Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Review III. Research (2)

This post is going to show the finding on research question 1, "How do visual thinkers interact with the dynamic context?". The “Characteristics”, “Techniques”, and “Roles/functions” of the Visual Thinkers in group sessions will be represented in detail.



Research question 1, "How do visual thinkers interact with the dynamic context?".


To answer the research question 1, “How do Visual Thinkers interact with the dynamic context?”, the coded phrases were categorized in three groups, “Characteristics”, “Techniques”, “Roles/functions”.


The coded phrases of each group were mapped on a two-dimensional map, which emphasizes the diverse inclination of a Visual Thinker in sessions.


The result of the two-dimensional map is three posters with the categorized coded phrases. These three posters are composed on the groups of “Characteristics”, “Techniques”, “Roles/functions”. The above is the "Characteristics" poster.


Each category in the "Characteristics" poster is defined with a term, for example, "Empathetic", "Active", and "Honest". The terms of the "Characteristics" are shown on the table above. “Techniques” and “Roles/functions” posters are also processed in the same procedures.


All of the three tables are finally integrated into one table which features the relationships of “Characteristics”, “Techniques”, and “Roles/functions”. A visual translation of the table is presented as the following.



In Visual Thinking sessions, Visual Thinkers have to be rational and square to convince people and to be sensitive and flexible enough to understand people’s true expectations.


In the relations of the techniques, Visual Thinkers use the logical thinking to lead session participants with clear pictures in the left hand side, like a grown man. And in the right hand side, Visual Thinkers are like a curious girl to discover inspirations and support people.


On the left hand side, it is a logical output to translate the logical thinking into convincing and clear drawings in order to lead sessions to correct direction.


The essence of the logical output indicates that Visual Thinkers compose systematic and organized drawings to convince and challenge participants, which represents fairly the value of “Truth Teller”.


On the right hand side, it is an empathetic output to surface people’s expectations and to trigger their inspirations and actions.


The essence of the empathetic output indicates that Visual Thinkers use empathy to find out participants’ motivation and inspire them with proper drawings, which is in line with the function of “Passion Trigger”.


From right to left, it is an inside-out process to process received data into systematic and organized thinking.


The essence of the inside-out process indicates that Visual Thinkers’ nature is to actively support discussion and thinking flow in sessions, which meets the description of “Discussion Supporter”.


From left to right, is an outside-in process to read people’s thinking, body language, and the group dynamic to understand their intentions and to gain key triggers.


The essence of the outside-in process indicates that Visual Thinkers utilize their all sensory to receive explicit and implicit information in order to follow the dynamic context, which fits the description of “Sensitive Balancer”.


The visual translation above expresses how Visual Thinkers interact with session participants by their characteristics, techniques, and roles/functions. It implies a balanced mind between the right-sided and left-sided brain which eventually physically and mentally activate session participants thinking to a practical and creative vision or solution.

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