Task, Team, Process: The Development of Shared Representations in an Engineering Design Team

In this chapter we describe the analysis of the development of team mental models in the two engineering design meetings. We present a two-stage model of the development of sharedness in teams, which formed the basis for a communication analysis of both meetings. The transcripts of the meetings were categorised according to underlying cognitive acts and design strategies. We find that the changes of frequencies linked to task-related, team-related and process-related cognitive acts within and between the two meetings were largely consistent with the assumptions of the model.