Influences on Creativity in Asynchronous Virtual Teams: A Qualitative Analysis of Experimental Teams

Ocker, Rosalie J.

doi:10.1109/tpc.2004.843294

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“…Previous work on asynchronous virtual teams concludes that, despite the fact that there are elements that complicate creativity, the chance to connect a huge number of people has great potential for establishing a collaborative environment that generates a creativity stimulation on its own (Ocker 2005). A more recent study demonstrates that distributed collaborative work produces better results in idea generation when teams work in a synchronous mode than when they do so in an asynchronous mode (Rahman et al 2012).…”

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The effect of information and communication technologies on creativity in collaborative design

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This study compares the degree of creativity of forty-two conceptual designs proposed as solutions to two innovative design problems developed in face-to-face and virtual collaborative environments. The solutions obtained were evaluated by three experts applying the Moss metric, which considers the level of usefulness and the level of unusualness. The average values and the trends of the data were obtained and an analysis of the variance was also performed to determine whether the environment influences the degree of creativity. The results show that it cannot be proved that the level of creativity is influenced by working face-to-face or virtually, that is, whether Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are used or not has no effect on the final result.

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“…Normalization can occur within creative groups where the majority of members do not have a well-defined norm or solution, and they converge on an average response [26].…”

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“…(c) Majority influence: This can occur in situations when a minority opinion holder(s) exist among a group of otherwise majority opinion holders [26]. The majority achieves influence as it exerts social pressure on the deviant minority opinion holder, causing him or her to conform to the majority opinion so that the group can achieve uniformity [26].…”

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Supporting creativity with awareness in distributed collaboration

Farooq

Carroll

Ganoe

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP '07

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Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-considered; (2) Novel ideas were easily lost; (3) There was a lack of critical evaluation of perspectives; (4) Reflexivity was weak during convergence. We propose two design strategies, illustrated with mock-ups, to support creativity with awareness: (1) Automatically summarize and recommend ideational activities from system logs; (2) Allow collaborators to enter status of work activity, making these activity updates visible on social and temporal dimensions. Our analysis also suggests an integrated framework of metrics to evaluate creativity as a long-term collaborative activity.

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“…However, this is not a realistic expectation, particularly for groups engaged in the early, problem formulation stage of problem solving activities. For non-routine problems, problem formulation is an unstructured and ambiguous activity that consists of both divergent and convergent thought processes [22], and as such provides a rich opportunity for creativity [23][24][25].…”

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The Tension Between Expectations of Availability and the Reality of Availability in Hybrid Teams

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Huang

Trauth

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IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. The demands of the global world increasingly dictate that people travel in order to conduct work. Oftentimes, this means that team members are neither strictly here nor there. Teams such as these are hybrids, where members alternate between co-located and distributed contexts. The pervasive nature of information and communication technologies, however, continues to impose an expectation of availability on the team members even as they travel. In this paper, we take a reflexive research stance to inform our understanding of the complexities of accomplishing knowledge work within a hybrid team configuration. An illustrative case highlights issues and outcomes associated with member availability that arose during the writing of a research paper. Categorical reasons for member unavailability are identified and contrasted with the expectation of availability. We suggest that the issues and conflict we experienced may be traced to the ambiguous nature of the task and the early project phase requiring problem formulation.

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Influences on Creativity in Asynchronous Virtual Teams: A Qualitative Analysis of Experimental Teams

Cited by 81 publications

References 35 publications

The effect of information and communication technologies on creativity in collaborative design

The effect of information and communication technologies on creativity in collaborative design

Supporting creativity with awareness in distributed collaboration

The Tension Between Expectations of Availability and the Reality of Availability in Hybrid Teams

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