Massachusetts Institute of Technology - System Design and Management Can remote collaboration be adapted to the human? by Russell F. Wertenberg Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Notre Dame de Namur University, 1991 Submitted to the System Design and Management Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Engineering and Management BARKER at the MASSACHUSETTS ~INSI 1 OF TECHNOLOGY T Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 2003 AER 7 2003 0 2002 Russell F. Wertenberg All rights reserved LIBRAR IES The author hereby grants to MIT perm ission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. Signature of Author- / \.I r C Russell F. Wertenberg System Design and Management Program February 2003 Certified by Janice Klein Thesis Supervisor Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer Accepted by Steven D. Eppinger Co-Director, LFM/SDM GM LFM Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems Accepted by Paul A. Lagace Co-Director, LFM/SDM Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems I of 130 rfw thesisfinal.pdf Room 14-0551 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Ph: 617.253.2800 MITLibraries Email:
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