Learner models are one of the most important parts of any tutoring system. Due to the complexity of social systems, it gets more challenging to track personal data and to build a model of learner’s state when dealing with teams. This research suggests leveraging the available literature on team dynamics to make a system dynamics model of teaming. This model will offer a more accurate representation of the complexity involved. An example system dynamics model of team trust is created based on a previous qualitative study of team trust [3]. Its benefits include a holistic understanding of trust structure in teams, the ability to evaluate and predict trust level in teams given current individual states, and providing a testbed to evaluate multiple remedies to team issues. The authors suggest that using this system dynamics (SD) modeling approach with GIFT as the individual learner model is a valuable initial approach to adding full team functionality to GIFT.
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This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Amin-Naseri, Mostafa, and Stephen Gilbert. "A System Dynamics Approach to Building Team Trust Models: Exploring the Challenges." In: Pedagogy That Makes A Difference: Exploring Domain-Independent Principles across Instructional Management Research within the ITS Community. Proceedings of a Workshop held during The 12th Annual Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2014). 2014, pages 49-55. Posted with permission.