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Titolo: | Research recommendations : to facilitate distributed work / / Technology and Telecommuting: Issues and Impacts Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, D. C., : National Academy Press, 1994 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (83 p.) |
Disciplina: | 331.25 |
Soggetto topico: | Telecommuting |
Teams in the workplace | |
Altri autori: | KrautRobert E |
Note generali: | "Support for this project was provided by the Department of Energy (Grant No. DE-FG02-93ER25161)"--t.p. verso. |
"B-498"--t.p. verso. | |
Robert Kraut, chair--p. iii. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71). |
Nota di contenuto: | RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Infrastructure Research -- Applications Research -- CONCLUSION -- 1 Technology and the Changing Workplace -- NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FLEXIBLE WORK -- THIS REPORT -- Approach and Emphasis -- Scope and Definitions-Telecommuting Versus Distributed Work -- TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- The Rise of Distributed Work-Representative Concerns -- Impacts on Transportation and Land Use -- Social Isolation -- Management and Personnel Considerations -- Other Impacts and Public Policy Considerations -- SUMMARY COMMENTS -- 2 Distributed Work: Current Reality and Promise -- ASPECTS OF DISTRIBUTED WORK ENABLED BY COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY -- Information Processing -- Audio and Video Communications -- Audio -- Video and Audio-Video -- Computer-mediated Communications -- Current Uses of Electronic Mail -- Potential Uses of Electronic Mail for Distributed Work -- Information Sharing and Use of Remote Facilities -- THE REALITY OF TODAY'S DISTRIBUTED WORK -- The Mobile Worker-A Composite -- Distributed Education -- Collaborative Work-The Need for New Products Linked to Underlying Databases or Objects -- THE POTENTIAL FOR INCREASED DISTRIBUTED WORK -- 3 Distributed Work and Group Processes -- DISTRIBUTED WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS -- STRATEGIES FOR ACCOMMODATING DISTRIBUTED WORK -- BASIC GROUP PROCESSES TO BE SUPPORTED FOR EFFECTIVE DISTRIBUTED WORK -- Selecting Goals -- Recruiting Group Members -- Managing Distributed Groups -- Obtaining Information -- Text-based Electronic Sources -- Paper Sources -- Individual Sources -- Information Sharing -- 4 Facilitating Distributed Work -- IDENTIFYING BARRIERS TO EXPANSION OF DISTRIBUTED WORK -- Complexity-of-Use Barriers -- Cost-of-Technology Barriers. |
DESIGNING COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT A RANGE OF CAPABILITIES FOR DISTRIBUTED WORK -- Supporting Typical Work Routines -- Envisioning the Applications Enabled by Unlimited Bandwidth -- Enabling Integration of Low-and High-Bandwidth Applications -- MEETING REQUIREMENTS FOR MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION -- User Requirements -- Technology Requirements -- 5 Research Recommendations -- INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH -- Mobile Work -- Multipoint, Multimedia Distributed Work -- APPLICATIONS RESEARCH -- Domain-Specific Research -- Generic Research -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Research recommendations |
ISBN: | 1-280-21094-X |
9786610210947 | |
0-309-58758-1 | |
0-585-02282-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812203403321 |
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