TRELA: development of a visual recording tool for collaborative GRSs dynamics

Abstract

The development of Graphic Representations for Synthesis (GRSs) on classrooms is a system of collective actions and interactions for the visual synthesis of knowledge. However, it is difficult to observe its group construction from an external position. In order to allow an internal mediated data collection, through a rapporteur within the group, and to obtain an expressive and intimate vision on the main moments of the GRSs construction, this study proposes the creation of a visual recording tool. For such, two experimentations with visual recording methods were made with third-year undergraduate Design students, from UFPR. Each one allowed adapting and refining the methods, which guided the creation of a hybrid-recording tool, to be validated hereafter.