Creating High-Tech Teams: Practical Guidance on Work Performance and Technology
In Creating High-Tech Teams: Practical Guidance on Work Performance and Technology, leaders in science and industry explore the state-of-the-art in technology and teamwork and translate this information into the best possible guidance for industrial-organizational practitioners. Contributors who work with specific types of technology, such as groupware and data visualization, describe their understanding of how that technology affects teamwork and provide guidance on how to use it. They also...
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In Creating High-Tech Teams: Practical Guidance on Work Performance and Technology, leaders in science and industry explore the state-of-the-art in technology and teamwork and translate this information into the best possible guidance for industrial-organizational practitioners. Contributors who work with specific types of technology, such as groupware and data visualization, describe their understanding of how that technology affects teamwork and provide guidance on how to use it. They also review the most prevalent tools used today and explain how they are applied in a number of industries. The final section of the volume provides a glimpse into the future by discussing various applications of "virtual" teammates, in which part of the team is the technology. The problems that arise with technology and teamwork-and sometimes with their solutions-rarely make it into the pages of scientific journals. Thus much of the information collected in this volume is appearing for the first time anywhere. This, combined with the accessibility of the writing and the fascinating range of fields and technology covered, makes Creating High-Tech Teams an invaluable resource for industrial-organizational psychologists and others working to make teams more effective through technology.
ContributorsviiAcknowledgmentsixIntroduction: Creating High-Tech Teams3IHigh Technology to Support Teamwork9Chapter 1Groupware, Group Dynamics, and Team Performance11Chapter 2Enabling Team Decision Making35Chapter 3Effects of Data Visualizations on Group Decision Making51IIHigh-Tech Teams in Action69Chapter 4Cognition, Teams, and Team Cognition: Memory Actions and Memory Failures in Distributed Team Environments71Chapter 5Exploration and Context in Communication Analysis89Chapter 6Enhancing Command and Control Teamwork in Operation Enduring Freedom113Chapter 7Operational Concepts, Teamwork, and Technology in Commercial Nuclear Power Stations139Chapter 8Group Performance and Space Flight Teams161IIIThe Future of Teamwork: Technology as a Team Member183Chapter 9Virtual Teams: Creating Context for Distributed Teamwork185Chapter 10Understanding and Developing Virtual Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Teams213Chapter 11Automated Systems in the Cockpit: Is the Autopilot, "George," a Team Member?243Chapter 12Training Teamwork With Synthetic Teams261Creating High-Tech Teams: A Conclusion283Author Index289Subject Index299About the Editors313
