RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Entrainment and Task Success in Team Conversations

RI：小型：协作研究：团队对话中的引导和任务成功

• 批准号: 1420784
• 负责人: Diane Litman
• 金额: $ 36.39万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1420784&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RI; Small; Collaborative; Research; Entrainment

Teams, rather than individuals, are now the usual generators of scientific knowledge. How to optimize team interactions is a passionately pursued topic across several disciplines. This research hypothesizes that linguistic entrainment, or the convergence of linguistic properties of spoken conversation, may serve as a valid and relatively easy-to-collect measure that is predictive of team success. From the perspective of developing interventions for team innovation, organizations could unobtrusively measure team effectiveness using entrainment, and intervene with training to aid teams with low entrainment. Similar interventions would be useful for conversational agents that monitor and facilitate group interactions. The work could also support the development of browsers or data mining applications for corpora such as team meetings or classroom discussions.To date, most studies of entrainment have focused on conversational dyads rather than the multi-party conversations typical of teams. The technical objective of this research is to develop, validate and evaluate new measures of linguistic entrainment tailored to multi-party conversations. In particular, the first research goal is to develop multi-party entrainment measures that are computable using language technologies, and that are both motivated and validated by the literature on teams. The second goal is to demonstrate the utility of these measures in being associated with team processes and predicting team success. The supporting activities include 1) collection of an experimentally-obtained corpus where teams collaborate on a task where they converse, and where a team process intervention manipulates likely entrainment, 2) development of a set of entrainment measures for multi-party dialogue, 3) use of standard psychological teamwork measures for convergent validity and random conversations for divergent validity, 4) exploration of how the team factors of gender composition and participation equality impact group entrainment, and 5) evaluation of the utility of measuring entrainment for predicting team and dialogue success.

团队而不是个人，现在是科学知识的通常发生者。如何优化团队互动是在几个学科中充满激情的话题。 这项研究假设语言夹带或口语对话的语言特性的融合可能是一种有效且相对易于收集的措施，可以预测团队成功。从开发团队创新的干预措施的角度来看，组织可以使用夹带来毫不客气地衡量团队有效性，并干预培训以帮助夹带较低的团队。类似的干预措施对于监视和促进群体相互作用的对话剂将很有用。这项工作还可以支持为语料库（例如团队会议或课堂讨论）开发浏览器或数据挖掘应用程序。到期，大多数夹带研究都集中在对话二元组上，而不是团队典型的多方对话。 这项研究的技术目标是开发，验证和评估针对多方对话量身定制的语言夹带的新措施。 特别是，第一个研究目标是制定可使用语言技术计算的多方夹带措施，并由团队文献进行动机和验证。第二个目标是证明这些措施与团队流程相关联并预测团队成功的实用性。支持活动包括1）收集一个实验性的语料库，在其中团队在他们相反的任务上进行合作，以及团队过程干预操纵可能夹带的过程，2）制定一组夹带措施，以进行多方对话，3）使用标准的心理团队工作集合，以实现对融合有效性和探索的构建的标准性团队的利用，以探索如何影响，以探索构建范围，以探索如何构建范围，以下方面的探索范围，以下方面的探索，4）探索范围的介绍，4）探索了良好的启发性，4）探索了4个）。夹带和5）评估测量夹带的效用，以预测团队和对话成功。