The essential ingredients of collaboration

Authors:
Roy Soliman;Robin Braun;Simeon Simoff
Affiliations:
University of Technology, Sydney;University of Technology, Sydney;University of Technology, Sydney
Venue:
CTS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Collaborative technologies and systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We propose there are eight essential ingredients for collaboration, regardless of any underlying technology - including face-to-face environments. These ingredients are: two or more people; shared space; time; a common objective; focus on the objective; common language; knowledge in the area of the objective; and interaction. These ingredients are useful for identifying aspects for improvement in both collaboration technology and human collaboration processes. Based on these essential ingredients glimpses of future technology can be seen.