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Learning from Team and Group Diversity: Nurturing and Benefiting from our Heterogeneity

Authors:

Michael Muller,

Susan R. Fussell,

Pamela J. Hinds,

Nigini Oliveira,

Katharina Reinecke,

Lionel Robert, Jr.,

Kanya (Pao) Siangliulue,

Chien-Wen YuanAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 498 - 505

https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359440

Published: 09 November 2019 Publication History

Abstract

By 2019, diversity is an established fact in most workplaces, teams, and work-groups, presenting both old and new challenges to CSCW in terms of team structure and technological supports for increasingly diverse teams. The research literature on diversity and teams has examined many definitions and attributes of diversity, and has described different types of teams, tasks, and measures, with contrasting and even contradictory results. Diversity becomes a strength in some studies, and a burden in others. The literature is similarly complex regarding individual and organizational approaches to realize those strengths, or to mitigate those burdens. In this workshop, we collectively take stock of these complex findings; we consider the several theoretical and methodological efforts to organize these findings; and we propose new research directions to address the "diversity of diversity studies.",0

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Learning from Team and Group Diversity: Nurturing and Benefiting from our Heterogeneity
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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DOI:10.1145/3311957

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