The performance of a cross-functional team depends on the skillful and innovative combination of information and expertise from all team members. Communication is the medium through which team members share the information required for successful amalgamation. In this work, we postulate that both high and low levels of team communication can impede team performance, thus leading to a curvilinea...

The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to investigate the effect of two forms of presenting verbal information (co-located and non colocated) on learning and retention of knowledge in a desktop virtual environment. Co-located information refers to the spatial relationship between linguistic information (text and sound) and virtual reality objects. The effects of co-located informat...

Cross-cultural offshoring in software development challenges effective knowledge sharing. While research has suggested temporarily co-locating participants to address this challenge, few studies are available on what knowledge sharing practices emerge over time when co-locating cross-cultural software developers. This paper presents a longitudinal case study of an offshoring project with co-loc...

As organizations grow in size, geographical scope, and complexity, it is increasingly apparent that sponsorship and support of communities of practice—groups whose members regularly engage in sharing and learning, based on common interests—can improve organizational performance. Although many authors assert that communities of practice create organizational value, there has been relatively litt...

This paper outlines a study into the effects of colocation of haptic and visual sensory modes in VR simulations. The study hypothesis is that co-location of these sensory modes will lead to improved task performance and enhanced sense of presence within a VR environment. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect on user performance of co-located haptic feedback. Results show that co-loc...

Virtual teams, enabled by information technology, represent a new organizational form that has the potential to change the workplace and provide organizations with increased levels of flexibility and responsiveness. A gap exists in the current information systems literature. Previous studies seem to implicitly assume that virtual teams will be self-directed—i.e., that managerial control mechani...

Yahoo! is on track to realize its goal of real-time enterpriselevel reporting. Accessing real-time reports allows executives and decision makers to program content and advertising in a way that benefits both the business and the end user. This paper describes our legacy architecture, as well as a new, low latency pipeline. In particular, we show that by using a combination of novel JavaScript i...

Multimodal visual haptic user interfaces can be made more effective by accurately colocating the workspaces of their components. We have developed a coregistration technique for pose measurement devices based on nonlinear least squares parameter estimation. A reduced quaternion parameterization is used for representing the orientation component of coordinate transformations, which avoids the nu...

This paper describes the “vectored” transmission technique for digital subscriber line (DSL) systems, which utilizes user coordination at the central office or optical network unit. This method exploits the colocation of the downstream transmitters and of the upstream receivers, in order to achieve far-end crosstalk (FEXT) cancellation and perform multiuser transmission optimization. The perfor...