Newly-formed teams often encounter the challenge of members coming together to collaborate on a project without prior knowledge of each other’s working and communication styles. This lack of familiarity can lead to conflicts and misunderstandings, hindering effective teamwork. Derived from research in social recommender systems, team recommender systems have shown the ability to address this challenge by providing personality-derived recommendations that help individuals interact with teammates with differing personalities. However, such an approach raises privacy concerns as to whether teammates would be willing to disclose such personal information with their team. Using a vignette survey conducted via a research platform that hosts a team recommender system, this study found that context and individual differences significantly impact disclosure preferences related to team recommender systems. Specifically, when working in interdependent teams where success required collective performance, participants were more likely to disclose personality information related to Emotionality and Extraversion unconditionally. Drawing on these findings, this study created and evaluated a machine learning model to predict disclosure preferences based on group context and individual differences, which can help tailor privacy considerations in team recommender systems prior to interaction. ... Read more

This paper presents a fully automated system for detecting, classifying, microscopic imaging, and individually identifying multiple parts without ID-marking or tagging. The system is beneficial for product assemblers, who handle multiple types of parts simultaneously. They can ensure traceability quite easily by only placing the parts freely on the system platform. The system captures microscopic images of parts as their "fingerprints," which are matched with pre-registered images in a database to identify an individual part's information such as its serial number. We demonstrate a working prototype and interaction scenario. ... Read more