Team Communication on Virtual Project Success

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Team Communication on Virtual Project Success

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Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Platform

Maui, Hawaii USA

January 04-January 07

ISBN: 978-0-7695-4525-7

Johann Füller

Julia Müller

Katja Hutter

Kurt Matzler

Julia Hautz

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.636

To keep up the pace of innovation organizations need to open the innovation process to all organizational members. Virtual worlds enable a new way to connect globally dispersed employees to jointly contribute to the company's innovation process. To explore the potential and current usage of virtual worlds as collaborative innovation platforms, we conducted a qualitative study at IBM. We interviewed IBM employees belonging to a special work group called "Web 2.0/virtual worlds" in order to gain experience in generating and exchanging knowledge, ideas and insights by virtually collaborating and interacting in SL. Our results show that SL bears the potential to connect organizational members as it provides media richness and facilitates social interaction. However, current virtual worlds still capture some problems. Improvements including platform stability, user interface, or security issues may be necessary to use virtual worlds more effectively and efficiently to improve the company's innovation process.

Index Terms:

virtual worlds, Second Life, collaborative innovation, knowledge platform

Citation:

Johann Füller, Julia Müller, Katja Hutter, Kurt Matzler, Julia Hautz, "Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Platform," hicss, pp.1003-1012, 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012

Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Platform

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Selling the selling point

How innovation communication creates users of Virtual Worlds Architecture

1. Ursula Plesner⇓
   1. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2. Maja Horst
   1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1. Ursula Plesner, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Email: up.ioa@cbs.dk

Abstract

This article explores how virtual worlds are rhetorically constructed as obvious, innovative spaces for communication about architecture. It is argued that the marketization of an innovative use of new media platforms happens in early phases of the innovation processes, and the success of new media technologies such as virtual worlds hinges on the creation of expectations, which are intertwined with the discursive construction of future users. Drawing on the sociology of expectations and the sociology of technology, the article argues that the configuration of expected users is a central part of the communication about the innovation. It is demonstrated that the creation of markets does not begin when innovations such as Virtual Worlds Architecture are settled, but is intertwined with early expectations about their promises and limitations. Rather than seeing virtual worlds as settled and secluded sites for social and cultural innovation in themselves, we have examined how actors involved with them try to sell them as such. A crucial challenge for these actors turns out to be the interpretative flexibility of the innovation, since arguments designed to attract one kind of expected user might problematize the configuration of other types of users.

Selling the selling point

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Title (English): Heat transfer from humid air to a two-row direct expansion plate finned tube coils (DX) under condensing conditions

Journal: University College of Engineering

Issue: University College of Engineering (Volume: 30, Issue: 1)

Author: نادر آل ابراهيم , حسين شكوهمند

Keywords (English):Air conditioning Condensation Electric coils Finite difference method Heat transfer Mass transfer Mathematical models Reynolds number Temperature distribution Direct expansion plate finned tube coils Heat analysis Fins (heat exchange)

Abstract (English): Direct Expansion plate finned tube coils (DX) are extensively used in air conditioning systems. If the air flowing over the coil is humid and the coil temperature is below the dew point, condensation will occur on the fins. In this paper a two-row unit (DX) in which the tubes are arranged triangular, has been selected for analysis of sene sible and latent heats.By applying a tow-dimensinal analysis on an individual cell of the coil, the governing equations have been derived. These equations have been solved numerically using a finite difference method. The temperature distribution and fin efficiency variation for both wet and dry surface conditions, versus the fin pitch, fin material, temperature and humidity of the inlet air flow and Reynolds number, have been determined.

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