328 research outputs found
Examining the Effect of Social Media Tools on Virtual Team Conflicts: A Process Model
This research investigates how the use of social media tools affects virtual team conflicts. The novel concept of “feature richness”, which is understood as affordances of social media tools, is theorized. Feature richness distinguishes social media tools from other commonly used communication tools in virtual teams. The researchers propose a process model which suggests that operationally, feature richness is understood as the process nature of social media tools. The primary data was collected at corporate organizations in form of a Likert questionnaire. The research findings reveal that social media tools lead to effective communication, which encourages the development of trust, team cohesion and satisfaction in virtual teams. This further reflects in form of reduced virtual team conflicts
UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN VIRTUAL TEAM CONFLICTS
Communication technology is recognized as an important component of a virtual team (VT). Communication technologies other than social media have been linked to VT conflicts by prior research. This research in progress explores using social media to see if any improvements can be made to conflicts in VTs. The researchers emphasize on the “feature richness” of social media which is understood as affordances of social media and it distinguishes social media from other commonly used communication technologies in a VT environment. The researchers theorize that “feature richness” rather than “media richness” of the communication technology can be more beneficial for a virtual team since it is hoped to simultaneously work towards reducing VT conflicts. The researchers propose a conceptual research model that contributes to understanding the mediating role that social media can play in virtual team conflicts
The Effect of the Social Media Tools on Virtual Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Transactive Memory System Mapping with the Feature Richness
The communication tool is an important component of a virtual team, and virtual teams are highly dependent upon the communication tools for accomplishing their tasks and fulfilling their needs effectively. This research in progress builds upon the existing literature and employs the concept of feature richness of social media tools and a Transactive Memory System (TMS) approach to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of social media tools on virtual team performance. Thus, a conceptual research model which postulates that TMS mediates the relationship between social media tools and virtual team performance, is developed. This research tries to establish an appropriate component-level mapping between the components of TMS construct and the feature richness factors to provide a deeper understanding about the effect of social media tools on TMS and consequently, the impact on virtual team performance
Efficient Scopeformer: Towards Scalable and Rich Feature Extraction for Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection
The quality and richness of feature maps extracted by convolution neural
networks (CNNs) and vision Transformers (ViTs) directly relate to the robust
model performance. In medical computer vision, these information-rich features
are crucial for detecting rare cases within large datasets. This work presents
the "Scopeformer," a novel multi-CNN-ViT model for intracranial hemorrhage
classification in computed tomography (CT) images. The Scopeformer architecture
is scalable and modular, which allows utilizing various CNN architectures as
the backbone with diversified output features and pre-training strategies. We
propose effective feature projection methods to reduce redundancies among
CNN-generated features and to control the input size of ViTs. Extensive
experiments with various Scopeformer models show that the model performance is
proportional to the number of convolutional blocks employed in the feature
extractor. Using multiple strategies, including diversifying the pre-training
paradigms for CNNs, different pre-training datasets, and style transfer
techniques, we demonstrate an overall improvement in the model performance at
various computational budgets. Later, we propose smaller compute-efficient
Scopeformer versions with three different types of input and output ViT
configurations. Efficient Scopeformers use four different pre-trained CNN
architectures as feature extractors to increase feature richness. Our best
Efficient Scopeformer model achieved an accuracy of 96.94\% and a weighted
logarithmic loss of 0.083 with an eight times reduction in the number of
trainable parameters compared to the base Scopeformer. Another version of the
Efficient Scopeformer model further reduced the parameter space by almost 17
times with negligible performance reduction. Hybrid CNNs and ViTs might provide
the desired feature richness for developing accurate medical computer vision
model
Discriminative Link Prediction using Local Links, Node Features and Community Structure
A link prediction (LP) algorithm is given a graph, and has to rank, for each
node, other nodes that are candidates for new linkage. LP is strongly motivated
by social search and recommendation applications. LP techniques often focus on
global properties (graph conductance, hitting or commute times, Katz score) or
local properties (Adamic-Adar and many variations, or node feature vectors),
but rarely combine these signals. Furthermore, neither of these extremes
exploit link densities at the intermediate level of communities. In this paper
we describe a discriminative LP algorithm that exploits two new signals. First,
a co-clustering algorithm provides community level link density estimates,
which are used to qualify observed links with a surprise value. Second, links
in the immediate neighborhood of the link to be predicted are not interpreted
at face value, but through a local model of node feature similarities. These
signals are combined into a discriminative link predictor. We evaluate the new
predictor using five diverse data sets that are standard in the literature. We
report on significant accuracy boosts compared to standard LP methods
(including Adamic-Adar and random walk). Apart from the new predictor, another
contribution is a rigorous protocol for benchmarking and reporting LP
algorithms, which reveals the regions of strengths and weaknesses of all the
predictors studied here, and establishes the new proposal as the most robust.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Locosim: an Open-Source Cross-Platform Robotics Framework
The architecture of a robotics software framework tremendously influences the
effort and time it takes for end users to test new concepts in a simulation
environment and to control real hardware. Many years of activity in the field
allowed us to sort out crucial requirements for a framework tailored for
robotics: modularity and extensibility, source code reusability, feature
richness, and user-friendliness. We implemented these requirements and
collected best practices in Locosim, a cross-platform framework for simulation
and real hardware. In this paper, we describe the architecture of Locosim and
illustrate some use cases that show its potential.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted to Clawar 2023, for associated
video see https://youtu.be/ZwV1LEqK-L
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