Games for virtual team building

Towards Genuine Virtual Collaboration: Designing the Use of Mobile Remote Presence in Offshore-Outsourced Projects

“…As we found, using the Double is quite fun, and we hope that this will be a lighthearted social interaction that will aid relationship development. This is also influenced by findings from Ellis (2008) emphasizing fun and engagement as an effective strategy in early team building exercises [40].…”

“…This is particularly in terms of meeting location and scheduling. The practical measures proposed in this research offer strategies for implementing MRP to overcome the issue of conversations in virtual teams being overly task-focused, to the detriment of relational links between team members [40].…”

Using virtual interactions to explore leadership and collaboration in globally distributed teams

“…We modified a puzzle game developed in Second Life® called Crossing the Ravine [13]. In the original game, a team setting out to explore a world encounters an impassable ravine.…”

“…Cooperative virtual world games have potential for teambuilding among distributed co-workers [13]. Many social affordances of virtual worlds -factors such as embodiment, the sense of co-presence in a physical-like environment, and the ability to support rich behavioral interactionscould be useful in addressing virtual team challenges.…”

The Chinese Game Room: Play, Productivity, and Computing at Their Limits

“…After all, corporate work is becoming increasing virtualized (Ellis et al, 2008) and online gaming often resembles real work (Yee, 2006). One common misconception that non-gaming executives cling to when observing online games for the first time is that the magic ingredient lies in the 3D -particularly the avatars.…”