Seeing the project: mapping patterns of intra-team communication events

  • Authors:
  • William Hart-Davidson

  • Affiliations:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Documentation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper reports the results of a qualitative study of the communication patterns of two student teams engaged in a design and documentation task. All communication events for each team are recorded and analyzed to produce displays that show how well-coordinated each team was throughout the project. The sorting and mapping methods presented suggest a new class of features for groupware applications, features designed to allow members of collaborative teams to monitor and adjust their communication patterns during the lifecycle of a project.