Paper Info
Title
Understanding the Effects of Profile Display in Multilingual Computer-Mediated Team Formation
Abstract
ABSTRACTCollaborating across language barriers is cognitively, communicatively and socially taxing, which may disincentivize people to continue working in a language-diverse team after experiencing it. It remains unclear how socially displaying potential collaborators’ language and personal profiles in advance may affect multilingual team formation especially in computer-mediated virtual environments. We conducted an online study with native English speakers and native Japanese speakers in Gather Town. Participants were asked to form teams and complete a slogan generation task under one of the following conditions - no profile display, constant profile display, and adaptive profile display to supplement language and personal cues. We studied how participants’ searching cost for partners and their attitude towards multilingual teamwork shifted under these conditions. Our findings reveal the use of different team formation strategies depending on language backgrounds and profile display designs. We seek to understand language-technological effects on team formation, and explore designs to facilitate multilingual diversity in online teamwork.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3500868.3559458
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Angela Rodolico100.34
Qingxiaoyang Zhu201.01
Naomi Yamashita325127.56
Hao-Chuan Wang429645.80