{"pk":28737,"title":"What are you talking about?: A Cognitive Task Analysis of how specificity incommunication facilitates shared perspective in a confusing collaboration task","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how participant’s specificity in shar-ing of information in collaborative problem solving was criti-cal to them reaching a successful shared perspective. We ana-lyzed participants’ communication strategies in a collaborativetask designed to make finding common ground challenging.We set out to better understand the difference between suc-cessful and unsuccessful collaborations by conducting a cog-nitive task analysis. From participants’ utterances, we inferredcognitive processes associated with repeating communicationmoves and coded those processes as if-then production rules.We thereby specified the communication strategies used duringinteractions and developed a production-rule model to explainwhether and how shared perspective developed or not. Ourcognitive task analysis indicated that although all collaboratingpairs described the objects they were seeing with a variety offeatures, the successful pairs were more specific in using com-binations of features. Quantitatively, we found significant cor-relations between frequency of combined feature statementsand success in sharing perspectives.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Collaborative Problem Solving; Scientific Rea-soning; Creativity; Coordination; Cognitive Task Analysis;Production Rules"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41s59946","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yugo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hayashi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ritsumeikan University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenneth","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Koedinger","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28737/galley/18608/download/"}]}