This paper presents a process model describing how a Kaizen team collectively creates innovation and improvement ideas for a production system and a protocol analysis approach based on the model. The process model captures the team-based creative problem solving practice as a process of updating a shared mental space comprising production system mental models (PSMMs) through exchanging utteranc...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to test the vulnerability model of the relationship between temperament and mental disorders using a large sample of adolescents from the TRacking Adolescents Individual Lives' Survey (TRAILS). The vulnerability model argues that particular temperaments can place individuals at risk for the development of mental health problems. Importantly, the model may imply that ...

Psychology studies have shown that one of the keys to human teamwork is the ability of teammates to anticipate the needs of others and proactively take appropriate action using an overlapping shared mental model (SMM). This paper introduces an implemented multi-agent architecture – CAST, which enables a team of agents to establish a computational shared mental model. Using such a SMM, agents ca...

Shared mental models have been shown to improve human team performance. We thus conjecture that shared mental models (SMMs) integrated into cognitive robotic architectures might also improve the performance of mixed humanrobot teams. To date, very little research has focused on developing appropriate computational constructs that can support domain independence and generalizability, while also ...

Robots are increasingly introduced to work in concert with people in high-intensity domains, such as manufacturing, space exploration and hazardous environments. Tasks in these domains are often well-defined, but involve complex coordination under constraints and are performed under time pressure. Although numerous studies on human teamwork and coordination in these settings, very little prior ...

This paper presents an experiment on the impact of Shared Mental Models (SMM) on creative virtual teamwork. We tested whether the usage of an online whiteboard influences the building of SMM in the initial phase of virtual teamwork. As SMM are the foundation for successful collaboration in teams, we transferred the construct on measuring the team task and team goal in a creative virtual team pr...

Improvisational theatre is a unique art form that requires actors to co-construct stories on stage in realtime without the benefits of any explicit communication. All negotiation about the content of the scene, including characters, setting, plot, and relationships, must be done within the context of the performance. This negotiation process is a special form of constructing shared mental model...

Introduction Grosz and Sidner (1990) have argued that discourses are primarily examples of collaborative activity , and hence that a model of plans for discourse must deal adequately with collaboration. In particular, it must provide a means of representing and distinguishing among agents' beliefs and of stating the ways in which the intentions of diier-ent agents contribute to achieving their ...