The Analysis of Decision Making Process in the Discussion

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify how the decision making process is built in the discussion for problem solving. We let some university students taking a communication class carry out the group discussion of the fishbowl style to aim for the problem solving on given topic. One group consists of five or six the students. We record the discussion with audio and video as data and analyze it. Specifically, we annotate the three steps which are the cognition of the problem, the design of solution proposal, choice in the decision making process for the recorded data as three kind of labels. For the annotated data, we analyze how three steps constitute the decision making process, and how the transition of each step influence the discussion. Furthermore, we analysed the participants addressed consensus building on the transition of each step to clarify the action of the designing and the control of the participants for the decision making process. .Keyword decision making process, group discussion, problem-solving, annotation, consensus building