Misuse or abuse of digital media can create negativities such as internet addiction, netlessphobia, cyberbullying, cyberloafing. Cyber loafing is known the use employees in a workplace for non-work activities during working hours. This study aims to examine cyberloafing levels students studying Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus. In this study, descriptive survey model was used. The group compose...

Knowledge sharing visibility is a critical environmental factor which can reduce social loafing in knowledge sharing. This is especially true in IT-based knowledge sharing. As such, it is imperative that we better understand how to design IT-based Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) to support high knowledge sharing visibility. This paper examines the impact of knowledge management technology fu...

Collaboration is increasingly distributed and influenced by the technologies involved in the workspace. 3D Virtual Worlds (VWs) are rich and promising collaboration tools that provide highly interactive environments. Several researchers and practitioners are particularly interested in the potential of these new media to support collaborative practices. However, the literature does not provide y...

Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively. The present research tested the social compensation hypothesis, which states that people will work harder collectively than individually when they expect their co-workers to perform poorly on a meaningful task. In 3 experiments, participants worked either collectively or coactively on an idea...

Two experiments examine how collaboration influences visual search performance. Working with a partner or on their own, participants reported whether a target was present or absent in briefly presented search displays. We compared the search performance of individuals working together (collaborative pairs) with the pooled responses of the individuals working alone (nominal pairs). Collaborative...

A new protocol similar to EPA method TO-14A was established to quantify and report variations in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different ground level area sources (GLAS) in a free-stall dairy in central Texas. The objective of the study was to estimate and compare methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emission factors (EFs) from different GLAS using this new protoco...

The use of a public screen in electronic brainstorming has often been justified as a tool for sharing ideas. Little attention has been given to how such a tool influences group performance in terms of the quality of ideas generated. This article attempts to assess sources of influences the public screen manipulation may have on group performance. Using a laboratory experiment, 274 university st...

While ICT-supported teams are increasingly popular, most suffer from a phenomenon called social loafing (SL). SL is the tendency to withhold one’s effort when working with others. Past research has examined various determinants and mechanisms of SL but the relationships between IT and SL have remained largely unexplored. Our objectives are to identify the key factors that play a role in SL in I...