Virtual teams (ie, geographically distributed collaborations that rely on technology to
communicate and cooperate) are central to maintaining our increasingly globalized social …

Hackathons are events where people who are not normally collocated converge for a few
days to write code together. Hackathons, it seems, are everywhere. We know that long-term …

How can instructors group students into teams that interact and learn effectively together?
One strand of research advocates for grou** students into teams with" good" compositions …

Distance learners often experience social isolation and impoverished social interaction with
their remote peers. To better understand the connections that distance learners are able to …

Geographic dispersion has been proposed as one means to promote cooperation and
coordination in teams high in perceived diversity. However, research has found mixed …

Distributed software development allows firms to leverage cost advantages and place work
near centers of competency. This distribution comes at a cost--distributed teams face …

Trust is a factor that dramatically contributes to the success or failure of distributed software
teams. We present a research model showing that social communication between distant …

Adequate tool support is paramount to enable distributed teamwork, and thus global
software teams usually rely on a Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) to cope …

We present SocialCDE, a tool that aims at augmenting Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) platforms with social awareness to facilitate the establishment of interpersonal …

Personal Information Management (PIM) is the art of getting things done in our lives through
information. How do we-can we better-manage our information at home, at school, at work …