TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing the motivational affordance of human-computer interfaces in a cross-cultural setting
AU - Schneider, C.
AU - Valacich, J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Increasing globalization has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for organizations and society. Organizations attempt to draw on people's varied experience, skills, and creativity, regardless of their location; consequently, a broad range of information technologies to better support the collaboration of diverse, and increasingly distributed, sets of participants are ever more utilized. However, research on cross-cultural computer-mediated collaboration has thus far remained sparse. To this end, this research-in-progress paper reports on a study that will examine the effectiveness of modifications of a group collaboration environment's human-computer interface on group performance, taking into consideration the effects of national culture of the group members. We will test different levels of feedback as a mechanism to increase performance in a controlled laboratory experiment with participants from the USA and East Asia, so as to examine their differential effects across cultures differing widely on the individualism/collectivism dimension. Finally, we will discuss the implications of the findings for the design of the human-computer interface for cross-cultural computer-mediated idea generation and computer-mediated collaboration in general.
AB - Increasing globalization has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for organizations and society. Organizations attempt to draw on people's varied experience, skills, and creativity, regardless of their location; consequently, a broad range of information technologies to better support the collaboration of diverse, and increasingly distributed, sets of participants are ever more utilized. However, research on cross-cultural computer-mediated collaboration has thus far remained sparse. To this end, this research-in-progress paper reports on a study that will examine the effectiveness of modifications of a group collaboration environment's human-computer interface on group performance, taking into consideration the effects of national culture of the group members. We will test different levels of feedback as a mechanism to increase performance in a controlled laboratory experiment with participants from the USA and East Asia, so as to examine their differential effects across cultures differing widely on the individualism/collectivism dimension. Finally, we will discuss the implications of the findings for the design of the human-computer interface for cross-cultural computer-mediated idea generation and computer-mediated collaboration in general.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-7908-2632-6_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-7908-2632-6_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84901660976
SN - 9783790826319
T3 - Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations - ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
SP - 271
EP - 278
BT - Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations - ItAIS
PB - Physica-Verlag
T2 - 7th Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, ItAIS 2010
Y2 - 8 October 2010 through 9 October 2010
ER -