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Effect of Different Communication Affordances on the Emergence of Collaboration Strategies in an Online Multiplayer Game

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Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2022)

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In a group, the collective dynamics is governed by the interactions between individuals, which can manifest differently depending on the available means of communication. In this paper, we compare 3 conditions of communication affordances (global chat, local chat and no chat) in an online multiplayer game and investigate their effect on team performance. An experiment involving a total of 108 participants (grouped in teams of 6 players) revealed that while the three conditions allow for the emergence of different communication systems, they yield no significant difference on the time taken to complete the task.

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    This study was approved by our institutions Human Research Ethics Committee with reference number No 022-2021.

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    The average reward was set to 6 £/hr. A bonus incentive was given to groups who finish the fastest.

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    Chosen since the normality assumption of the data is not satisfied.

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This work was supported as a part of NCCR Robotics, a National Centre of Competence in Research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 51NF40_185543). I thank my brothers, colleagues and friends who participated in playing and testing the game.

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    Hala Khodr, Nicolas Wagner, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal & Pierre Dillenbourg

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Khodr, H., Wagner, N., Bruno, B., Kothiyal, A., Dillenbourg, P. (2022). Effect of Different Communication Affordances on the Emergence of Collaboration Strategies in an Online Multiplayer Game. In: Dorigo, M., et al. Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13491. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20176-9_28

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