To be successful in today’s workplace, engineering and computer science students must possess high levels of teamwork skills. Unfortunately, most engineering programs provide little or no specific instruction in this area. This paper outlines an assessment-driven approach toward teaching teamwork skills. Working with the Industrial Advisory Board for the College, a set of performance criteria f...

This study evaluated the utility of generic teamwork skills training for enhancing the effectiveness of action teams. Results from 65 four-person action teams working on an interdependent command and control simulator revealed that generic teamwork skills training had a significant and positive impact on both cognitive and skill-based outcomes. Trained team members evidenced higher levels of de...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by agents' conflicting beliefs about different aspects of their environment, about resource availability, and about their own or teammates' capabilities and performance. Team members thus need to communicate and negotiate to restore team coherence. This paper focuses on the problem of negotiations in teamwork...

Teamwork has become increasingly important in many disciplines. However, existing agent teamwork systems are short of expressivity of flexible and efficient mental states underlying teamwork. This paper models and analyzes three foundation concepts towards role-based teamwork modeling: position, role and role variable. An important characteristic of our notion of role is that it includes the sp...

Teamwork has become an important part of the educational process, aiming for preparing students for their future performance, but also for making the learning process easier. Predicting students’ performance in advance is one of the keys to prevent failure, but teamwork results are difficult to estimate and impair the global prediction results [1]. Working in group is an inherent social activit...

Common wisdom says that the greater the level of teamwork, the higher the performance of the team. In teams of cooperative autonomous agents, working together rather than independently can increase the team reward. However, recent results show that in uncertain environments, increasing the level of teamwork can actually decrease overall performance. Coined the team uncertainty penalty, this phe...

The objective of the paper is to project a different and innovative method for pedagogical teamwork practices in undergraduate college classrooms. Though, various methods are employed at present to perform teamwork trainings in certain academic environments in different forms, the one which is presented in this paper assumes a significant role in teamwork building activity as evidenced by the a...

BACKGROUND Long waiting times for emergency care are claimed to be caused by overcrowded emergency departments and non-effective working routines. Teamwork has been suggested as a promising solution to these issues. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of teamwork in a Swedish emergency department on lead times and patient flow. METHODS The study was set in an emergency...

Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training, entertainment, information integration, and collective robotics. Unfortunately, uncertainties in these complex, dynamic domains obstruct coherent teamwork. In particular, team members often encounter di ering, incomplete, and pos...

BACKGROUND Midwives should be skilled team workers in maternity units and in group practices. Poor teamwork skills are a significant cause of adverse maternity care outcomes. Despite Australian and International regulatory requirements that all midwifery graduates are competent in teamwork, the systematic teaching and assessment of teamwork skills is lacking in higher education. QUESTION How ...