TEAM-TRACK - A TOOL FOR INVESTIGATING TRACKING PERFORMANCE IN TEAMS

Team performance and coordination have gained considerable interest in disparate fields (e.g., aviation, process control, medicine, and wart ime operations). Team-Track, a C program that allows controlled experi mental manipulation of team conditions, was developed to meet the rese arch needs resulting from this interest. Using Team-Track, one can man ipulate task interdependence, team staffing, relative contributions of team members, communications, and informational displays in a low-cos t environment. The dependent measure of performance generated by the p rogram is the absolute tracking error along each dimension. The progra m is ideal for investigating team interactions as it allows for orthog onal manipulation of team variables, therefore accommodating a multitu de of research paradigms.