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Workplace Connectors as Facilitators for Work

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Through a wide range of information technologies information workers are continuing to expand their circle of contacts. In tandem, research is also focusing more and more on the role that both face-to-face and distributed interactions play in accomplishing work. Though some empirical studies have illustrated the importance of informal interaction and networks in establishing collaborations (e.g. Nardi et al, 2002; Whittaker, Isaacs, et al, 1997), there is still a need for more in situ research to understand how different types of interactions support group work.

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  1. University of California, Irvine, USA

    Norman Makoto Su & Gloria Mark

  2. The Aerospace Corporation, USA

    Stewart A. Sutton

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  1. Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Charles Steinfield

  2. Department of Accounting and Information Systems The Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Brian T. Pentland

  3. School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Mark Ackerman

  4. Department of Speech Communication, Department of Psychology, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Noshir Contractor

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Su, N.M., Mark, G., Sutton, S.A. (2007). Workplace Connectors as Facilitators for Work. In: Steinfield, C., Pentland, B.T., Ackerman, M., Contractor, N. (eds) Communities and Technologies 2007. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_7

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