Teamwork and adaptation in games (TAG): a survey to gauge teamwork

Teamwork is becoming an important element of gameplay. Many games nowadays incorporate teamwork in one form or another. As a result, many game researchers have investigated aspects of teamwork. However, we have yet to develop effective surveys to gauge how people strategize or problem solve together within different games, and how such games enable these activities. In this paper, we propose the Teamwork and Adaptation in Games (TAG) survey. We developed this survey using theories of team adaptation, a process of how teams work together and adapt their strategies to changes in environments. Through three separate studies, the TAG survey was used to gauge team adaptation. Our results show that the TAG survey is an effective instrument allowing us to gauge team adaptation in different game environments. We further found that the instrument can be effectively used to compare games.