The Role of Metaphors in Fostering Macrocognitive Processes in Distributed Teams

Abstract

This grant project integrated research on team cognition, temporal dynamics, and storytelling towards the goal of improving team coordination and performance in distributed decision making teams. Specifically, the three overall research objectives were: 1) To integrate and empirically investigate information sharing, team mental models, and situational awareness to understand their differential effects on team outcomes 2) to infuse a temporal focus into the study of team cognition and team outcomes to better reflect the context of organizational and military teams and 3) to investigate how storytelling (complex form of metaphor) can be used as a team training intervention to improve team cognition and collaboration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563617

Entities

People

  • Katherine Hamilton
  • Michael Mcneese
  • Rachel Tesler
  • Susan Mohammed
  • Vincent Mancuso

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Emergency Response
  • Group Dynamics
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mental Processes
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Psychology
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design