Selective Sharing is Caring: Toward the Design of A Collaborative Tool to Facilitate Team Sharing

This paper reports on a study utilizing 89 participants engaging in real-world temporary teams to better understand user perceptions of sharing personal information. Qualitative and quantitative results revealed unique findings, including: 1) Users perceived personality and conflict management style assessments to be accurate and sharing these assessments to be helpful but had mixed perceptions regarding the appropriateness of sharing; 2) Users of the collaborative tool had higher perceptions of sharing in terms of helpfulness and appropriateness; and 3) User feedback highlighted the need for tools to selectively share fewer data with more context to improve appropriateness and helpfulness while reducing the amount of time to read.