We have surveyed ten collaborators’ perceptions on the value of nine communication modes: email, telephone, pen-and-paper, computer conferencing, telephone conferencing, face-to-face, fax, post, and whiteboard. Eight roles were considered: innovator, resource investigator, chair, shaper, evaluator, team worker, organizer, and finisher. Through a repeated measures design, a mapping between these...

Agile software development has become the standard in many companies. While there are reports of major improvements with agile development over traditional development, many teams still strive to work effectively as a team. A multiple case study in two companies discovered challenges related to communication, learning and selecting the tasks according to the priority list. For example, the fact...

We describe the development of a vision-based cooperative localization and tracking framework for a team of small autonomous ground robots operating in an indoor environment. The objective is to enable a team of small mobile ground robots with limited sensing to explore, monitor, and search for objects of interest in regions in the workspace that may be inaccessible to larger mobile ground robo...