“Fraser, C. A., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017, May). WeBuild: Automatically distributing assembly tasks among collocated workers to improve coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1817-1830). ACM.”
The authors propose a novel approach aimed at enhancing the efficiency and collaboration in a group. They develop a system which assigns subtasks to collocated workers. The results of the approach are that it significantly boosted start-up time, however, there wasn’t much difference in the completion time.
To defend the absent significance in completion time, one could argue that the participants of the study were clueless and unaware of the context. Another noteworthy point is that the system assigned subtasks to collocated workers. On the other hand, if a different approach for the selection of the workers had been employed, then maybe results would have been different. For instance, selecting the workers on the basis of skill proficiency and then proximity would boost the completion time as well.
This paper had similarities to my project in the sense that multiple people being assigned tasks and contributing to a bigger picture. Further more I see this idea as an extension to my project where different inclusion or exclusion strategies could serve as ways to enhance the ‘notebase’ or build additional functionality. This paper could also serve as an inspiration to Eddy and Aakash’s idea in the sense that tasks can broken down to guide user subjects towards achieve better results overall.
However, the idea’s applicability on other works must be pondered upon, because the results may not translate on different objects.