Stephen M. Fiore

Abstract: Given the increased reliance on teams in many organizational settings, it is critical that all those who are interested in improving training and performance better understand team dynamics. During the past decade, cognitive science has substantially influenced the study of team performance and has helped develop the field of team cognition. The contributors to this volume describe the many ways in which team cognition is being used as an organizing framework to guide research into factors that affect team coordination. Nowadays, team cognition must be considered not only within "conventional" teams, but also across time and space in distributed teams, and - because of increased use of artificial team members (e.g., intelligent agents) - across people and machines. All of these complicating factors are considered, along with methodological issues that surround the process of measuring and defining team cognition. The unique blend of theory and data in this multidisciplinary book will be of value to psychologists and academics interested in cognition and organizational behavior, to team researchers and practitioners in Industry and the military, and to graduate students Interested in group processes and performance.

TL;DR: This Commentary proposes a systems perspective that incorporates a mixed-methods approach to SciTS that is commensurate with the conceptual, methodological, and translational complexities addressed within the SciTS field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that interdisciplinary research is team research, that is, research conducted by a team, and they show how it may be possible to consider the implementation of principles from teamwork and team training to improve inter-disciplinary research and the practice of team science.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the empirical findings from the SciTS literature, which center around five key themes: the value of TS, team composition and its influence on TS performance, formation of science teams, team processes central to effective team functioning, and institutional influences on TS.

TL;DR: A model for predicting complex collaborative processes as they arise in one-of-a-kind problem-solving situations to predict performance outcomes is presented and a set of propositions developed to guide research into how teams externalize cognition and build knowledge in service of problem solving are presented.