Collaborative Remembering Sequences

Bietti, L.M. (2020). Collaborative remembering sequences. In B. Wagoner, I. Bresco & S. Zadeh (Eds.), Memory in the Wild (pp. 223-250). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Preprint here. 

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to present a unit of analysis (collaborative remembering sequences) that enables us to capture the multiplicity of embodied, social and material resources animating collaborative remembering in the wild. Collaborative remembering sequences (CRSs) allow us to analyze those moments in which people remember with other people in everyday environments. CRSs are an ecologically valid tool to identify and analyze in a systematic fashion when and how people remember together. 

Special issue: Remembering with Others

Remembering with Others: Conversational Dynamics and Mnemonic Outcomes

Editors: Lucas Bietti & Charles Stone

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765/2019/11/4

Editors’ Introduction: Remembering With Others: Conversational Dynamics and Mnemonic Outcomes

Lucas M. Bietti & Charles B. Stone

Pages: 592-608 [OA] https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12443

Memory at the Sharp End: The Costs of Remembering With Others in Forensic Contexts

Lorraine Hope & Fiona Gabbert

Pages: 609-626.https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12357

The Mnemonic Consequences of Jurors’ Selective Retrieval During Deliberation

Alexander C. V. Jay, Charles B. Stone, Robert Meksin, Clinton Merck, Natalie S. Gordon & William Hirst

Pages: 627-643. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12435

Communication in Theory and Research on Transactive Memory Systems: A Literature Review.

Vesa Peltokorpi & Anthony C. Hood

Pages: 644-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12359

Features of Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Memory Conversations in Long‐Married Couples.

Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton & Greg Savage

Pages: 668-686.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12350

Social Transmission of False Memory in Small Groups and Large Networks

Raeya Maswood & Suparna Rajaram

Pages: 687-709. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12348

Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking  

Lucas M. Bietti, Ottilie Tilston & Adrian Bangerter

Pages: 710-732 [OA]. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358

Collaborative Remembering in Conversational Narration

Neal R. Norrick

Pages: 733-751.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12378

Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Natalie Merrill, Jordan A. Booker & Robyn Fivush

Pages: 752-773.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12356

From Conversations to Digital Communication: The Mnemonic Consequences of Consuming and Producing Information via Social Media

Charles B. Stone & Qi Wang

Pages: 774-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12369

The Social Function of Autobiographical Stories in the Personal and Virtual World: An Initial Investigation

Nicole Alea, Susan Bluck, Emily L. Mroz & Zanique Edwards

Pages: 794-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12370

An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Collaborative Remembering?

Federica Amici

Pages: 811-816. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12398

Reflections and Comments on Research on Memory and Conversation From an Ethnographic Perspective

Nils Dahlbäck, Mattias Forsblad & Lars‐Christer Hydén

Pages: 817-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12399

Memory, Narrative, and the Consequences

Jens Brockmeier

Pages: 821-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12412

Knowing, Remembering, and Relating to Others Online: A Commentary

Michael J. Baker & Françoise Détienne

Pages: 825-830.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12423

Reflections on Conversations and Memory

Travis G. Cyr & William Hirst

Pages: 831-837. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12437

Cultural transmission in a food preparation task: The role of interactivity, innovation and storytelling

Bietti LM, Bangerter A, Knutsen D, Mayor E (2019) Cultural transmission in a food preparation task: The role of interactivity, innovation and storytelling. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0221278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221278

Abstract

Interactive conversation drives the transmission of cultural information in small groups and large networks. In formal (e.g. schools) and informal (e.g. home) learning settings, interactivity does not only allow individuals and groups to faithfully transmit and learn new knowledge and skills, but also to boost cumulative cultural evolution. Here we investigate how interactivity affects performance, teaching, learning, innovation and chosen diffusion mode (e.g. instructional discourse vs. storytelling) of previously acquired information in a transmission chain experiment. In our experiment, participants (n = 288) working in 48 chains with three generations of pairs had to learn and complete a collaborative food preparation task (ravioli-making), and then transmit their experience to a new generation of participants in an interactive and non-interactive condition. Food preparation is a real-world task that it is taught and learned across cultures and transmitted over generations in families and groups. Pairs were defined as teachers or learners depending on their role in the transmission chain. The number of good exemplars of ravioli each pair produced was taken as measurement of performance. Contrary to our expectations, the results did not reveal that (1) performance increased over generations or that (2) interactivity in transmission sessions promoted increased performance. However, the results showed that (3) interactivity promoted the transmission of more information from teachers to learners; (4) increased quantity of information transmission from teachers led to higher performance in learners; (5) higher performance generations introduced more innovations in transmission sessions; (6) learners applied those transmitted innovations to their performance which made them persist over generations; (7) storytelling was specialized for the transmission of non-routine, unexpected information. Our findings offer new insights on how interactivity, innovation and storytelling affect the cultural transmission of complex collaborative tasks.

Collaborative remembering at work

Bietti, L.M. & Baker, M.J. (2018). Collaborative remembering at work. Interaction Studies, 19 (3), 459-486.  https://doi.org/10.1075/is.17010.bie. Preprint here. 
                                              

Abstract

Collaborative remembering is essential to enabling teams to build shared understanding of projects and their progress. This article presents an analysis of collaborative remembering sequences in a corpus of interactions collected in a workplace where a team of designers developed a video television commercial. On the basis of coding and analysing linguistic and bodily behaviors in 158 such sequences, extracted from over 45 hours of video recordings, recurrent patterns of collaborative remembering processes were identified, relating to the interplay of work roles. This article shows that collaborative remembering in the design studio is structured by behavioural, interactive and social factors.

Memory bias toward emotional information in burnout and depression

Bianchi, R., Laurent, E., Schonfeld, I.S., Bietti, L. M., & Mayor, E. (2018). Memory bias toward emotional information in burnout and depression. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318765621

Abstract

A sample of 1015 educational staff members, exhibiting various levels of burnout and depressive symptoms, underwent a memory test involving incident encoding of positive and negative words and a free recall task. Burnout and depression were each found to be associated with increased recall of negative items and decreased recall of positive items. Results remained statistically significant when controlling for history of depressive disorders. Burnout and depression were not related to mistakes in the reported words, or to the overall number of recalled words. This study suggests that burnout and depression overlap in terms of memory biases toward emotional information.

Multimodal processes of joint remembering in complex collaborative activities

Bietti, L.M. & Baker, M.J. (2018). Multimodal processes of joint remembering in complex collaborative activities. In M. Meade, A. Barnier, P. van Bergen, C. B. Harris & J. Sutton (eds.), Collaborative remembering: Theories, Research and Applications (pp. 177-196). New York: Oxford University Press.

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to expand research on joint remembering into real- world complex collaborative activities at the workplace. In order to do so, we aim to show how a substantial part of the joint remembering in complex collaborative activities takes place outside the verbal domain. We illustrate how the interweaving of verbal, corporal, social, and material resources supports joint remembering of relevant aspects of work projects during group interactions. Here we focus on those interactional sequences concerning past actions and events, in relation to work projects, that are triggered by questions acting as reminders. We call such sequences collaborative remembering sequences (CRSs). Our qualitative microanalysis of CRSs deals with cases of “real world” organizational remembering. The group interactions that we present as illustrative examples to support our theoretical standpoint were taken from a corpus collected on the basis of two naturalistic studies following a joint remembering collaborative design that we conducted with architects and animation designers at their workplaces.

Ethnomethodogical studies of nurse-patient and nurse relative interactions. A scoping review

Mayor, E. & Bietti, L.M. (2017). Ethnomethodogical studies of nurse-patient and nurse relative interactions. A scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Studies. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.01.015

Abstract

Researchers in nursing science interested in the study of nurse-patient and nurse-relative interactions have displayed an ever increasing interest in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. This review assesses the scope of this literature. We categorize the papers in thematic categories determined both inductively and deductively and synthesize the main findings of this literature within category. Finally we discuss the interactional determinants of the lack patient participation, the limitations of the field, and focus on implications.

Collaborating to remember collaborative design: An exploratory study

Bietti, L.M. & Baker, M.J. (2016). Collaborating to remember collaborative design: An exploratory study. Memory Studies, 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/1750698016683438.

Abstract: We examine the ways in which members of a small group coordinate their memories, bodies and language in a functional and goal-oriented manner when they are co-designing their dream house and then collaborative remembering that previous interactive encounter. Our analyses show the following: (1) participants structured collaborative design and collaborative remembering sessions in different ways (e.g. linear and sequential vs iterative and hierarchically structured, respectively); (2) higher degrees of knowledge building were temporally synchronized with higher degrees of interactivity during both tasks; (3) collaborative remembering did not only follow the spatial structure of successive elements of the dream-house design session, but it was also proceeded by associations between semantic elements of the discourse; and (4) participants collaboratively remember better what initially generated most joint activity during collaborative design. This research thus contributes to understanding of collaborative remembering processes with respect to a knowledge-rich collaborative task.

Joint remembering in collaborative design: a multimodal approach in the case of a video design studio

Bietti, L.M., Baker, M. J., & Detienne, F. (in press). Joint remembering in collaborative design: A multimodal approach in the case of a video design studio. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. DOI:10.1080/15710882.2015.1103752

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore the role of joint remembering in collaborative design. Joint remembering sequences are identified on the basis of questions that act as triggers to specific interactive sequences. The sequences are situated in the ongoing collaborative design process, and empirical evidence is provided that illustrates how the interweaving of verbal, bodily, social and material resources supports joint remembering. Three examples of joint remembering sequences in co-design are analysed from a corpus of interactions (45+ hours of audio and video recording), collected during an observational study of a team of four 3D designers working on a TV commercial. This study suggests that questions acting as reminders foster the formation of multimodal remembering sequences (MRSs) that connect multiple timescales over the duration of co-design projects. In the corpus under study, MRSs enable designers to plan future actions and make decisions on the fly.

Special issue: Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Table of Contents

Coordination,Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Federica Amici and Lucas M. Bietti

vii – xii

I do not understand but I care: The prosocial dog

Juliane Bräuer

341 – 360

Cooperation in primates: A critical, methodological review

Anna Albiach-Serrano

361 – 382

The evolution and development of human cooperation

Federica Amici

383 – 418

Interacting to remember at multiple timescales: Coordination, collaboration, cooperation and culture in joint remembering

Lucas M. Bietti and John Sutton

419 – 450

Collaboration in collaborative learning

Michael J. Baker

451 – 473

Coordination in language: Temporality and time-ranging

Stephen J. Cowley and Sune Vork Steffensen

474 – 494

Agreeing is not enough: The constructive role of miscommunication

Johanne Stege Bjørndahl, Riccardo Fusaroli, Svend Østergaard and Kristian Tylén

495 – 525

Nonverbal interaction patterns in the Delhi Metro: Interrogative looks and play-faces in the management of interpersonal distance

Martin Aranguren

526 – 552

Insights into coordination, collaboration, and cooperation from the behavioral and cognitive sciences: A commentary

Alan Cienki

553 – 560

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