The big five and visualisations of team work activity

  • Authors:
  • Judy Kay;Nicolas Maisonneuve;Kalina Yacef;Peter Reimann

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;Research Centre for Computer-supported Learning and Cognition, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ITS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We have created a set of novel visualisations of group activity: they mirror activity of individuals and their interactions, based upon readily available authentic data. We evaluated these visualisations in the context of a semester long software development project course. We give a theoretical analysis of the design of our visualizations using the framework from the “Big 5” theory of team work as well as a qualitative study of the visualisations and the students' reflective reports. We conclude that these visualisations provide a powerful and valuable mirroring role with potential, when well used, to help groups learn to improve their effectiveness.