A Social Network to Increase Collaboration and Coordination in Distributed Teams

Authors

  • Aurora Vizcaíno
  • Ramón René Palacio Cinco Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora
  • Alberto L. Morán
  • Mario Piattini

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-2-2491

Keywords:

Global Software Development, Trustworthiness, Virtual Teams

Abstract

Trust is one of the key factors involved in determining the success or failure of any project. However, achieving and maintaining trust in distributed projects when team members are geographically, temporally and culturally distant from each other is a considerable challenge. In this paper, we present Trusty, a tool designed to help develop trust in Virtual Teams. The tool is explained by using a schema of trustworthiness, and an indication of how the tool supports some features of these schema in order to foster the development of trust is therefore provided. The tool has also been evaluated by users, and the results of this evaluation are included in this paper.

Author Biography

Ramón René Palacio Cinco, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora

Ramón R. Palacio is a professor of software engineering at the Unidad Navojoa, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON) in Navojoa, Son., Mexico, where he is member of the Networks and Collaborative Systems research group. He is affiliated to the MCI Computer Sciences graduate program (MSc) and to the Software Engineering undergraduate program (BSc).  His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Software Engineering. His research focuses on the design and evaluation of technologies for healthcare and software engineering. He holds a BSc from Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora (CESUES), a MSc from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), and a PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC).

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Published

2018-06-30

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2018): Thematic Issue on Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization (Guest editors: L. Trujillo, Y. Maldonado, O. Schuetze)

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