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Coordination, overload and team performance: effects of team communication strategies

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 275 - 284

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-009-0

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Susan R. Fussell	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Robert E. Kraut	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
F. Javier Lerch	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
William L. Scherlis	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Matthew M. McNally	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Jonathan J. Cadiz	Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA

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SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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