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Distance collaborations are hard because today’s technology, though increasingly sophisticated and decreasingly expensive, is a far cry from being sufficient. One needs technologies to support the myriad of things you get for free when you are collocated: awareness of the state of the other people, often knowing what they are working on, the environmental factors that may impact the work (e.g., impending tornadoes, blizzard), information about the person that engenders trust, etc. (Kiesler and Cummings, 2002). Very few people have the technologies in place to provide all that information. Distance makes communication of all you need to know difficult.
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Olson, J.S., Olson, G.M. (2014). The Nature of the Work. In: Working Together Apart. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02203-6_5
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