Universita Degli Studi Di Roma |
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Dipartimento di Psicologia del Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione |
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Project Coordinator
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Project Description The project is aimed at exploring discourse in interaction and decision-making processes inside specific communities of practice acting in Virtual Environments. The interacting processes mediated by these technological environments are characterized by the presence of absolutely new practices from the psychosocial and discursive points of view, and for the absence of some communicational practices which are characteristics of face-to-face or differently mediated interactions (I.e. e-mail, videoconferences). In order to study the development of these tools and the possible applications in work settings, we decided to depend their potential by analyzing their distinctive characteristics in terms of communication, interaction, sharing between the members of the communities. The project will comprise two phases, also temporally differentiated: 1. Virtual Meetings: in this second phase we plan to build and experiment a virtual environment for work meetings. We would like to test the efficacy of such an interactive context on meetings where the decision making process could be at the core of the interaction between participants. We will use 3 work groups (composed by 304 members), each for 3 virtual meetings. These data will be analyzed both separately for each group and between groups. An analysis of these experiences will be held with a particular attention paid to the opportunity of using this kind environment for sustaining an effective decision making process during the meetings. 2. The didactical interaction s of small groups of university students chatting in a 3D environment while solving a task part of the university course. Groups of 4 students will be observed via online data recording while chatting in a CVE that allows also a three-dimensional visual interaction. The groups will be differentiated in accordance with the previous chatting expertise of students. The differences between groups will be used in order to analyzed the co-construction of a shared repertoire in different situations: expert chatters, novice chatters, mixed groups of expert and novice chatters. The implications of how a repertoire is built in different conditions will provide indications on the basic conditions of virtual community assessment strategies. The research project implied the comparison between data from the diverse experiences in order to put into evidence stable and characteristic features of the interactive processes among the different communities. | ||
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