@inproceedings{04e85f8f188141cea12ba6e0f6046a63,
title = "Building socioemotional environments in metaverses for virtual teams in healthcare: A conceptual exploration",
abstract = "Metaverses are 3-dimentional (3D) virtual environments that allow people to interact with each other through software agents without physical limitations. There is great interest in the use of Metaverses for health and medical education. This paper examines the application of metaverses for supporting effective collaboration and knowledge sharing in virtual teams. Virtual teams have been used in health/medical area, such as home healthcare. However, the management of virtual teams is challenging. This study proposes that metaverses have the potential to provide socioemotional environments where individuals socially interact with others. Such socioemotional environments have the potential to facilitate effective collaboration and knowledge sharing in virtual teams. Building on previous research, we developed a conceptual model for understanding how metaverses enable the development of social-emotional environments in virtual teams.",
keywords = "Collaboration, Metaverse, Socioemotional environment, Virtual teams",
author = "Xiaodan Yu and Dawn Owens and Deepak Khazanchi",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-29361-0_3",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783642293603",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "4--12",
booktitle = "Health Information Science - First International Conference, HIS 2012, Proceedings",
note = "1st International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2012 ; Conference date: 08-04-2012 Through 10-04-2012",
}