ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some temporal features of group work, and with how those temporal matters are affected when technological tools are added. The first section deals with matters of temporal structure, such as stages of group development and phases of group task performance, treating those issues in terms of a new time-based theory of functional groups. The second section deals with matters of temporal patterning, giving special emphasis to entrainment processes. The third section considers an array of potential technological tools that can mediate and modify cooperative work in groups. Those tools are discussed in terms of how they might aid or hinder the temporal flow of communication and work in groups. That last section also poses some key questions for research.
