Development of Method for Visualizing Behavioral States of Teams

Abstract

Visualizing behavioral states of teams is useful when providing effective reflection on teamwork for team members, monitoring and intervening teams, and analyzing team processes for teamwork researchers. This paper aims to develop a method to visualize behavioral states in meeting settings. We assumed that team processes follow several periods where behavioral states are stable and tried to detect these periods by focusing on change of communication patterns and facial expression. Detailed methods of detection and subsequent visualization are provided. We then test our method by comparing visualized team states in an idea generation workshop with qualitative observation of its team process. The result shows our method can effectively express some team states and provides viewpoints for more rigid quantitative verification.

Measuring Characteristics and Influence of Fluctuating Teamwork Processes Based on Natural Language Processing: The Relationship Between Equal Participation and Creativity

“…The accuracy of the survey method depends on the respondents' ability of memory retrieval and is prone to the tendency to remember the peak moment and the last moment [3]. It also treats teamwork as stationary, which is true in only limited cases [4] [5]. Qualitative observation is also prone to subjectivity and is hard to be applied to a large-scale study.…”