No structure beyond this will be imposed. All members of the conference will meet in the same room, which is equipped with 20 workstations. They will work with the FISH game and interact through the computer conference. However, during their discussion period, they will convene in a breakout room with a circle of chairs and a flipchart for recording ideas. Based on the results of this pretest, they will be classified into sample subsets with cooperative and individualistic orientations.
Subjects fill out a pre-experimental questionnaire.
Subjects will play 10 rounds of FISH game. This is a sufficient number to enable them to learn how the fish resource depletes in the group setting and to help them set a basic strategy. Free discussion via CMC or FTF mode continues for 15 minutes. Discussion in the FTF mode will be videotaped. Discussion is automatically captured by the CMC system.