Journal
APPLIED ERGONOMICS
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 1-26Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.04.009
Keywords
Collaboration; Collaborative work; Virtual teams; Collaborative engineering; CoSpaces collaborative working model
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- CoSpaces Integrated Project [FP6-IST-5-034245]
- European Commission
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The ability of organisations to support collaborative working environments is of increasing importance as they move towards more distributed ways of working. Despite the attention collaboration has received from a number of disparate fields, there is a lack of a unified understanding of the component factors of collaboration. As part of our work on a European Integrated Project, CoSpaces, collaboration and collaborative working and the factors which define it were examined through the literature and new empirical work with a number of partner user companies in the aerospace, automotive and construction sectors. This was to support development of a descriptive human factors model of collaboration the CoSpaces Collaborative Working Model (CCWM). We identified seven main categories of factors involved in collaboration: Context, Support, Tasks, Interaction Processes, Teams, Individuals, and Overarching Factors, and summarised these in a framework which forms a basis for the model. We discuss supporting evidence for the factors which emerged from our fieldwork with user partners, and use of the model in activities such as collaboration readiness profiling. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.
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