Building a robust and effective human-agent team is difficult, as teams can fail for many reasons. In this study, we investigated the performance of human-agent teams with divisional and functional team structure under different level of task load uncertainty. Divisional teams show robustness against uncertainly but can lead to poorer performance. Three reasons related to team coordination were...

one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...

The goal of our research is to understand and model the effects of inter-agent variation in adaptively building and maintaining a back up pool of agents in multiagent systems (MAS). Redundancy is important in maintaining system stability during pertubations. We consider a decentralized MAS to which tasks are assigned. Specifically, we consider tasks in which agents gain experience by performing...

The study of negative relationships in teams has primarily focused on the impact of negative relationships on individual team member attitudes and performance in teams. The mechanisms and contingencies that can buffer against the damaging effects of negative relationships on team performance have received limited attention. Building on social interdependence theory and the multilevel model of t...

This study proposes and tests a model that explains the mediating mechanism through which the transactive memory system (TMS) of a team impacts on team performance under varying levels of team geographic dispersion. The model proposes that the relationship between TMS and team performance is mediated by the extent of knowledge integration among team members. The model further proposes that the ...

BACKGROUND This mixed methods study was designed to explore the acceptability and impact of feedback of team performance data to primary care interdisciplinary teams. METHODS Seven interdisciplinary teams were offered a one-hour, facilitated performance feedback session presenting data from a comprehensive, previously-conducted evaluation, selecting highlights such as performance on chronic d...

Effective team process is critical for the performance of cyber security teams. To examine this, we observed two comparably skilled cyber security teams participating in the International Capture the Flag (iCTF) competition held in December 2011. At the conclusion of the competition, we followed up with a focus group discussion with six members from the two teams. In this paper, we present our ...

Accurately assessing team performance is required by team directors in order to improve the likelihood of achieving team goals. Unfortunately, there are no generally accepted and broadly useful methods for assessing team performance. This paper takes preliminary steps towards developing general criteria for such an assessment by suggesting how team performance of agents can be measured. These m...

Traditionally, software quality is thought to depend on sound software engineering and development methodologies such as structured programming and agile development. However, high quality software depends just as much on high quality collaboration within the team. Since the success rate of software development projects is low (Wateridge, 1995; The Standish Group, 2009), it is important to unde...