http://www.bibsonomy.org/burst/user/fcalefato/reticollab0708BibSonomy BuRST Feed for /user/fcalefato/reticollab07082008-07-21T00:55:24+02:00http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e56a6e58a6c0364a768d24fee61899ea/fcalefatofcalefato2007-10-03T13:42:30+02:00reticollab0708 media-richness <span style="color:#555555;">Tom L. <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Roberts">Roberts</a> and Paul Benjamin <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Lowry">Lowry</a> and Paul H. <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Cheney">Cheney</a> and Ross T. <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Hightower">Hightower</a> </span><em>HICSS, </em><em>IEEE Computer Society, </em>(<em>2006</em>)Wed Oct 03 13:42:30 CEST 2007HICSSconf/hicss/2006Improving Group Communication Outcomes with Collaborative Software: The Impact of Group Size, Media Richness, and Social Presence.2006reticollab0708 media-richness Project groups are becoming a mainstay in today’s work environment. This coupled with globalization has distributed many teams. This makes communication among team members vital to project success. This study evaluates the impact of group size and social presence upon group communication. It compares key communication factors for three different social presence treatments (Face-to-Face without CS support; Face-to- Face with CS support; and distributed with CS support). In addition, it evaluates these impacts with two different group sizes. The results indicate that smaller and higher social presence groups maintain higher levels of communication than larger groups and groups with lower social presence. These results should alert project managers to the difficulty of communication between project team members in distributed global environments