Nowadays, Collaborative Virtual Environments offer new working methods allowing for the association of several experts in the same problem-solving process. These new platforms have the potential to improve the processing of complex environments with large dataflow and requiring different skills. This article proposes the investigation of a synchronous and colocated approach for a molecular desi...

Viewed through the lens of complex systems science, one may conceptualize problemsolving interactions among multiple actors, artifacts, tools, and environmental structures as goal-seeking adaptations, and problem-solving itself, as a complex adaptive activity. Theories of biological evolution point to an analogical equivalence between problem solving and evolutionary processes and, thus, introd...

Meetings, owning a central role in engineering projects, are the major way of performing the information exchange necessary for other engineers to make progress in their mutually depending tasks. They also play a central role in getting consensus and in achieving quality. However, when project members are not colocated this works less well. Travelling, standard remedy for this, is not an accept...

The literature on new product development has examined several important determinants of collaboration among project members. However, we are not aware of any study that links top management decisions with project members’ collaborative behavior. To address this significant gap, this study examines how perceived procedural justice in top management decisions regarding new products is related to...

Solving problems is considered as a very important learning activity in formal educational settings concerning all grades of education from primary to tertiary education. Students’ engagement in problem solving activities helps them to acquire not only knowledge and skills on a subject domain but also useful attitudes such as thinking, flexibility, creativity, and productivity which are very im...

Question asking is central to the interactions that take place in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) settings. We investigate questioning and responding practices as interactional processes and explore their roles in online collaborative problem solving. We present our analysis of a 12-minute excerpt of three students doing math problem solving collaboratively in an online chat en...

The authors describe "collaborative problem solving," a cognitive-behavioral approach for working with aggressive children and adolescents. The model conceptualizes aggressive behavior as the byproduct of lagging cognitive skills in the domains of flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving. The goal is to train staff to assess specific cognitive skills that may be contributing to c...

Background: Infertility is deemed as a crisis, which typically involves both minor and major losses requiring different coping strategies to successfully adjust, adapt and preserve the emotional balance. Alternative ways has been recommended to cope with this problem in infertile couples. The present study was designed to examine the effect of collaborative counseling on problemfocused coping s...

Collaborative problem solving in e-learning can take in the form of discussion among learner, creating a highly social learning environment and characterized by participation and interactivity. This paper, designed a collaborative learning environment where agent act as co-learner, can play different roles during interaction. Since different roles have been assigned to the agent, learner will a...