Wardak2016

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Wardak2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wardak2016
Author(s) Dewa Wardak
Title Gestures orchestrating the multimodal development of ideas in educational design team meetings
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Tag(s) EMCA, Gesture, Design, Teamwork
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Design Studies
Volume 47
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Pages 1–22
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DOI 10.1016/j.destud.2016.08.001
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Abstract

This paper is part of a programme of research on the future of educational design – working on better methods, tools and spaces for design teams. The current paper comes from a study of multimodal communication within small educational design teams. The paper reports a microanalysis of a design team meeting in which the participants reached shared understanding while discussing complex ideas using a range of communicative modes. Gestures played an important coordinating role in this communication process and they are the focus of the paper. Some subtle aspects of intra-team communication may be taken for granted in face-to-face settings and then prove problematic when technological links fail to support a key communications modality.

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