11 research outputs found
Human-Human Collaboration in Virtual Teams
Extended and networked enterprises distribute the design of products, planning of the production process, and manufacturing regionally if not globally. Employees are therefore confronted with collaborative work over remote sites. A cost effective collaboration depends highly on the organization maintaining a common understanding for this kind of work and a suitable support with information and communication technology. The usual face to face work is going to be replaced at least partly if not totally by computer mediated collaboration. Creating and maintaining virtual teams is a challenge to work conditions as well as technology. New developments on cost-effective connections are providing not only vision and auditory perception but also haptic perception. Research results for improving remote collaboration are presented. Individual, social and cultural aspects are considered as new requirements on the employees of networked and extended enterprises.working teams; networks; production process; collaborative work; virtual teams; ICT
Human-Human Collaboration in Virtual Teams
Extended and networked enterprises distribute the design of products, planning of the production process, and manufacturing regionally if not globally. Employees are therefore confronted with collaborative work over remote sites. A cost effective collaboration depends highly on the organization maintaining a common understanding for this kind of work and a suitable support with information and communication technology. The usual face to face work is going to be replaced at least partly if not totally by computer mediated collaboration. Creating and maintaining virtual teams is a challenge to work conditions as well as technology. New developments on cost-effective connections are providing not only vision and auditory perception but also haptic perception.
Research results for improving remote collaboration are presented. Individual, social and cultural aspects are considered as new requirements on the employees of networked and extended enterprises
Institutional factors governing the deployment of remote experiments: lessons from the rexnet project
Remote labs offer many unique advantages to
students as they provide opportunities to access experiments
and learning scenarios that would be otherwise unavailable.
At the same time, however, these opportunities introduce
real challenges to the institutions hosting the remote labs.
This paper draws on the experiences of the REXNET
project consortium to expose a number of these issues as a
means of furthering the debate on the value of remote labs
and the best practices in deploying them. The paper
presents a brief outline of the various types of remote lab
scenarios that might be deployed. It then describes the key
human and technological actors that have an interest in or
are intrinsic to a remote lab instance, with a description of
the role of each actor and their interest. Some relationships
between these various actors are then discussed with some
factors that might influence those relationships. Finally
some general issues are briefly described
Remote experimentation network - yielding an inter-university peer-to-peer e-service
The goal of this paper is to discuss the benefits and challenges of yielding an inter-continental network of remote laboratories supported and used by both European and Latin American Institutions of Higher Education. Since remote experimentation, understood as the ability to carry out real-world experiments through a simple Web browser, is already a proven solution for the educational community as a supplement to on-site practical lab work (and in some cases, namely for distance learning courses, a replacement to that work), the purpose is not to discuss its technical, pedagogical, or economical strengths, but rather to raise and try to answer some questions about the underlying benefits and challenges of establishing a peer-to-peer network of remote labs. Ultimately, we regard such a network as a constructive mechanism to help students gain the working and social skills often valued by multinational/global companies, while also providing awareness of local cultural aspects