Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination

Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination

Networks can affect a group’s ability to solve a coordination problem. We utilize laboratory experiments to study the conditions under which groups of subjects can solve coordination games. We investigate a variety of different network structures, and we also investigate coordination games with symmetric and asymmetric payoffs. Our results show that network connections facilitate coordination i...

Network Structure and Group Coordination

Network Support for Group Coordination

Recent advances in computer hardware and networking technology have incited the deployment of wide-area streaming media services in the Internet. While such efforts as video-on-demand are largely limited to unidirectional delivery of content to the desktop, synchronously interactive group-oriented application services are foreseeable. In such applications, users collaborate on a shared workspac...

Effects of Network Structure on Cooperative Coordination

Coordination and cooperation are often required for satisfactory solutions to social problems. Two factors that affect the ability of groups to solve such problems are the information actors have about other’s actions and the costs of taking an action. We utilize a network approach to model the structure of communication between actors and test experimentally how the communication structure aff...

Dynamic network structure of interhemispheric coordination.

Fifty years ago Gazzaniga and coworkers published a seminal article that discussed the separate roles of the cerebral hemispheres in humans. Today, the study of interhemispheric communication is facilitated by a battery of novel data analysis techniques drawn from across disciplinary boundaries, including dynamic systems theory and network theory. These techniques enable the characterization of...