Three Expertises in the Study of Small Unit, Cooperative, Interactions
Abstract
Small unit, cooperative interaction is composed of three expertises: (1) Individual expertise my attaining skilled performance in,a novel task, (2) Partner expertise my understanding the strengths and weaknesses in my teammates task-specific skills as their s,kills change with experiences, and (3) Cooperative expertise coordinating my performance with each of my teammates performances s,o as to best serve our teams task goals. Small cooperative teams of performers are ubiquitous and include teams as diverse as baske,tball teams (5 players), String Quartets (4 performers), Military Police squads (3 persons), or (2-5 person) video-game teams. For o,ur initial studies, verbal exchanges will be prohibited as we run 10 stable, two- (study 1) and three-person (study 2) teams in the,same set of dynamic tasks, twice a week, 1-hr per session, across 5 weeks, for ten hours of cooperative action per team. All eye- an,d movement-data will be collected at the millisecond level of performance as each team member acquires; (a) expertise in their task,, (b) knowledge of their partners current capabilities, as well as (c) expertise in interacting with each other during task performa,nce. For our initial studies, each team member will be located in a separate acoustic pod, so that verbal communication between play,ers will be impossible. The vehicle for this study is the Cooperative-Action Project #1 (CAP1) which has been built to timestamp eac,h event, across up to four different computers (one monitor, computer, and eye-tracker per person), with millisecond accuracy. To ou,r knowledge, ours will be the most detailed collection of 2-, 3-, and 4-person cooperative interaction data ever attempted.APPROVED,FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212109
Entities
People
- Wayne D. Gray
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- United States Navy