COINs change leaders - Lessons Learned from a Distributed Course
Computers and Society
2013-08-07 v1 Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
Abstract
In this paper we analyze the communication network of 50 students from five universities in three countries participating in a joint course on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Students formed ten teams. Interaction variables calculated from the e-mail archive of individual team members predict the level of creativity of the team. Oscillating leadership, where members switch between central and peripheral roles is the best predictor of creativity, it is complemented by the variance in the amount of sending or receiving information, and by answering quickly, and positive language. We verify our automatically generated creativity metrics with interviews.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.1158,
title = {COINs change leaders - Lessons Learned from a Distributed Course},
author = {Peter A. Gloor and Maria Paasivaara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1158},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Presented at COINs13 Conference, Chile, 2013 (arxiv:1308.1028)