The Influence of Social Information and Self-expertise on Emergent Task Allocation in Virtual Groups

The Influence of Social Information and Self-expertise on Emergent Task Allocation in Virtual Groups

Dynamic group coordination facilitates adaptive division of labor in response to group-level changes. Yet, little is known about how it can be operationalized in online collaborations among individuals with limited information about each other. We hypothesized that simple social information about th...

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Main Authors: Shinnosuke Nakayama, David Diner, Jacob G. Holland, Guy Bloch, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
behavioral plasticity
citizen science
collective behavior
content creation
content curation
crowdsourcing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2018.00016/full

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