Collaborative Analysis among virtual teams: an experience

  • A. C. Pithon
  • M. R. Brochado
  • F. S. Sandonato
  • B. M. Teixeira

The virtual work modifies establish habits of teamwork, therefore the experience is lived deeply not to be physically together in workstation while tasks are carried through. This new form to work extends the concepts of space and time. Nowadays, innovations in communication area and computer science generate new behaviours and new organization styles resultant by new kinds of dissemination of knowledge and new social interactions. Thus these innovations in the services of communications´ nets come reinforce cooperative work, especially the based one on CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). This article presents an analysis of application boarding of CSCW in a virtual environment developed by two separate work groups for the distance.The objectives of each one of the groups were distinct. While the group "A" would have to mount a team based on cooperative work, group "B" would have to analyze the functioning of a small company and to search in the group "A" , through only virtual interactions, subsidies for the elaboration of an improvement proposal.

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