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Figure 2. Example for a team-meeting interaction
The next text is an example for some selected key-hypothesis about the first
step the video-analysis.
The three participants are in their mid-twenties up to mid-thirties and
dressed rather casually. Their sitting posture and their bodies facing each other
emphasize the impression of an informal, friendly get-together. The room de¬
sign and the spatial allocation of seating accommodations support this reading.
There is no apparent beginning or end of the session marked or recognizable.
During the reunion, that is lacking a concise agenda and task division, it shows
that there exist pronounced hierarchies amongst the participants, which are
not being explicitly marked. Throughout the meeting it is not possible to
visually reconstruct processes of decision-making and completion of topics
can barely be deducted from their body language. It seems to be a melting-pot
of contents that visually — that is through body orientation — doesn’t show a
termination or distinct change of topic. There is also a clear goal orientation
lacking. Time doesn’t seem to be relevant in the reunion e.g. in terms of a
focused execution and completion of the issues. In the session it seems like the
participants are going round in circles topic-wise and they can’t find a solution
or make a decision. Hence, choices are being made fluidly, since negating to
end the discussion is also a decision made and carried out by everybody. The at
times critical atmosphere in the team underlines the exertion that comes with
this fluid decision-making process or premise.
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