Bill Parcells, one of the NFL's winningest coaches, offers business leaders three rules for reversing the fortunes of a losing team. He contends that the keys to motivating people are much the same whether they're playing on a football field or working in an office. The first rule is to make it clear from day one that you're in charge. Parcells has found that holding frank one-on-one conversati...

In this paper we consider a model where agents interact participating to projects in order to maximize their profit. We integrate the results of two human subjects experiments with the results of artificial agent simulations. A relevant feature emerging from the social dynamics of the human societies we analyzed is the aggregation in a single connected network of interacting individuals where s...

We have created a set of novel visualisations of group activity: they mirror activity of individuals and their interactions, based upon readily available authentic data. We evaluated these visualisations in the context of a semester long software development project course. We give a theoretical analysis our visualisations’ design using the framework from the “Big 5” theory of team work as well...

This study intends to investigate the effect of incredulity on yes-no question intonation in Taiwan Mandarin. Mandarin yes-no question is formed by adding the sentence-final particle -ma, and it usually sounds incredulous when -ma is absent. To examine how incredulity interacts with -ma, three question conditions were designed, including neutral question with -ma, incredulous question with -ma,...

Among a representative sample of the Dutch population (Study 1: N = 690), careeroriented and team-oriented commitment were assessed, in addition to affective organizational commitment (Meyer & Allen, 1991). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the proposed distinction between the 2 specific forms of commitment at the measurement level. Furthermore, the construct validity of team-oriented and ...

We have surveyed ten collaborators’ perceptions on the value of nine communication modes: email, telephone, pen-and-paper, computer conferencing, telephone conferencing, face-to-face, fax, post, and whiteboard. Eight roles were considered: innovator, resource investigator, chair, shaper, evaluator, team worker, organizer, and finisher. Through a repeated measures design, a mapping between these...

This paper presents a Team-Work based architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search. We consider that a good global solution for a scheduling problem may emerge from a community of machine agents solving locally their schedules and cooperating with other machine agents. Social aspects are considered when a community of autonomous agents cooperate ...

We present TeamSpace, a collaborative workspace system to support the articulation work of high performance development teams. TeamSpace distinguishes between individual, social, and meeting work modes, and facilitates transitions between modes. The system provides a shared workspace that supports understanding and reporting the team’s past progress and activities. Awareness of current team act...