Teaming Up: How Technologies and Networks Can Support Us Assemble More Effective Teams
Visiting speaker
Diego Gómez-Zará
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Past Talk
Hybrid
Friday
Nov 22, 2024
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11:00 am
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In this talk, I will present some of our recent projects and studies analyzing how technologies and network science can support team formation. First, we will show how individuals’ decisions of collaborators are influenced by their social networks. We conducted a field study with more than 800 participants, examining how they formed teams and picked their collaborators. Second, we will present the results of a laboratory experiment testing how algorithms can orchestrate different team compositions by altering the order of recommendations. Lastly, we will analyze how their social capital and networks can explain scientific teams’ disruption. These studies contribute to a better understanding of how team composition and formation influence their performance and cohesion.

About the speaker
About the speaker
Professor Gómez-Zará’s research focuses on how social computational systems help people organize and collaborate. His work has been at the forefront of computational social science, human-computer interaction, and network science. His recent publications include work in recommender systems, team formation, team formation, diversity, and virtual reality. This research has won best paper awards at top conferences in human-computer interaction, including CHI, CSCW, and IUI. His research was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, DARPA, National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, Amazon Research, and Slack Inc.
Professor Gómez-Zará’s research focuses on how social computational systems help people organize and collaborate. His work has been at the forefront of computational social science, human-computer interaction, and network science. His recent publications include work in recommender systems, team formation, team formation, diversity, and virtual reality. This research has won best paper awards at top conferences in human-computer interaction, including CHI, CSCW, and IUI. His research was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, DARPA, National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, Amazon Research, and Slack Inc.