Emerging E-Collaboration

摘要

Electronic collaboration (e-col-laboration) is operationally defined here as collaboration using electronic technologies among different individuals to accomplish a common task. This is a broad definition that encompasses not only computer-mediated collaborative work, but also collaborative work that is supported by other types of technologies that do not fit most people's definition of a "computer". One example of such technologies is the telephone, which is not, strictly speaking, a computer- even though some of today's telephone devices probably have more processing power than some of the first computers back in the 1940s. Another example of technology that may enable e-collaboration is the teleconferencing suite, whose main components are cameras, televisions, and telecommunications devices.