"'In Creating High-Tech Teams: Practical Guidance on Work Performance and Technology,' leaders in science and industry explore the state-of-the-art in technology and teamwork and translate this information into the best possible guidance for industrial-organizational practitioners. Contributors who work with specific types of technology, such as groupware and data visualization, describe their understanding of how that technology affects teamwork and provide guidance on how to use it. They also review the most prevalent tools used today and explain how they are applied in a number of industries. The final section of the volume provides a glimpse into the future by discussing various applications of 'virtual' teammates, in which part of the team is the technology." -- Publisher's review

Introduction: creating high-tech teams / Clint Bowers, Eduardo Salas, and Florian Jentsch -- PART I. HIGH TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT TEAMWORK: Groupware, group dynamics, and team performance / James E. Driskell, Eduardo Salas -- Enabling team decision making / Rick van der Kleij, Jan Maarten Schraagen -- Effects of data visualizations on group decision making / Sae Lynne Schatz, Janis Cannon-Bowers, Clint Bowers -- PART II. HIGH-TECH TEAMS IN ACTION: Cognition, teams, and team cognition: memory actions and memory failures in distributed team environments / Stephen M. Fiore ... [et al.] -- Exploration and context in communication analysis / Magnus Morin, Pear-Anders Albinsson -- Enhancing command and control teamwork in operation enduring freedom / Janel H. Schermerhorn, Ronald A. Moore -- Operational concepts, teamwork, and technology in commercial nuclear power stations / John M. O'Hara, Emilie M. Roth -- Group performance and space flight teams / Barrett S. Caldwell -- PART III. THE FUTURE OF TEAMWORK: TECHNOLOGY AS A TEAM MEMBER: Virtual teams: creating context for distributed teamwork / Heather A. Priest ... [et al.] -- Understanding and developing virtual computer-supported cooperative work teams / Lori Foster Thompson, Michael D. Coovert -- Automated systems in the cockpit? is the autopilot, "George," a team member? / Raegan M. Hoeft, Janeen A. Kochan, Florian Jentsch -- Training teamwork with synthetic teams / Jared Freeman ... [et al.] -- Creating high-tech teams: a conclusion / Raegan M. Hoeft, Florian Jentsch, Clint Bowers