Title
Playing with leadership and expertise: military tropes and teamwork in an arg
Abstract
Ad-hoc virtual teams often lack tools to formalize leadership and structure collaboration, yet they are often successful. How does this happen? We argue that the emergence of leadership and the development of expertise occurs in the process of taking action and in direct response to a lack of structure. Using a twinned set of eight modality sliders, we examine the interactions of fourteen players in an alternate reality game. We find that players adopted military language and culture to structure and arrange their play. We determine that it is critical to account for the context of play across these modalities in order to design appropriately for effective in-game virtual organizing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2470654.2470755
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
military trope,effective in-game virtual organizing,alternate reality game,ad-hoc virtual team,structure collaboration,fourteen player,direct response,modality slider,military language,computer supported cooperative work,qualitative research,team work,leadership
Modalities,Teamwork,Computer-supported cooperative work,Computer science,Knowledge management,Qualitative research,Shared leadership
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.55
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tamara Peyton1566.47
Alyson L. Young213110.55
Wayne Lutters3223.07