Creating a team building toolkit for distributed teams

  • Authors:

  • Weigang Wang;Stephen Mogan

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Informatics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.;School of Informatics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • CSCWD'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Team building exercises are often carried out in a face-to-face setting using traditional tools, such as color pens, cards and pin boards. The success of such group exercises depends largely on the experience of facilitators. To support such activities for distributed teams, task-specific tools and coordination mechanisms are needed. In this paper, a cooperative hypermedia approach is presented for developing and guiding the use of the team building tools. The resulting cooperative hypermedia system provides not only general groupware support, but also an application framework for team members to create and customize team-building tools for various team building exercises. The novelty of the work is reflected on its flexible coordination support for facilitators and its seamless connection between tools used for each phase of a team building exercise. Two examples are given to show how team building tools can be built and customized with the approach.