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Most interdisciplinary research projects involve geographically distributed participants. It is well known that such dispersion presents many challenges. The good news is that there are a wide variety of excellent technologies that can help bridge the distance among participants. However, there continue to be many challenges in how to make such projects successful. Fortunately, there is now a large body of research that suggests ways in which the challenges can be overcome. This chapter reviews the challenges and the interventions that can ameliorate the problems.

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Acknowledgments

This work was made possible by financial support from Google, the Donald Bren Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (grant ACI-1322304). Judith Olson also provided helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, Irvine, CA, 92697-3440, USA

    Gary M. Olson

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  1. Cybr-HumnSysPrg,DivofInfrmtn&Intlgntsyst, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    William Sims Bainbridge

  2. NatlSciFondtn&NatlNanotechnlgyInitiative, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    Mihail C. Roco

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Olson, G.M. (2016). Collaboratories. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_34

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