Advances in measuring team cognition.

Cooke, Nancy J.; Salas, Eduardo; Kiekel, Preston A.; Bell, Brian

doi:10.1037/10690-005

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“…In line with the plea of Cooke, Salas, Kiekel, and Bell (2004), these measurement possibilities are both automated and embedded. Automated behavioral measurement takes place as a result of logging by the scenario player, and online embedded questionnaires can be integrated in the scenario, enabling the measurement of team cognition.…”

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PLATT: A flexible platform for experimental research on team performance in complex environments

Kamphuis

Essens

Houttuin

et al. 2010

Behavior Research Methods

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Teams are everywhere. They can accomplish tasks that exceed the capabilities of single individuals. In our age of information, teams have to be able to cope with an increasingly complex world. Large amounts of information, with an often ambiguous and contradictory nature, tax the abilities of teams. They have to be effective in dynamic and unpredictable environments. To complicate matters even more, team members may be geographically dispersed, necessitating the use of technology to communicate with each other.The complexity that present-day teams have to meet requires scientific understanding (see Salas, Cooke, & Rosen, 2008). Research is needed that aims to gain more insight into the present-day factors affecting team effectiveness, in order to contribute to the development of training methods, interventions, and technology to improve their effectiveness. Studies with existing teams in field settings can provide initial insights in the conditional factors of teamwork. In order to test predictions derived from these field studies systematically and to establish causal relationships, more controlled experimentation is necessary. For these studies, experimental team tasks are necessary. On the one hand, these tasks have to embody the complexity that present-day teams face. Only then can relevant processes emerge and be measured. On the other hand, these tasks have to allow a good degree of control. Only then can processes of interest be measured in a systematic way. Hence, there is a complexity-control tradeoff. The present article describes a recently developed task environment that facilitates controlled experimental research on team performance in complex environments: PLATT (the "planning task for teams" 1 ). PREVIOUS RESEARCHTeam researchers have conducted research on both ends of the simplicity-complexity continuum. They have used either simple tasks in highly controllable laboratory experiments or complex tasks in realistic, high-fidelity simulations. As an example of a simple task that has been used for the study of team performance, consider the "winter survival exercise" (Johnson & Johnson, 1987) The present article introduces PLATT, a recently developed task environment for controlled experimental research on team performance in complex environments. PLATT was developed to meet the research demands posed by the complexity that present-day teams face. It consists of a flexible, modular software architecture and research-specific scenarios. The scenarios can target various types of tasks (e.g., planning, problem solving, and decision making) in different operational contexts. Different software configurations can be used to investigate questions pertaining to team structure, team virtuality, and multiteam systems. We describe the software architecture, one of the scenarios, and the broad range of automated and embedded measurement possibilities that PLATT offers. To illustrate PLATT's possibilities, in the present article, we describe a number of experiments that have used PLATT for a variety of research...

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PLATT: A flexible platform for experimental research on team performance in complex environments

Kamphuis

Essens

Houttuin

et al. 2010

Behavior Research Methods

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“…Cooke et al (2004) emphasize that team cognition emerges from the interplay of the individual cognition of each team member and team process behaviour, thus team cognition is more than the sum of the individual team members' cognition. According to theoretical approaches of team cognition each individual has two different models: an individual mental model, which is long term knowledge (professional knowledge related to task, and team members) and an individual situation model describing a momentary, transient understanding of the current situation.…”

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Human Aspects of NPP Operator Teamwork

Juhász¹,

Soós²

2011

Nuclear Power - Control, Reliability and Human Factors

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“…However, team skills are more difficult to develop as they must be practiced as a team [13]. Team thinking emerges from the intersection of individual team members' thinking, their behaviors and team processes, enabling a team to deliver more value than a group of individuals [27]. Throughout the process of problem solving, teams use communication to stimulate their thinking and handle uncertainty inherent in design [13].…”

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Systems Thinking as an Emergent Team Property: Ongoing research into the enablers and barriers to team-level systems thinking

Lamb

Rhodes

2008

2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference

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-This paper describes ongoing research exploring systems thinking at the team level. Termed collaborative systems thinking by the authors, the concept of higher level systems thinking is envisioned as a means both to build workforce competency and to explicitly deal with system complexity at a higher level within an organization. This paper introduces the key research questions, an initial definition of collaborative systems thinking, demographic and technical motivators, and summarizes the research progress to date and plan for completion. The results of this research will inform the design of technical processes and provide empirical knowledge to support workforce development interventions aimed at developing systems thinking within engineering teams.The role of organizational culture is also considered as a factor in enabling collaborative systems thinking.

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Advances in measuring team cognition.

Cited by 182 publications

References 42 publications

PLATT: A flexible platform for experimental research on team performance in complex environments

PLATT: A flexible platform for experimental research on team performance in complex environments

Human Aspects of NPP Operator Teamwork

Systems Thinking as an Emergent Team Property: Ongoing research into the enablers and barriers to team-level systems thinking

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