Causal evidence for the effect of team size on performance is lacking despite high relevance this question. From an economic perspective, one would expect incentives to decrease with increasing size, but psychological phenomenon peer effects could mitigate free-rider problem. To analyze behavioral implications due changes in we exploit a rich dataset from controlled experiment teams either two ...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine nursing team structure and its relationship with family satisfaction. METHODS We used electronic health records to create patient-based, 1-mode networks of nursing handoffs. In these networks, nurses were represented as nodes and handoffs as edges. For each patient, we calculated network statistics including team size and diameter, network centrality index, p...

Although trust is widely acknowledged as critical to virtual teams, little is known regarding the causes and consequences of trust in leaders of virtual teams. This paper examines the antecedents and consequences of trust in virtual team leaders. Using survey and archival data from a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), this study’s findings show that trust in the leader is affected by tea...

Autonomous Mobile Robotics is a very active research field. The RoboCup challenge provides a standard benchmark environment and the design of a small size RoboCup team is an excellent way to innovate in this field. The evolving design of the team is presented as well as some of the experience accumulated from two participations in this competition. Some key issues are discussed and the adopted ...

Many of the activities performed in rms are done by teams, where a common output is observed but outsiders cannot observe the individual contributions of each team member. This leads to the possibility of some of the members of the team free-riding on the contributions of others. Repeated interactions of a team can then potentially lead to cooperation among the members of the team under the cre...

The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is a challenging environment for computer vision applications. Ball and robots move at speeds up to 2 m/s and the need of tracking them precisely requires the implementation of a high performance vision system. We will present the vision system developed in the ITAM Small Size Team (Eagle Knights) explaining the main algorithms and technical decisions made in...