A visualization tool for Adaptive Collaboration

Adaptive Collaboration (AC) has been proven and verified to be a promising methodology to conduct collaboration. AC follows an iterative and dynamic process that includes phases of role negotiation, agent evaluation, role assignment, role playing, and role transfer. However, AC is complex, and the benefits of AC are not easily observed. In particular, the benefits must be obtained through complicated computations and should be further presented appropriately, e.g., visualization. This paper proposes an approach to visualizing the benefits of AC in group performance. Such visualization can illustrate how dynamic role assignment performs better than static role assignment. Our research is verified through implementations, a case study, and a usability study.

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