Purpose – This study proposes a nuanced perspective for conceptualizing interpersonal counterproductive work behaviors (ICWBs) by distinguishing them into behaviors that hinder other workers’ task performance (task-focused ICWBs), and those that are personal in nature (person-focused ICWBs). A relational stress perspective is adopted to examine work-based dependence relational stressor and nega...

This paper reports our investigation of differences in users’ behavior between difficult and easy search tasks, as well as how these differences vary with different types of tasks. We also report how behavioral predictors of task difficulty vary across task types. In addition, we explored how whole-tasksession level user behaviors and within-task-session level behaviors differ in task difficult...

A key objective of transfer learning is to improve and speedup learning on a target task after training on a different, but related, source task. This study presents a neuro-evolution method that transfers evolved policies within multi-agent tasks of varying degrees of complexity. The method incorporates behavioral diversity (novelty) search as a means to boost the task performance of transferr...

We conducted an in-depth, micro-level process analysis of 36 experimental groups working on a decision-making task in either desktop videoconferencing, audio conferencing or face-to-face environments. Using the framework of Giddens’ structuration theory, we observed social structures producing behaviors and social structures reproducing behaviors that participants exhibited during the experimen...

We investigated what influence task type and user experience had on information-seeking behaviors on the Web by using screen-capture logs and eye-movement data. Five graduate students in library and information science and eleven undergraduate students with other majors performed two different Web searches, a report-writing and a tripplanning task, and their think-aloud protocols, behaviors, an...