A Dynamic Social Network Experiment with Multi-team Systems

Author

Pilny, Andrew ; Yahja, Alex ; Poole, Marshall Scott ; Dobosh, Melissa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

587

Lastpage

593

Abstract

This paper describes the use of VBS High-Fidelity 3D Game to perform experiments on multi-team systems. Multi-team systems (MTS) are a natural part of human social phenomena and online social networks as people form groups with shared goals and interests. We gathered data on human players (on communications and interactions) who were engaged in a VBS game scenario. Using Relational Event Modeling (REM), we analyzed the results. The results suggest some synchronization and cross-team communication have both direct effects with team performance and, in some cases, can moderate the effect of false information in environments of uncertainty.

Keywords

computer games; social networking (online); team working; REM; VBS high-fidelity 3D game; cross-team communication; human social phenomena; multiteam systems; online social networks; relational event modeling; synchronization; team performance; Games; Maximum likelihood estimation; Relays; Roads; Social network services; Synchronization; Vehicles; multi-team system; relational event modeling; sequential structural signatures; social media; social network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud), 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BDCloud.2014.81

Filename

7034846