Coordinating Expert Flash Teams on the Biological Internet of Things
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could enable remote team workers to leverage the Internet of Things for collaboration? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO This project set out to improve our understanding of coordination and collaboration in geographically distributed project teams with a specific focus on the requirements […]
Vitae: Digital Hiring Halls for On Demand Workers
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could improve the hiring experience for on demand workers and employers? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop and test an online tool (Vitae) designed to improve the presentation and evaluation of worker qualifications. Researchers hypothesized that aggregating work […]
Recasting the Textbook
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if active engagement in building stories of history helped students evaluate the sources of information and better understand the perspectives from which history is written? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We recast the history textbook as an edited on- demand, collaborative collection of historical narratives. […]