Social impact theory and group action theory are integrated to provide a framework for explaining how technology-mediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development. Social impact theory and group action theory are then used to explain the role of shared mental models in shaping team work quality that ultimately affects both task productivity and team process sati...

Teams are important for organizational work but coordinating teamwork is not always easy. Oftentimes members are separated by time or geographic distance, thus making coordination even more difficult. Recent research suggests that teams develop shared mental models about the task and each other, which helps them develop mutual explanations and expectations about the task environment, thus helpi...

Recent studies in multi-agent systems are paying increasingly more attention to the paradigm of designing intelligent agents with human inspired concepts. One of the main cognitive concepts driving the core of many recent approaches in multi agent systems is shared mental models. In this paper, we propose an architecture for sharing mental models based on a new concept called semantic movement....

Shared mental models theory normally takes the individual as its unit of analysis. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for studying shared mental models in which the model is considered to be distributed amongst the team. From this framework a cognitive process is predicted which describes how shared mental models are run. A team reasoning task requiring planning was used to illustrate ...

Here we adopt a cognitive science orientation to inquire into web interface design using the lens of mental models. A mental model is an internal cognitive representation of some aspect of the real world. The human mind automatically constructs and refines these models to provide a basis from which we can reason, make decisions, and form expectations. Even without conscious awareness, cognitive...

The notion of a shared mental model is well known in the literature regarding team work among humans. It has been used to explain team functioning. The idea is that team performance improves if team members have a shared understanding of the task that is to be performed and of the involved team work. We maintain that the notion of shared mental model is not only highly relevant in the context o...

This study examines how collaboration mode – face-to-face and videoconferencing technology-mediated virtual teams shapes negotiated shared interpretation of ideas needed for shared mental model construction. Social impact theory and group action theory provide a framework for explaining how technologymediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development. Social impa...