Team Modelling: Review of Experimental Scenarios and Computational Models

Defense Research and Development Canada DRDC Toronto is in the process of developing team research scenarios aimed at supporting the Canadian Forces CF future integrated operations, and interoperability with allies, other government departments OGDs and non-government organizations NGOs. This work falls within a 4-year Applied Research Project ARP to include a literature review of relevant team literature, the creation of a platform for conducting experiments on teams, the running of team experiments using a scenario involving one or more Human Systems Integration HSI interventions, the development of a computational model of team performance, and some preliminary validation of this model. Previous reports Sartori, Waldherr and Adams, 2006 Go, Bos and Lamoureux, 2006 have reported the outcomes of exhaustive literature reviews on team research and team research platforms respectively. This report describes the outcomes of two parallel streams of work. The first stream was the development of three team experimental scenarios, in a domestic operational context, appropriate for studying the targeted teamwork factors i.e. teams-of-teams, joint, interagency, distributed environment. This was done by identifying and reviewing scenarios used previously in team research, leveraging concepts important to team research scenarios identified by the literature review, and incorporating knowledge of future CF requirements in new, composite team research scenarios. The second objective of this report was to evaluate a variety of computational modelling applications for their adequacy in modelling the targeted teams in the targeted scenarios, and to recommend one application as the most suitable. This report provides detail regarding the different scenarios and computational models evaluated, and provides direction for the further development of scenarios to suit the detailed requirements of the ARP.