Authors: Fabio Pianesi Massimo Zancanaro Elena Not Chiara Leonardi Vera Falcon Bruno Lepri
Publish Date: 2007/03/14
Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 181-195
Abstract
The complexity of group dynamics occurring in small group interactions often hinders the performance of teams The availability of rich multimodal information about what is going on during the meeting makes it possible to explore the possibility of providing support to dysfunctional teams from facilitation to training sessions addressing both the individuals and the group as a whole A necessary step in this direction is that of capturing and understanding group dynamics In this paper we discuss a particular scenario in which meeting participants receive multimedia feedback on their relational behaviour as a first step towards increasing selfawareness We describe the background and the motivation for a coding scheme for annotating meeting recordings partially inspired by the Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis This coding scheme was aimed at identifying suitable observable behavioural sequences The study is complemented with an experimental investigation on the acceptability of such a service
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