Today, proficiency in collaborative problem solving and global competency is requisite for success in college and workplace. Collaborative problem solving and global competency are the two major areas that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nominated in 2015 and 2018 for major development in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), in addition to...

This paper argues that one reason for the success of collaborative problem solving where individual attempts failed is the polyphonic character of work in small groups. Polyphony, a concept taken from music, may occur in chats for problem solving, transforming dialog into a “thinking device”: Different voices jointly construct a melody (story, or solution) and other voices adopt differential po...

In problem-solving courts judges are no longer neutral arbitrators in adversarial justice processes. Instead, judges directly engage with court participants. The movement towards problem-solving court models emerges from a collaborative therapeutic jurisprudence framework. While most scholars argue judges are the central courtroom actors within problem-solving courts, we find judges are the sta...

Social collaboration has been shown to facilitate problemsolving activity in diverse sets of environments. Nevertheless, if not well designed, social and human computation systems may achieve results only similar to those of a single human subject performing a task. This scenario reflects a need for better understanding of the performance issues of human problem-solving social networks. Firstly...

Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) skills are receiving increased attention in the current workforce and lifelong learning. In learning labor contexts, successful teamwork is however not always guaranteed, due to several reasons, such as an unequal level of individual participation. Training CPS for all groups therefore needed. However, resources competence development scarce. As part our proj...

Problem solving has received broad public interest as an important competency in modern societies. In educational large-scale assessments paper-pencil based analytical problem solving was included first (e.g., Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003). With growing interest in more complex situations, the focus has shifted to interactive problem solving (e.g., PISA 2012) requir...