Interpersonal coordination in joint multiple object tracking

verfasst von: Basil Wahn, Peter König, Alan Kingstone
Abstract: People often perform visual tasks together, for example, when looking for a misplaced key. When per-forming such tasks jointly, people coordinate their actions to divide the labor, for example, by looking for the misplaced key in different rooms. This way, they tend to perform better together than individu-ally—they attain a group beneﬁt. A crucial factor determining whether (and to what extent) individuals attain a group beneﬁt is the amount of information they receive about each other’s actions and perform-ance. We systematically varied, across 8 conditions, the information participant pairs received while jointly performing a visual task. We ﬁnd that participants can attain a group beneﬁt without receiving any information (and thus cannot coordinate their actions). However, actions are coordinated and the group beneﬁt is enhanced if participants receive information about each other’s actions or performance. If both types of information are received, participants are faster in creating efﬁcient labor divisions. To create divisions, participants used the screen center as a reference to divide the labor into a left and right side. When participants cannot coordinate actions, they exhibit a bias toward choosing the same side, but they forgo this bias once action coordination is possible, thereby boosting group performance.
Organisationseinheit(en): Institut für Psychologie
Externe Organisation(en): Universität Osnabrück
University of British Columbia
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Band: 47
Seiten: 1166-1181
Anzahl der Seiten: 16
ISSN: 0096-1523
Publikationsdatum: 2021
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Experimentelle und kognitive Psychologie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (sonstige), Behaviorale Neurowissenschaften
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000935 (Zugang: Geschlossen)

BibTeX

@article{e26b3b8d0b904917a64a89dfded3e493,
title = "Interpersonal coordination in joint multiple object tracking",
abstract = "People often perform visual tasks together, for example, when looking for a misplaced key. When per-forming such tasks jointly, people coordinate their actions to divide the labor, for example, by looking for the misplaced key in different rooms. This way, they tend to perform better together than individu-ally—they attain a group beneﬁt. A crucial factor determining whether (and to what extent) individuals attain a group beneﬁt is the amount of information they receive about each other{\textquoteright}s actions and perform-ance. We systematically varied, across 8 conditions, the information participant pairs received while jointly performing a visual task. We ﬁnd that participants can attain a group beneﬁt without receiving any information (and thus cannot coordinate their actions). However, actions are coordinated and the group beneﬁt is enhanced if participants receive information about each other{\textquoteright}s actions or performance. If both types of information are received, participants are faster in creating efﬁcient labor divisions. To create divisions, participants used the screen center as a reference to divide the labor into a left and right side. When participants cannot coordinate actions, they exhibit a bias toward choosing the same side, but they forgo this bias once action coordination is possible, thereby boosting group performance.",
keywords = "collaboration, joint action, multiple object tracking, social cognition",
author = "Basil Wahn and Peter K{\"o}nig and Alan Kingstone",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the support of a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft research fellowship (WA 4153/2-1) awarded to Basil Wahn, and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant awarded to Alan Kingstone.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1037/xhp0000935",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "1166--1181",
journal = "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance",
issn = "0096-1523",
publisher = "American Psychological Association Inc.",
number = "9",
}