ABSTRACT
Nowadays the growth of technology influences the changes in group collaboration's process either for the
professional or for the students. The requirement of interaction in group collaboration while doing task forces the
students to schedule their meeting in order to finish the task given. So the technology starts to influence the
process of group collaboration as a communication and interaction media between students in doing their tasks.
The purpose of this research is to analyze factors from technology characteristics that drive the students to use
collaborative tools, and the implication of using collaborative tools in group collaboration to the group
performance. Our research model was validated using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique with
LISREL 8.8 tool on 196 respondents from undergraduate and postgraduate students of Faculty of Computer
Science, Universitas Indonesia. Our findings showed that the ease of use and perceived usefulness of the
collaborative tools drive the students to use collaborative tools when doing their tasks. The existence of
collaborative learning is also a driving factor for the students to use collaborat