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Building Socioemotional Environments in Metaverses for Virtual Teams in Healthcare: A Conceptual Exploration

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Health Information Science (HIS 2012)

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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.

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  1. Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, CAS, Beijing, 100190, China

    Xiaodan Yu, Dawn Owens & Deepak Khazanchi

  2. College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, U.S.A.

    Xiaodan Yu

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  1. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Jing He

  2. School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis, Brunel University, St. John’s 103, UB8 3PH, London, UK

    Xiaohui Liu

  3. Departments of Radiology and Psychology, The University of Arizona, 1609 N. Campbell Avenue, 85724, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Elizabeth A. Krupinski

  4. Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science, School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, Ballarat Road, Footscray, 8001, Melbourne City, VIC, Australia

    Guandong Xu

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Yu, X., Owens, D., Khazanchi, D. (2012). Building Socioemotional Environments in Metaverses for Virtual Teams in Healthcare: A Conceptual Exploration. In: He, J., Liu, X., Krupinski, E.A., Xu, G. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29361-0_3

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