human and computer-to-human communication in team cognition. Ph...

The management of globally distributed software teams is complex because of problems of linguistic differences, geographical dispersion, different time zones, and the cultural diversity of the team members; what is particularly common in software development environments. These problems are amplified when a single software development team is composed of highly skilled individuals working in di...

We are developing an Internet platform called MediaTeam that provides a marketplace connecting media content consumers to communities of media content creators. The platform is enabled by our method for automated assembly of virtual project teams. Media creators use the automated team assembler to quickly identify and team with collaborators. The team assembly platform factors in how the skills...

Purpose – Using the developmental process of interpersonal relationships as a metaphor, the purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effects of trust and cohesion on the links between psychosocial factors and work outcomes among Chinese employees. Design/methodology/approach – A three-wave survey method was used to collect data from 388 full-time employees working in virtual teams in d...

This article makes recommendations to help team leaders effectively use ICT channels to develop and improve trust within their distributed virtual teams which will allow achieving a more effective team collaboration. Based on thorough review of the literature and content analysis, we have identified 29 factors for trust-building in this environment based on Cognitive Trust and seven factors bas...