Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment
Communications of the ACM
Socially translucent systems: social proxies, persistent conversation, and the design of “babble”
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Effective Virtual Teams
Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Effective Virtual Teams
A finger on the pulse: temporal rhythms and information seeking in medical work
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Object Oriented Team: Lessons for Virtual Teams from Global Software Development
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Virtual teams: a review of current literature and directions for future research
ACM SIGMIS Database
No task left behind?: examining the nature of fragmented work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Human-Computer Interaction
Go (Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams
Organization Science
Embodied social proxy: mediating interpersonal connection in hub-and-satellite teams
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Your time zone or mine?: a study of globally time zone-shifted collaboration
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Collaborative rhythm: temporal dissonance and alignment in collaborative scientific work
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Supporting creative collaboration in globally distributed companies
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Trust in virtual teams: theory and tools
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
"Our life is the farm and farming is our life": home-work coordination in organic farm families
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Facilitating contagion trust through tools in Global Systems Engineering teams
Information and Software Technology
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Geographically distributed work has become a popular way to work. Past CSCW research has shown that remote workers rely on innovative communication platforms but still face challenges being remote. Research has also provided organizational and managerial strategies to bridge the distance gap. Our study in contrast investigates how individuals develop strategies to cope with the daily challenges of working remotely and alone, and what managers can do to help them. We interviewed seventeen individuals involved in remote work about their experiences, identifying unique challenges and their workarounds. Our interview results suggest that, although people may work alone, the process of conducting distributed work is actually very social. Individual remote workers establish a unique kind of work rhythm, visibility management for evaluation, social support infrastructure, and personal connection as a part of their coping strategies to balance their professional and personal lives.