Professionals' use of video meetings

This research project investigates how participants in video-mediated talk accomplish institutional tasks, what challen­ges they face when doing so, how they compensate for the shortcomings of the video media­tion, and how they accomplish relating to and trusting each other. The overall aim is to explore how video-mediation of interactional practices affects human interaction in general.

The project was launched in 2013, and from January 2017 to June 2021, The Velux Foundations supported the project with a generous grant of 6 million DKK. The project is still running, and because of the Covid19 situation worldwide it is more relevant than ever. In focus right now are the subprojects on how presence is collaboratively achieved, how trust is interactionally co-constructed and how professionals may be better equipped with tools for creating more engaging virtual collaboration.

 

This research project focuses on the practices, consequences and impact of professional use of video mediated interaction on humanity and society – an area which has until recently been understudied. The scope is to describe and discuss how video-mediation of interactional practices affects human interaction in general, and what we can learn from virtual communication practices.

We explore practices for video mediated interaction in three real-life institutional settings: telemedicine, business collaboration and public service. The project represents multidisciplinary research using method triangulation. Data are video recordings of authentic video interaction in professional-professional as well as professional-lay settings.

 

 

Subproject A: Institutional processes and outcomes in video mediated interaction

RQ A1 How do participants to video-mediated interaction accomplish an agenda for the talk?

RQ A2 How do participants to video mediated interaction construct institutional identities?

Subproject B: Video meeting participants' interactional accomplishment of mutual trust

RQ B1: How do participants to VCs align and affiliate with co-participants, and how does this improve our understanding of why participating in VCs could be perceived more difficult than FTF meetings?

RQ B2: Which interactional strategies (e.g. first initiatives, repair, dis­pre­ferred turn design, epistemic adverbs, online commentary, stance management, cross-references, aligned identi­ties) may be identified as means of accomplishing being trusted, or not, and being able to trust, or not, by VC participants?

RQ B3: Do we see differences with respect to action type, turn design, se­quen­tial position, action frequency or content, when it is a new relation being built or it is an 'older' relation?

RQ B4: How can the degree of trust shown in VC interaction be measured?

Subproject C: Challenges, possibilities and the semiotics of place and space in video meetings

RQ C1: Challenges: In what ways do the missing subtle sensory modalities affect VC communication, and how do participants in VC use of spatiomaterial resources to compensate for the missing sensory modalities (lack of eye contact, hearing challenges, lack of common physical place of experience)?      

RQ C2: Possibilities: Which VC affordances enhance interaction (e.g. digital tools and work spaces), and how is interactional efficiency accomplished when different tasks are performed at the same time?

Subproject D: Impact and implications

RQ D1: What does it mean for man to videomeet?

RQ D2: How can findings from multimodal conversation analyses serve as a basis for communication training in organisations that utilize ICT-mediated interaction?

RQ D3: How can findings from all subprojects be disseminated to a wider audience?

 

 

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Researchers

Name Title Phone E-mail
Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen Assistant Professor - Tenure Track +4535337181 E-mail
Bergur Rønne Moberg Associate Professor +4535328371 E-mail
Brian Lystgaard Due Professor +4535335929 E-mail
David Jackson Morris Associate Professor +4535328660 E-mail
Mie Femø Nielsen Professor +4535328356 E-mail

Simon Bierring Lange, PhD Fellow

Funding

Velux Foundation logoThe project is funded with 6 million DKK by the Velux Foundations.

Project period: 2013-2021

PI: Mie Femø Nielsen

Contact

Mie Femø Nielsen
Professor at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics
E-mail: femoe@hum.ku.dk