Determining team cognition from delay analysis using cross recurrence plot

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:3482-3485. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591478.

Abstract

Team cognition is an important factor in evaluating and determining team performance. Forming a team with good shared cognition is even more crucial for laparoscopic surgery applications. In this study, we analyzed the eye tracking data of two surgeons during a laparoscopic simulation operation, then performed Cross Recurrence Analysis (CRA) on the recorded data to study the delay behaviour for good performer and poor performer teams. Dual eye tracking data for twenty two dyad teams were recorded during a laparoscopic task and then the teams were divided into good performer and poor performer teams based on the task times. Eventually we studied the delay between two team members for good and poor performer teams. The results indicated that the good performer teams show a smaller delay comparing to poor performer teams. This study is compatible with gaze overlap analysis between team members and therefore it is a good evidence of shared cognition between team members.

MeSH terms

  • Cognition*
  • Eye Movements / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopy / methods*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Patient Care Team*
  • Psychomotor Performance / physiology
  • Surgeons*