NDLI: Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Platform

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Fuller, J. Muller, J. Hutter, K. Matzler, K. Hautz, J.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	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.
Starting Page	1003
Ending Page	1012
File Size	215041
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457719257
ISSN	15301605
e-ISBN	9780769545257
DOI	10.1109/HICSS.2012.636
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-01-04
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Technological innovation Collaboration Interviews Companies Three dimensional displays Avatars Communities knowledge platform virtual worlds Second Life collaborative innovation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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