Team Dynamics
At SaberLab, we study how high-performing teams make decisions, communicate, and adapt to contextual changes. By combining behavioural science with sabermetrics-inspired analytics, we decode the patterns that drive effective teamwork under pressure and provide actionable insights for teams everywhere.
Team Dynamics in Military Critical Care Air Transport
This project investigates how cognitive engineering and behavioural science can improve patient care and safety for U.S. Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT) operating in high-risk, resource-limited environments. Led by an international team of experts in simulation, human factors, and military medicine, the research is optimizing task flow and embedding just-in-time coaching to support team performance under pressure in a fully functional aircraft simulator. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, improve team coordination, and shorten time to task completion in scenarios involving combat-related casualty evacuation. Findings will inform scalable training protocols for safer, faster, and more reliable CCATT operations during large-scale, multi-domain missions.
Funded by: U.S. Airforce and Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Distributed Cognition in Cancer Care Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs)
There is an urgent need to understand and improve decision-making in hybrid multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), particularly in cancer care where complex judgments are made under time pressure and uncertainty. As MDTs increasingly adopt hybrid formats, new risks emerge around communication, information flow, and team cohesion. These environments are particularly susceptible to cognitive biases that can compromise the quality and equity of clinical decisions. This project aims to identify how these biases emerge, how they are influenced by team structure and setting, and how they can be mitigated by technological debiasing by applying cognitive ethnography and principles of distributed cognition.
Funded by: The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer
