Effects of Media and Distributed Information on Collaborative Concept-Learning

摘要

The present study explores the effects of media and distributed information on the performance of remotely located pairs of people's completing a concept-learning task. Sixty pairs performed a concept-learning task using either audio-only or audio-plus-video for communication. The distribution of information includes three levels:with totally same information, with partly same information, and with totally different information. The subjects' primary psychological functions were also considered in this study. The results showed a significant main effect of the amount of information shared by the subjects on the number of the negative instances selected by the subjects, and a significant main effect of media on the time taken by the subjects to complete the task.