CHALLENGES OF GROUP COMMUNICATION

Describe your group’s communication efforts. Did you find yourself communicating ideas more often through drawing, talking, writing, or something else? What role did sharing references or other examples play, if any? What aspect of your design concept presented the greatest challenges to communication within your group? What aspect presented the least challenge?

Our group consists of four very charismatic and enthusiastic people from different backgrounds. Nikita and Alan show and communicate in a deep and clear way their common interest in Arts and Design. Robert expresses himself in a very confident way the skills and experience he has gained in the architecture world. I, Alejandro, are trying to contribute my grain of sand from the Computer Science point of view, while holding a very deep and passionate interest in studying how to learn and develop new skills in the amazing backgrounds of the different members of my group.

After exchanging the schedules of all four group members, we managed without any problems to setup a proper meeting Saturday January 27th 2007 around 17:00p.m. The photographs on the previous post show in a very clear way how we used the white boards, the sketchpads as well as a webcam.

We used the white board to draw and write all the different ideas that the group proposed and then established the different relations within the points of view. We then talked about possible scenarios where we could present our ideas and found interesting results.

After the meeting each member of the group proceeded to ride the bus and contribute to the recording, satisfying the goal we set out to achieve (please read the posts below).

Once the recordings were recollected we met one more time in a coffee shop to draw the pertinent conclusions and present the data. During this meeting we shared a lot of personal experiences, as well as individual projects that we have presented throughout our careers.

We thought of showing how the data recollected in such a way that it simulated the life of a bus driver, but choose not to present because it might offend somebody. On another note we tried to mimic the behavior of a metronome representing each period from this device by the opening and closing of the doors from the bus.

The greatest challenge to communication within the group was the interpretation of the recording we recollected previously. It was quite a remarkable experience when we had to reach a personal common ground of interpretation. We all shared our ideas, and slowly but surely we came closer to obtain a final solution that satisfied all our expectations. (please read post below)

The smallest challenge to communication within the group was the coordination and synchronization of the different activities the project required. It was fairly easy