Working Together Apart: What Is Needed for Success?

Gary Olson
Paul M. Fitts Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Associate Dean for Research
School of Information
University of Michigan
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7:00pm
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
411 West Hall (Ehrlicher Room) directions...

In the past several decades there have been a series of attempts to build collaboration infrastructure to support geographically distributed science and engineering teams. Only some of these projects have been successful, and all of them have been one-off, ad hoc efforts. The NSF-funded Science of Collaboratories project seeks to understand the social and technical conditions required for success, and to codify these in principles and design guidelines for future such efforts. I will describe the goals and methods of the project, and share preliminary findings.