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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 design 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. * 193 ¢
