Journal article
Computational studies to understand the role of social learning in team familiarity and its effects on team performance
CoDesign, v 8(1), pp 25-41
Mar 2012
Abstract
This paper concerns social learning modes and their effects on team performance. Social learning, such as by observing others' actions and their outcomes, allows members of a team to learn what other members know. Knowing what other members know can reduce task communication and co-ordination overhead, which helps the team to perform faster since members can devote their attention to their tasks. This paper describes agent-based simulation studies using a computational model that implements different social learning modes as parameters that can be controlled in the simulations. The results show that social learning from both direct and indirect observations positively contributes to learning about what others know, but the value of social learning is sensitive to prior familiarity such that minimum thresholds of team familiarity are needed to realise the benefits of social learning. This threshold increases with task complexity. These findings clarify the level of influence that sociality has on social learning and sets up a formal framework by which to conduct studies on how social context influences learning and group performance.
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- Title
- Computational studies to understand the role of social learning in team familiarity and its effects on team performance
- Creators
- Vishal Singh - Deakin UniversityAndy Dong - The University of SydneyJohn S. Gero - Institute for Advanced Study
- Publication Details
- CoDesign, v 8(1), pp 25-41
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000301647500002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84857242984
- Other Identifier
- 991022156310204721