Role of Metaphors in Fostering Macrocognitive Processes in Distributed Teams.

摘要

This grant project integrated research on team cognition, temporal dynamics, and storytelling towards the goal of improving team coordination and performance in distributed decision making teams. Specifically, the three overall research objectives were: 1) To integrate and empirically investigate information sharing, team mental models, and situational awareness to understand their differential effects on team outcomes 2) to infuse a temporal focus into the study of team cognition and team outcomes to better reflect the context of organizational and military teams and 3) to investigate how storytelling (complex form of metaphor) can be used as a team training intervention to improve team cognition and collaboration.