The Effects of Physical Distribution of Team Members on Team Cohesiveness and Performance

Inzana, Carolyn M.; Willis, Ruth P.; Kass, Steven J.

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“…Face-to-face teams have been found to be more cohesive and had higher levels of performance than distributed teams (Inzana, Willis, & Kass, 1994). Nonexplicit information, such as body posture, hand gestures, facial expressions, or voice inflection and intonation, is often lost in distributed systems.…”

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Information Flow and Development of Coordination in Distributed Supervisory Control Teams

Caldwell¹,

Everhart²

1998

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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This article presents results of a study to examine the flow of information between members of a new task team conducting a distributed supervisory control task. The emphasis of this project was on the effects of information presentation and message transmission delays on the development of effective information flow among human operators. The project focused on the earliest stages of team performance to explore how teams begin to refine distributed task coordination. The task simulation used in this project was a distributed navigation task based on a commercially available computer game (Spectre VRTM). Teams of three ("out the window" [OTW] observer, "long-range radar" observer, and a driver without direct visual information) were required to navigate a vehicle in a dynamic and potentially hostile environment containing obstacles and moving hazards. The goal of the task was to accumulate points through capturing flags. Information presentation was manipulated through standard game selections of wireframe versus filled polygon graphics rendering and the optional presentation of hints about visible objects to the OTW observer. Message transmission between the observers and the driver was also manipulated through changing communication baud rates between computers. A total of 51 undergraduate student teams participated in the study. Results indicated that the number of words exchanged between observers and the driver was a significant covariate affecting team performance (measured by number of flags captured and total score). Presentation of hints negatively affected team total score and flags captured. The interaction of graphics shapes and hints combined to have a significant effect on total score. These results are discussed in terms of shared mental models and information exchange needs to support coordinated task performance implications for future team-based human-system interface designs.

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Section: Shared Mental Models and Common Groundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Flow and Development of Coordination in Distributed Supervisory Control Teams

Caldwell¹,

Everhart²

1998

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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Distributed coordination space: Toward a theory of distributed team process and performance

Fiore

Salas

Cuevas

et al. 2003

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

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The Effects of Team Member Distribution and Accountability on a Brainstorming Task

Kass

Inzana

Willis

1995

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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The current study investigates the effects of physical distribution of team members and accountability of individual outputs on brainstorming performance. Teams were asked to generate as many uses for a knife as they could in a 12 min period. Participants included 103 undergraduate students enrolled in psychology courses. A 2 (distributed vs. face-to-face) x 2 (accountable vs. non-accountable) analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect of accountability and a significant interaction. Individuals in face-to-face accountable teams generated the fewest ideas. These results are interpreted in terms of “evaluation apprehension” and “social loafing.”

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The Effects of Physical Distribution of Team Members on Team Cohesiveness and Performance

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Information Flow and Development of Coordination in Distributed Supervisory Control Teams

Information Flow and Development of Coordination in Distributed Supervisory Control Teams

Distributed coordination space: Toward a theory of distributed team process and performance

The Effects of Team Member Distribution and Accountability on a Brainstorming Task

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