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Visualised co-ordination support in distributed decision making

Peter Svenmarck
Division of Industrial Ergonomics
Linköping Institute of Technology

Summary and presentation

Peter reported on a study performed in a "microworld" made for studying how people manage their coordination problem in a dynamic environment. Four people with limited views of the world try to coordinated their actions to fight a simulated forest fire. In previous studies it had been found that local coordination was effected to a great extent by communicating intentions, since prediction of the others activity is the best way to handle the delays associated with effort. This particular study was designed to investigate the effect of communicating intentions by visual means rather than by explicit communication. In social perception results indicate that we perceive intentions directly from body movement. A similar perception of intentions was attempted in the context of fire fighting by visualising information about movement of the fire fighting units on a blackboard shown to all subjects in the group. It was found that the efficiency of fire fighting was not increased in the experimental group getting visualized information about intentions. However, the explicit communication of intentions decreased.


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