Hello ,
Do you know a decision making task in laboratory for groups which completion could take around an hour and which could let room for a lot of interactions between participants ?
Thank you for your help :)
Edouard Giudicelli
Hello, thank you for your interest. I guess i would say a collaborative decision making task for 2 to 3 members groups and not necessarily a economic task. Also not on a computer. Sorry if i'm not specific enough this time also.
In my lectures I use some innocuously looking tasks, such as:
- You have a visitor from ... (some foreign country, I like to stress they are a family, ma, pa, two kids, you imagine) and they have 24 hours to see your city. Prepare a program for them.
- If the group is sufficiently diverse, the task could be how to spend the night on the town (alternatively in a town they might know sufficiently, but is not their home town - such as Frenchmen in Vienna or London, on the cheap, tight budget, set budget, you can play with this).
- Select a restaurant to go for a common celebration - it's good is there are diverse diets in the group, if not, tell someone to play a vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, etc.
I work with groups of three or four and add one person as an observer. You can play with group dynamics, team roles, etc. in these models.
If you know the technique, you can ask the group to work according to the "Convergent decision" technique, otherwise, you can structure the task to brainstorming, elaboration on selected options and final selection.
The group might be put under pressure by limiting the time for start to consensus - an hour works for the full process, 15 minutes puts a lot of load on the group.
I ask all the participant to reflect on the process afterwards, with the observer reporting on the group dynamics and team roles, etc.
you can design some strategic games. for example you can give some "LEGO" to each group and ask them to make a special structure. they can do this separately and then make it to a whole, or do all the task together.
also, you can hide some items in different parts of a room and ask the participants to find them.
I think any task that has been used for multi-agent robots can be useful.
Thanks a lot Asieh Daneshi your answer helped me. In my research participants will have to execute at least three tasks from the McGrath group tasks taxonomy (1984) : decision making, creativity and execution . Building a structure with Legos could be a great execution task
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