Developing complex group products: Idea combination in computer-mediated and face-to-face groups

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dc.contributor.authorCummings, Anne
dc.contributor.authorSchlosser, Ann
dc.contributor.authorArrow, Holly
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how group experience, communication medium, and strategies for combining individual ideas influence the integrative complexity of group products. Each week for six weeks, members of 31 work groups wrote individual essays about their group tasks and experiences, and then collaborated on a group essay on the same topic. Results indicate that in the later weeks of the study, computer-mediated groups produce essays with higher integrative complexity than those of face-to-face groups. The integrative complexity of essays in later weeks is a joint function of the complexity of member ideas and the number of members who participate directly in writing the essay (scribes). The greater complexity of computer-mediated groups' essays in the later weeks of the study is partly accounted for by their use of more scribes and their inclusion of more unique member ideas.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/BF00749748
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3486
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 4, No. 2-3
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectcollaborative writing
dc.subjectcomputer-mediated communication
dc.subjectcomputer-supported collaborative work
dc.subjectgroup cognition
dc.subjectgroup learning
dc.subjectIntegrative complexity
dc.subjectsocial combination
dc.titleDeveloping complex group products: Idea combination in computer-mediated and face-to-face groupsen
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