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  • Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Organizational Behavior

Background:

  • Measuring team performance in collaborative tasks, especially in distributed settings, is challenging.
  • Existing metrics may not fully capture the nuances of team dynamics and efficiency.
  • Team multitasking throughput (tMT) is a novel concept for assessing collaborative efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate a novel, unobtrusive estimate of team multitasking throughput (tMT).
  • To investigate the impact of objective performance and perceived reliability of teammates on tMT in distributed dyads.
  • To determine how the congruence between expected and actual teammate performance influences tMT.

Main Methods:

  • A within-subjects experimental design was employed.
  • Participants completed collaborative tasks in distributed dyads.
  • Teammates' objective performance and purported reliability were systematically manipulated.
  • Team multitasking throughput (tMT) was quantitatively assessed.

Main Results:

  • A significant difference in tMT was observed between low and high performing teammates when the teammate was described as reliable, but not when described as unreliable.
  • tMT was partially higher when a teammate's performance matched expectations compared to when it violated expectations.
  • Perceived reliability and objective performance interact to influence team efficiency.

Conclusions:

  • The novel tMT metric effectively captures team performance dynamics.
  • Objective performance and perceived reliability dynamically influence team efficiency in collaborative tasks.
  • The interplay between expected and actual performance is crucial for optimizing team multitasking throughput.