Collaborative problem solving in the presence of minority perspectives

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23700325
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: HAYASHI Yugo 立命館大学, 情報理工学部, 助手 (60437085)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 協同問題解決 / 対話エージェント / Human Computer Interaction / コミュニケーション

Research Abstract

This study investigates the influence of minority perspectives on collaborative problem solving performance. To a team of problem solvers, we introduce a simple reasoning task designed to induce a different perspective in one of the team members (Hayashi, Miwa and Morita, 2007). The team then uses a custom chat application to exchange views and suggestions. Results show that the presence of a minority perspective tends to reduce self-consciousness and fixation towards a particular perspective.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 多人数に基づく協同問題 解決に関する実験的研究のためのプラット フォーム開発 (2012)
  • Author(s): 林勇吾,小川均
  • Journal Title: 知能と情報 Volume: 244 Pages: 848-857
  • DOI: DOI:10.3156/jsoft.24.848
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The effect of "Trust dynamics": Perspective taking during collaborative problem solving (2013)
  • Author(s): Hayashi Y.
  • Organizer: 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Berlin(Germany)
  • Year and Date: 2013-08-01
• [Presentation] 多数派と少数派の他者視点理解に 関する実験的検討 (2013)
  • Author(s): 松井隆幸、三輪和久、寺井仁、林勇吾
  • Organizer: 第67回人工知能学会先進的学習科学と工学研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 三翠園(高知県)
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-04
• [Presentation] Exploring egocentric biases in human cognition: An analysis using multiple conversational agents (2012)
  • Author(s): Hayashi Y.
  • Organizer: 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学朱雀キャンパス(京都府)
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-22
• [Presentation] 問題解決状況における多数派と少 数派のコミュニケーション過程 (2012)
  • Author(s): 松井隆幸、林勇吾、三輪和久、寺井仁
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会HCS8月研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学びわこくさつキャンパス(滋賀県)
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-18
• [Presentation] The effect of "Maverick": A study of Group Dynamics on Breakthrough in Collaborative Problem solving、 (2012)
  • Author(s): Hayashi Y.
  • Organizer: 4th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌コンベンションセンター(北海道)
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-04
• [Presentation] Emergence of ideas during collaboration: An experimental study using conversational agent (2011)
  • Author(s): Hayashi Y.
  • Organizer: 1st postgraduate consortium of Innovation in Information and Communication Science and Technology
  • Place of Presentation: Tomsk(Russia)
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-03
• [Presentation] 対話エージェントを用いた集団に よる協同問題解決の支援に関する研究 (2011)
  • Author(s): 林勇吾,Victor V. Kryssanov, 三輪和久,小川均
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学会第28回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学(東京)
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-24
• [Presentation] orientation in communication with a conversational agent (2011)
  • Author(s): Hayashi Y., Huang, H., Kryssanov, V. , Miwa, K., Urao, A., Ogawa, H.
  • Organizer: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Place of Presentation: Reykjavik(Iceland)
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-15