Adaptation of technology into an informal collaborative environment

The adaptation process for new technology into small teams is not yet well understood. New technologies to be introduced to an inter-organisational collaborative design team, presents an opportunity to study adaptive structuration theory in the field. This paper focuses on a future research opportunity, using the implementation of new groupware technology as a framework to investigate the adaptive structuration model. The study of the design team is useful for extending our understanding of the adaptation process in a collaborative environment.