Knowledge Integration in Global Engineering

Enriched Cyberspace Through Adaptive Multimedia Utilization for Dependable Remote Collaboration

“…Research suggests, however, that companies are struggling to deal with the myriad problems arising from the use of such global virtual teams (GVT) [9]. Much of this struggle seems to stem from the nature of GVT [10].…”

“…Finally, these aspects make it complicated for project managers to build a common goal and a task strategy as well as cohesion between the team members. Sometimes "face-to-face meetings" or a "coming together" are arranged to overcome this problem in global engineering or GVT [10], [11].…”

“…Cooperation in team work means to be responsible for one's own field of duty and to be aware of the interfaces to one's team colleagues. Cooperation is driven by the openminded behavior of the team members to transfer information, expertise, and results to his colleagues [10].…”

“…"Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a generic term which combines the way people work in groups with the enabling technologies of computer networking and associated hardware, software, services, and techniques" as outlined by Wilson in [10]. Burger integrated the classification of CSCW-technologies in the 3C-Model of Teufel [10], [19].…”