Abstract
Teams collaborate in different contexts within organisations to share information with its members in achieving their targets. Collaborations with face-to-face meetings are prevalent despite the emergence of numerous tools to support distributed team collaborations. However, the nature of tool-support for team collaborations in the last decade was focused on supporting distributed and web-mediated meetings. Furthermore the tools were either not designed to support all the processes within team collaboration or not readily adopted by users. Literature on developing an integrated tool-support that includes all the potential processes within a meeting, and learning lessons whilst designing tools to improve the state of their adoption is largely unexplored. This paper reports on a qualitative study that observed twenty team meetings from five organisations in South Australia and analysed the data using a grounded theory approach to generate stories on team activities. The stories were used to develop a tool-kit framework and lessons on providing a tool support for team meetings.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | International Journal of Computer Applications |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Team collaboration
- Team meetings
- Tool-kit
- Tool-support