ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the theoretical and methodological framework known as course-of-action, grounded in the enactive approach that has been used to study interpersonal coordination in teams. An enactive approach, and consequently the course-of-action framework that operationalizes it, always give primacy to the individual subjective analysis, and only then, describe the team coordination. With motion sensors, it is possible to examine the near-sinusoidal interpersonal rhythmic coordination of movement that is described by a motion equation known as the HKB model. The chapter discusses the three approaches namely the social-cognitive, the enactive and the ecological dynamics approaches that have underpinned many studies of team coordination in sport. Although shared knowledge has tended to dominate research on mental models in team behaviour, and is still accepted as a necessary pre-condition for the existence of team coordination, some investigators claim that it needs to be conceptually reformulated and much more carefully defined.