Action request episodes in trauma team interactions in Japan and the UK - A multimodal analysis of joint actions in medical simulation

Grounding is a fundamental human practice for cooperation and collaboration in joint activity, when more than two people interact. Emergency care one such interactive situation, whether trauma team can efficiently establish increment their common ground at an appropriate timing during the complex fluid activity of emergency medical treatment key to maximise collective competence best perform as team. This article investigates recurrent patterns grounding process between leader members, comparing practices Japan UK, using eye-tracking device. The embodied was multimodally described, applying both quantitative multimodal corpus analytic qualitative interactional linguistic approaches. analysis has shown that five episodes reoccurred, most which were ego-centric them ba-centric interactions, drawing on intersubjectivity theory ba Western Eastern philosophy respectively.