Print Email Facebook Twitter Auto-Erecting Virtual Office Walls: Constructing a Virtual Office for Global Software Engineers Title Auto-Erecting Virtual Office Walls: Constructing a Virtual Office for Global Software Engineers Author Van Gameren, B.J.A. Contributor Van Solingen, D.M. (promotor) Van Deursen, A. (promotor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technolgy Date 2014-06-17 Abstract Due to the globalization of business and the rising popularity of working from home, global software engineering is becoming increasingly common. In such a distributed environment, team members no longer share a physical work environment and should be provided with information they need to collaborate remotely. The goal of this dissertation is to support global software engineers with technological support for aiding them to relatively passively and unobtrusively acquire a sufficient level of awareness for their work activities. To reach this goal three important aspects of the design, implementation and evaluation of such technological support are studied, namely: constructing a virtual office, communicating in a virtual office, and information needs in a virtual office. The results of these empirical studies, conducted in close collaboration with industry, provide valuable insights on how best to design and implement a virtual office, empirical evidence that overhearing conversations of colleagues is valuable, empirical evidence that a mood-based microblogging solution increases team-connectedness, and empirical evidence that virtual office walls increase the speed of coordination and the perception on overall performance. Finally, based on these studies, a set of requirements a virtual office should fulfill is derived. This set of requirements provides important guidelines on how best to provide global software engineers with the information they need. Subject AwarenessVirtual OfficeVirtual Office WallsOpen Conversation SpaceCommunicationInformation Needs To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:566a8fce-900a-425e-b18a-fd38af01ba3b Embargo date 2014-06-11 ISBN 9789461863171 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2014 Van Gameren, B.J.A. Files PDF Proefschrift_BenVanGameren.pdf 8.69 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:566a8fce-900a-425e-b18a-fd38af01ba3b/datastream/OBJ/view