The Effects of Communication Problems of Interdisciplinary Team on Teamwork Quality of Mobile Game Development

Abstract

Any interdisciplinary team should use good division of labor and effective communication to achieve the team's goals. Since the team members come from different disciplines, it often leads to communication problems and poor results. An empirical study was done with 72 college students from three courses related to mobile game design within a period of 18 weeks. The study focused on what communication problems affected the quality of the resulted games. The results show that the effectiveness of communication and teamwork quality were highly correlated. The factors affecting the quality of the resulted games included developing time, personal skills and work planning. This study found out that the interdisciplinary members of a team lacked a common language, leading to communication problems. It is recommended that such teams need to establish clear goals and learn to solve the problems.