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Team performance and coordination have gained considerable interest in disparate fields (e.g., aviation, process control, medicine, and wartime operations). Team-Track, a C program that allows controlled experimental manipulation of team conditions, was developed to meet the research needs resulting from this interest. Using Team-Track, one can manipulate task interdependence, team staffing, relative contributions of team members, communications, and informational displays in a low-cost environment. The dependent measure of performance generated by the program is the absolute tracking error along each dimension. The program is ideal for investigating team interactions as it allows for orthogonal manipulation of team variables, therefore accommodating a multitude of research paradigms.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of the following individuals in this research project: Curt Braun, Marci Bruce, and Christina Secrease. The authors would also like to express their gratitude to Kimberly Smith-Jentsch and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.
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Jentsch, F., Bowers, C., Compton, D. et al. Team-Track: A tool for investigating tracking performance in teams. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 28, 411–417 (1996). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200521
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