Virtual teams: reaching across space, time, and organizations with technology
Virtual teams: reaching across space, time, and organizations with technology
The Distance Manager: A Hands on Guide to Managing off-Site Employees and Virtual Teams
The Distance Manager: A Hands on Guide to Managing off-Site Employees and Virtual Teams
"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mastering Virtual Teams
The effects from technology-mediated interaction and openness in virtual team performance measures
Behaviour & Information Technology
The effect of violent and non-violent computer games on cognitive performance
Computers in Human Behavior
The changing dynamic of social interaction in World of Warcraft: the impacts of game feature change
ACE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Cooperative games and their effect on group collaboration
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
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With the rapid advance of online gaming and virtual reality technology, virtual teamwork has become increasingly popular. People spend more and more time working with others in 3D virtual environments to accomplish common goals. In this study, we investigate the impact of virtual teamwork on collaboration in the real world. We conducted a study with a sample of 60 participants. These participants were asked to work in groups of three and play a Nintendo Wii music game. Half of the groups were assigned to the control condition where members played the game individually. The other half of the groups were assigned to the experimental condition where members play the game altogether as in a band. After the game play, all groups performed a collaborative problem-solving task and a creativity task. Results show that groups in the experimental condition performed significantly better than the groups in the control condition. This suggests that virtual teamwork has a positive effect on collaborative problem-solving and group creativity in the real world.