The technology of team navigation
Intellectual teamwork
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
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We explore the function of noninstitutionally provided external resources that people working in groups rely on to sequence and synchronize prelearned actions. Through longitudinal observations of a music group learning to cover (i.e., play) other groups' songs, and an analysis of the computational requirements for song covering, we show how simultaneous group activity creates - as a sideeffect - emergent structures that can sequence individual behavior. In short, local activity creates global cues that can then direct local action. We argue that this is not specific to music groups, but that global cues emerge in any simultaneous group activity in which individuals have access to others' on-going performances. We discuss the importance of our results for distributed cognition research, learning in group contexts, and for the design of technological support for collaborative learning.