Individual and Two-Man Team Target Finding Performance

Abstract

Individuals and two-man teams were tested on three target finding tasks. Effective performance of a target-finding task requires the establishment of an efficient search strategy which minimizes the time taken to find the target. On two of the tasks team performance was no better than would be expected, from normal order statistics, of its more capable member. Team performance on the third task presented evidence of a shift in team search strategy away from independent (or redundant) searching toward a more effective division of labor.