Questions on My Mind about the Psychology of Cooperation Facilitation

1. What environments require collaboration? Escape rooms, workplaces…
2. How have digital spaces been optimized for collaboration? Figma, Microsoft Teams…
3. How do open vs closed concept spaces influence collaboration?
4. How can competitive environments be used to foster collaboration? Sport arenas, teams vs teams…
5. How can design foster collaboration from people who prefer/tend to sit on the sidelines? I wonder how environment design can be used to inspire confidence or social motivation from all personality types.
6. Which concepts from social architecture can be used to design collaborative spaces?
7. How can support or appreciation for some third thing be used to foster collaboration?
8. How can feeling regulators influence cooperation? I wonder what environmental changes can be made to put people at ease.
9. What are the environments that pull people apart? Mens’ bathroom urinals, bus seats, elevators…
10. How does the size of a space influence whether people will interact? I’d assume that smaller spaces are more likely to bring people closer together and lead to interaction.
11. What environmental elements do people tend to gravitate toward? Natural sunlight, windows, water coolers…
12. What strategies do party hosts use to get people to chat?
13. How do maximalist vs minimalist environments foster conversation? How might the presence of weird objects inspire conversation?
14. How can gamification inspire closeness?
15. How does the amount and type of seating influence conversation? Chairs vs couches, for example.
16. How does the number of people in the room influence conversation? If I walked into a room with only a couple people I could see myself joining into conversation. Three or more people I’d be less likely. Up to the point that there are a large group of people, at which point I’d find it easier to strike up a conversation with someone again.
17. What environments tend to put people at ease? Bars, meetups…
18. What assumptions can you accurately make about a person depending on where they gravitate to in a room?
19. Just as a white lab coat inspired obedience, what type of person might inspire the desire to start a conversation?
20. How might a future AI be able to inspire conversation? I imagine a future where we might have a little AI second brain that we can carry around, have listen to our conversations, and give us little conversational helper ideas for when we struggle to know what to say next.
21. How does the angle to which people face each other impact comfortable conversation? For example, sitting on the same side vs across from each other at a restaurant.
22. How does the ease of potential escape influence how social people act?
23. How does background noise, music, or silence influence conversation?

1. How can design foster collaboration from people who prefer/tend to sit on the sidelines? I wonder how environment design can be used to inspire confidence or social motivation from all personality types.
2. How can feeling regulators influence cooperation? I wonder what environmental changes can be made to put people at ease.
3. What are the environments that pull people apart? Mens’ bathroom urinals, bus seats, elevators…
4. What environmental elements do people tend to gravitate toward? Natural sunlight, windows, water coolers
5. How do maximalist vs minimalist environments foster conversation? How might the presence of weird objects inspire conversation?
6. What assumptions can you accurately make about a person depending on where they gravitate to in a room?
7. Just as a white lab coat inspired obedience, what type of person might inspire the desire to start a conversation?
8. How might a future AI be able to inspire conversation? I imagine a future where we might have a little AI second brain that we can carry around, have listen to our conversations, and give us little conversational helper ideas for when we struggle to know what to say next.