Articulating and Understanding the Development of a Team Mental Model in a Distributed Medium

摘要

Because teams are constantly evolving, we must continue to work towards understanding team cognitiondevelopment. One particular example of this is the continued efforts towards understanding developmentaldifferences in co-located and distributed mediums. Both of these settings are imperative and critical toteamwork. As individuals become more mobile and less physically connected, supporting teamwork indistributed settings is becoming more and more important. In this paper, we present a study focused on thedevelopment of a team mental model (TMM) of collaborative information seeking (CIS) in a distributedsetting. The study’s findings provide insights into how a TMM specific to CIS develops within a distributedmedium, highlighting specific aspects that help and hurt development. Concluding thoughts are presentedwith the aim to further understand how TMMs develop differently within the contexts of co-located anddistributed mediums.