82 questions from 50 meeting researchers and practitioners

12. Artefacts in meetings

  1. The impact of the physical caracteristics in the meeting room; furniture etc
  • and objects as actants during meetings that steer the process (flipchart, sticky notes) as well as architecture of the meeting
  • table size…
  • Affordances of objects and physical environment
  1. What is the point of a (group) meeting? What can be accomplished through co-presence that can’t be accomplished online or through dyadic interaction?
  • Good question! Maybe also: At which stages of team collaboration are which types of meetings important (e.g. virtual vs. face-to-face)?
  • And what shapes the dynamics that make co-presence productive and when does it result in fragmentation or separation?
  • and, if virtual is the only option, how do we change practice to make that work?
  • What’s the difference between virtual and physical meetings?
    • Good questions but what does that mean exactly? In terms of interaction? in terms of outcomes?
    • The embodied, nonverbal elements of interaction come into play when studying physical meetings.
      • What about virtual proxies of nonverbal behavior such as emoticons?
    • How to study and compare
    • the difference in terms of effectively achieving objectives interests me
    • also, a specific issue is the hybridity of meetings: using several modes at the same time
    • I guess virtual team research shows already quite clearly, that “virtuality” plays only a minor role in natural environments. There is no point in comparing…
      • Do you have a source I could read?
  1. Video mediated meetings
  • I would call this more broadly technology-mediated